Tag Archives: Fiction

March 2022 book blog

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Rel

Well, the good news is that I’m back in the swing of things with getting my own book ‘Ransomed Hearts’ ready for market. Of course, that means that I didn’t read much in March, but what I did read was … Continue reading →

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February 2022 book blog

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Rel

For the first time since I started setting a reading target on Goodreads, I’m behind. It’s grief, I suppose, although I’m not weeping or feeling awful, I’m somewhat tired and listless. I’m watching TV and knitting rather than reading or … Continue reading →

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January 2022 book blog

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Rel

January was an odd month. It was the month that I decided to stop indulging myself with other people’s books, and to get my own second and third novels finished and sent to the copy editor. It was also the … Continue reading →

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December 2021 book blog

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Rel

If you read my November blog, you probably gathered that I really enjoyed N K Jemisin’s ‘Inheritance Trilogy’. So much so that I dived headfirst into her next books, ‘The Killing Moon’ and ‘The Shadowed Sun’, which together make up … Continue reading →

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Things Sometimes Went Bump

Posted on August 27, 2021 by Rel

I originally wrote this flash fiction on the theme of ‘Beneath’. I’ve never written about my home town before, but I’d recently found out about the old underground canals beneath the place where I grew up, and it made me … Continue reading →

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July 2021 book blog

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Rel

July kicked off with a return to an old favourite, I recently realised that Octavia Butler had written a sequel to ‘Parable of the Sower’, so I decided it was time for a re-read of the original and to read … Continue reading →

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Fight for the Future out now.

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Rel

My first novel, Fight for the Future, is now available as a paperback or for Kindle here.

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Revolutions 2 / Sole Defender

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Rel

I loved ‘Revolutions’, the Manchester speculative fiction anthology, so I was chuffed to bits when my story ‘Sole Defender’ was accepted for ‘Revolutions 2’. All the stories are based in Manchester. You can get a copy here.

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Nothing / State of You

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Rel

My short story ‘State Of You’ was published by Hic Dragones in their anthology ‘Nothing’. I’m proud to be the anthology sister of Daisy Black, Kim Bannerman, Hannah Kate, Nancy Schumann, Valentine George, Ackley Lewis, Amanda Steel, Anthony Cowin, C … Continue reading →

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PC Caleb

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Rel

(A sequel to ‘Crushed’) I need your help, to get me out of this place. It’s all been a big, horrendous mistake. Could you please get up a petition or something? I’d start one myself, but I’m not allowed any … Continue reading →

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