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April 12, 2023

See You At The Reconnect Eastercon In Belfast During April 2025

Everyone voted Belfast for the 2025 location of the Reconnect Eastercon. Early bird tickets are available at a discounted price until the end of May. It'll be held at the Hilton Lanyon Place and the Belfast ICC April 18-21, 2025. So excited to see you all there! "Reconnect’s guests of honour will be Lauren Beukes, [...]

April 5, 2023

I’ll Be At The 2023 Cheltenham Science Festival

Super honoured to be a part of Cheltenham Science Festival this year. Physicist Jim Al-Khalili will be talking to me and, visual effect expert, Paul Franklin about The Nature of Time in Science Fiction. Join us in the Main Hall on Saturday the 10th of June 2023 at 6:15pm. See you there! "Whether it’s Back [...]

December 14, 2022

Cover Reveal And Interview Via Gizmodo For New Novel Bridge Out August 2023

I have a new book coming out in August 2023! It's called Bridge, a reverse-Persephone about a daughter trying to solve the mystery of her dead mother across the multiverse. Gizmodo was kind enough to host the cover reveal and a spoiler-free interview. "It’s a reality-bending thriller about mothers and daughters, dangerous obsessions and the [...]

November 5, 2022

Joining Barcelona’s Festival 42 This Weekend For Talks & Meets

Hola! This week I'm in Barcelona at the all-things-fantasy Festival 42 at the Fabra i Coats. This evening I'm joining a group talk titled Cardinal points for a map of the world: the international voices of Festival 42 - myself, Aliette de Bodard, Christian Guay-Poliquin, Cat Rambo and Lavie Tidhar chat about our works in fantasy [...]

October 27, 2022

The Shining Girls, Violence In Media And Talking Book To Screen Process With NPR

Throwback to when NPR interviewed me in 2013 for The Shining Girls. We talk writing and researching, the violence depictions in the book (read the related post All The Pretty Corpses on violence in pop culture), optioning the adaptation for TV and I read an excerpt from The Shining Girls. A snippet from the interview: [...]

October 19, 2022

Talking Parenting Across The Multiverse On The Living While Feminist Podcast

I get personal with the wonderful Jen Thorpe on her podcast Living While Feminist. We talk about all things parenting, the Apple TV adaptation of The Shining Girls, Afterland, my new upcoming novel Bridge and so much more. Here's a quote from the interview about my upcoming book Bridge, which I am super excited to unleash [...]

October 12, 2022

Revisiting The Guardian’s ‘Authors On Their Scariest Creations’ For The Spookiest Season

Alison Flood at The Guardian put together a very cool collection of thoughts from authors on their most spine-chilling creations. Such an honour to be featured alongside some horror writing legends. Billie from Afterland is a very particular kind of scary - the kind of scary that is actually out there in the real world [...]

October 5, 2022

Signing Books And Talking Growing Up Geeky At Barcelona’s Gigamesh

Science-fiction, fantasy, genre and high concept [books] are a way of exploring reality and [...] hectic social issues in a way that's like a distorting mirror. You look through the mirror and it allows you to see things more clearly [...] It's a way of exploring very real social issues but with a very light [...]