2024 horror-romance-fantasy. Shesheshen just wants to be left to rest, but the monster hunters have come into her lair and woken her from hibernation.
High Wycombe's in-town shopping centre is called Eden. This offends me, but perhaps not in the obvious way.
2020 Victorian romance. Chloe Fong lives her life by checklists, and is determined to make her father's sauce a success. Jeremy Yu, an occasional visitor to the village, is trying very hard not to let anyone know that he's really the Duke who owns the whole place…
2025 novella, fantasy in the world of The Goblin Emperor. Ulcetha is a disgraced scholar, but when his best friend dies in the same airship wreck that killed the Emperor, he finds he's been left a trail of clues to one of the great lost treasures…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string splitting and testing. (Note that this ends today.)
2021 short story, fantasy in the Cemeteries of Amalo series, set before The Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar is contacted by a woman who's lost her business partner, but inherited the baby…
This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD. Spoilers for Adventure Seed 2.
1992 sf. Reverdy Jian is hired to test-fly an old, but still advanced, starship. But everyone has a different desired outcome, and a plan for achieving it.
This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD. Spoilers for Adventure Seed 1.
1951 historical fiction for young people. Some time in the 1530s, Tamsyn, an orphan, is sent from Devon to live with her cousins in London after her grandmother dies.
2023 paranormal fantasy, third of a nine-book series. Lorelei Clay's efforts to keep a low profile are going to be in vain.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)
2022 SF, fourth in a five-book series. Nora's new status leaves her learning to play politics in a hurry.
2025 supernatural mystery in modern Edinburgh, fourteenth in Oswald's Inspector McLean series. DCI McLean is tapped to keep the billionaire happy by adding some rank to the investigation of a trivial break-in at a research lab under construction. Meanwhile DI Harrison chases down a casual labourer who's gone missing…
More gaming with nearby friends.
2024 SF, fourteenth of its series. Roslyn Chambers takes one of the experimental scout cruisers out in pursuit of the other, which was stolen at the end of the previous book.
2021 romantic fantasy. Piper is a lich-doctor, a medical examiner who also has the magical ability to feel what a corpse felt when it died. Galen is another of the dead Saint of Steel's former paladins, now working as a general troubleshooter and bodyguard for the Church of the White Rat.. Both of them are involved in the investigation of bizarrely-injured corpses floating down the river…
1994 mystery. Sheila Malory regularly visits some of the residents at the local nursing home, and one of them has a daughter who's rather too keen on getting a power of attorney. Then the mother disappears…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various string splitting and analysis. (Note that this ends today.)
2024 steampunk fantasy. The Imperium was created by the Seelie Gods, but fell apart in civil war twenty years ago. Now, Captain William Blair uses his rackety old ship to run cargo between various unfriendly successor states. Because what a ship really is… is freedom.
2021 romantic fantasy, side stories surrounding The Fossil Door.
Back to the Masonic Hall for a damp and muggy weekend.
2025 romantic fantasy, first of a new series. Felix is the young, widowed Archduke, cowed by his family and waiting to be murdered in the pursuit of power, until he suddenly realises that there's nobody left that he cares about to be hurt if he runs away. Meanwhile, the villainous Queen Saskia seems to have the one kingdom where his family can't reach him…
1939 poetry, descriptions of various cats-about-town.
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, eighth in the Logan McRae series. A man turns up burned to death, gangland style; someone's beating up Asian drug dealers; oh, and two teenage lovers haven't been seen for a few days. Logan McRae will, ultimately, solve all of these cases…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string replacements. (Note that this ends today.)
1948 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, James Stewart; IMDb / allmovie. Two students commit the perfect murder, and to prove it host a dinner parry over the corpse.
2024 romance. Cole James was the bad boy on a soap opera, bought into the image a bit too much, and has being trying to rehabilitate his life and career ever since. Maggie Niven was a school drama teacher forced out by a parental complaint, now starting a new career as an intimacy coordinator. They're both working on the Bridgerton-esque TV adaptation of The Heart of Midlothian.
1951 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, Robert Walker; IMDb / allmovie. Tennis star and political wannaba Guy Haines meets a strange man on a train, who seems to know too much about his private life and proposes that they each commit the murder that the other would find convenient. The price of fame. Then Guy's estranged wife is killed…
2025 horror-romance-fantasy. The town of Lake Argen, deep in rural Ontario, seems quiet and boring. They work hard to keep it that way…
1965 Shakespearean adaptation, dir. and starring Orson Welles: IMDb / allmovie. Falstaff!