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• October 31, 2024

  No tricks, just treats

  The supermarket aisles are laden with foil-wrapped candies. Shopping malls are decked out with sparkly lights and festive displays. You’ve been receiving email reminders about the big day for months. And now it’s finally here. Happy Christmas! Ha, no, of course it’s Goth Christmas – or Halloween, if you’re so inclined. To celebrate, Slay Ride…
• September 22, 2024

  Out in the wild

  After four years of writing, editing, and procrastination, The Rules of Time Travel is out now in paperback and for Kindle. Every launch is a big deal, but let me tell you a bit about why this one means so much to me. People often ask writers where their ideas come from. I never have…
• February 22, 2024

  Video game vibes

  These days I’m a casual gamer, if at all. If I’m in the mood, I enjoy a resource-management game – you know, running a pizza parlour, chopping sushi, something like that. But back in the day I’d happily immerse myself in a classic puzzle-adventure. Broken Sword is the one that stays with me most. A…
• December 14, 2023

  The Christmas adverts

  What’s Christmas without a bit of capitalism, eh? Over the last few years in the UK, Christmas adverts have become a big thing. You’ve barely tidied away the remains of carved pumpkin and John Lewis, M&S, and even Lidl are telling you to get excited because it’s barely a month before this year’s advert drops.…
• September 29, 2023

  Earlier every year

  Not so very far from where I grew up there was a year-round Christmas shop. No matter the season, you could go there and buy candy canes, chintzy baubles, crackers… you name it, it was there. As we’d drive past on a baking hot summer’s day. I’d look at the fake-snow dusted windows, the dancing…