Just under two weeks to go until SQUEAKY CLEAN is out in the world! To send it on its way there will be a launch event at Mount Florida Books in the southside of Glasgow on 2nd March (publication day). I’ll be speaking to the excellent Elle Nash, author of Animals Eat Each Other (404 … More SQUEAKY CLEAN launch night at Mount Florida Books w/ Elle Nash
My new short story FILL TO THE LINE: INSIDE SCOTLAND’S INSTANT NOODLE MUSEUM is now free to read in The Instant Noodle Literary Review Issue One! This was a really fun story to write. As soon as I saw a call for story submissions on the subject of instant noodles I knew I had to … More Read FILL TO THE LINE in the Instant Noodle Literary Review
A year ago I was emailed by renowned sci-fi author Michael Cobley to ask if I would contribute a story to an anthology he was curating. It was to be a celebration of all things cyberpunk, released on the 38th anniversary of the publication of Neuromancer, one of my all time favourite novels. Of course, … More Read FOREVER IN SCOTLAND in Night, Rain, And Neon
It’s over twenty degrees in Scotland. Go to the park. Take a book. One of these: The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong (2020, Picador) I’m gonna be straight here from the off: I was a 00’s-era grunger in high school. Band hoodies, ludicrously baggy jeans, moon boot skate shoes, questionable taste for rap metal, the … More Reading Roundup May 2021
I’m stoked to say I’ll be heading back to Edinburgh next month because I’ve been given a slot at Cymera Festival’s open mic! Scotland’s first ever literary festival dedicated to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writing is taking place at The Pleasence in Edinburgh from 7th-9th June. As well as readings and talks from some of … More Cymera Festival Open Mic
At the end of 2018 I wrote an article for The Glasgow Review of Books where I selected three of my favourite reads of the year – GRB ask this of all contributors and they published my short story There’s a Joab Oan back in September (which you can still read here.) Picking just three … More Reads of the Year 2018
For (happy, wonderful) reasons I couldn’t finish my posts on my favourite Scottish authors before the end of Book Week Scotland, so here, belatedly, is the final part. Iain Banks – The late, great Iain Banks, or Iain M. Banks if sci-fi is more your thing, was a powerhouse of a novelist, a genre-bending … More My top Scottish Authors, part 3
Following on from yesterday’s post, here’s the next part of my list of favourite Scottish authors in celebration of Book Week Scotland. (Not in order of preference.) Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, name a more iconic duo, I’ll wait. There’s not an English literature student in the land that can’t … More My top Scottish authors, part 2
As it’s Book Week Scotland, I thought I’d post some words on my favourite Scottish authors. (In no particular order.) James Kelman – Kelman’s novel How Late it Was, How Late earned him a Booker Prize in 1994 (the first and only time the prize has been won by a Scottish author) and earned me … More My top Scottish authors, part 1
Since I visited Japan three years ago, I’ve been obsessed with ramen – the famous soupy noodle dish found everywhere in the country with many regional variations. Ramen shops are ubiquitous in Japan’s cities – the little restaurants are crowded underground in railway stations and shopping malls. You make your selection from the machine outside … More Ramen Recipes and Japanese Fiction
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