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I’m delighted to bring you all the news that I have three Morag and Seamus stories on the British SF Association Award longlist this year, and my article on colonialism in Dan Simmons’ novel The Terror and its AMC adaptation! You can read the longlist here-– and vote, if you’re a BSFA member, but even if you’re not, why not give the articles, stories and books a read?

Here is my schedule for this year’s Eastercon, Reconnect: Since none of my publishers are attending, copies of my most recent books will be available for purchase from the indie authors’ stall, A Bunch of Authors In A Trenchcoat, in the dealer’s room. They will also have a small selection of my handmade jewellery if you’d like a Wicked-themed bracelet, a dinosaur brooch or some bunny…

It’s been officially announced! I am proud and humbled to be the presenter of this year’s BSFA Lecture. The title is: “Even the Smallest Person Can Change the Course of the Future”: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in The Lord of The Rings”. The BSFA Lecture has been held at Eastercon each year since 2009. It is a Humanities lecture on a topic of interest to Eastercon attendees. Abstract:…

I’m not sure how this happened, but I’m on the BSFA Award Shortlist in four separate categories! You can read the shortlisted pieces (or excerpts from them) at the links below: Short story: The Portmeirion Road (Morag and Seamus 3), Clarkesworld 212, May 2024: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_05_24/ (5,700 words) Novelette: What Happened at the Pony Club, Fusion Fragment 22, August 2024:…

Back in 2018, Andrew Dana Hudson and I co-wrote a Solarpunk short story titled In the Storm, a Fire. It eventually found a home in 2020 in the anthology And Lately, The Sun: Speculative Fictions for a Climate-Thrashed World, where it was long-listed for the BSFA Award for Short Fiction and became a semifinalist in the Chanticleer International Book Awards. I’ve often said in my talks and…