I write fiction and non-fiction for a range of audiences. I am a writer for hire: if you’d like to commission me, please contact me using the form (or direct message on LinkedIn).
My non-fiction interests primarily lie in history, pop culture, the built environment and equalities – I especially love a brief that ticks all of those! I’ve written for the New Statesman and Restless Magazine. I can also write business blogs and content, and offer advice and support in writing plain English. I can also do copy edits on technical subjects that are being published as reports, plans or online content.
I’ve written novels, novellas and short fiction. These include professional genre work set in shared worlds such as Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes and non-genre work. You can read or buy some of my material below.
Fiction
Echo Beach is a flash fiction story published online by Flash Fiction Magazine (January 2022). Read it online for free.
Crossroads is a short story in Quay Voices #1: New writing from Quay Words, edited by Helen Chaloner (Impress Books, 2021).
Strays, a comic strip with art by Lee Kennedy, is reprinted in The Girly Comic Book vol 1 (Factor Fiction, 2008).
Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes
Holmes and the Indelicate Widow is available in The Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, edited by George Mann (Titan Books, 2013).
Sovereign, a short story, is available in Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus (Obverse Books, May 2009).
The Bad Blood Diaries, a novella, is available in Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Vampire Curse (Big Finish, December 2008).
Gudok, a short story, is in Doctor Who: Short Trips – Transmissions (Big Finish, July 2008).
Cabinets of Curiosities, a short story, is in Bernice Summerfield: Collected Works (Big Finish, September 2006).
Faction Paradox: Warring States (Mad Norwegian Press, 2005). Available as an eBook with bonus material. Go to Mad Norwegian Press to learn more.
Doctor Who: History 101 (BBC Books, 2002). Available secondhand. Please don’t download pirate PDFs.
Non-fiction
You can see some of my clippings at clippings.me.
The Power of Embracing Red (Restless Magazine, October 2019)
The Exeter problem: Smaller cities need huge changes to their transport systems, too. (CityMetric, September 2019)
The temporary Commons chamber is a missed opportunity to change Britain’s political culture (New Statesman, May 2019)
Where is Line of Duty set? On a plausible liminal city (CityMetric, April 2019)
Earlier work
Scheherazade and Galahad in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks is available in Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who. Edited by L.M. Myles and Liz Barr. (Mad Norwegian Press, 2015)
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Professor Layton and the Passive Princess is available in Chicks Dig Gaming, edited by Jennifer Brozek, Robert Smith? and Lars Pearson. (Mad Norwegian Press, 2014)
Seven to Doomsday: the non-domestication of Doctor Who is available in Chicks Unravel Time, edited by Deb Stannish and LM Miles. (Mad Norwegian Press, 2012)