Why are we still infantilising women in fiction?
I know, I know, that’s a horribly click-bait article header, isn’t it? Bear with me? First, a writing update. As I am still waiting to hear on the three projects out on sub, and had a moderately event-full January, I haven’t done much writing so far this year. As I wrote about last time, I’ve…
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Story prompts for short fic January (and maybe February, who knows)
Welcome to 2026! Yes, I know we’re over half way through but family life has been busy so I’m only just getting back into the swing of things now, with a slightly panicked feeling that this month is being swallowed up so fast! As I think I mentioned in… a previous post somewhere, I’m taking…
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Holiday book recommendations – gifts, reading and feeding the tbr pile
Happy omg there’s only two weeks to Christmas to all who celebrate! Those of you who’ve been with me for a while will know I don’t like doing ‘Best of’ or ‘Top reads’ type lists because they’re so subjective and I don’t really want to rank my favs from my friends, heroines and peers. What…
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Book launches – survival, celebration and chocolate
Hello fellow creatures. I usually write a ‘the story behind the book’ post around publication day, but I feel like I’ve chatted a lot about The Salt Oracle over the last year either here or on my mothballed Substack, both in free and in paid posts. So what else around book publication time might be…
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The books behind the book – diving into the stories & history that inspired The Salt Oracle
Updates from the writing cave: Since I last posted here, I have finished the first draft of the strange and challenging parallel world book that I began over the summer. I’ve done a quick first pass tidy up of it and have now shelved it to work on other things while it thinks about what…
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This is a new low (publishing version)
[Edit: I wrote this post a few weeks back but delayed publishing because of the move from Substack to Patreon. A few things have changed, namely going on sub with Birds and feeling hopeful about that. But I think it’s still important to share this article as it was when I wrote it, so… ta…
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