Explore My
Fictional Work
This is where you can explore my thoughts on writing, my published novels, short fiction, and storytelling projects, along with updates on current and forthcoming work. You’ll find information on books, series, and individual stories, plus links to read, watch, or listen across different platforms. If you’re interested in folklore retellings, speculative fiction, and character-led contemporary narratives, this is a good place to browse the catalogue and see what’s next.
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To see the books in-store just click on the associated image or on the title link in each book's descriptive text.
A Simple Manifesto
I refuse to be bound by genre, and I refuse the quiet pressure to pick a lane and stay in it. Stories do not arrive in neat categories, and imagination does not care what a marketing meeting would prefer. When something grips me, a subject, a question, a mood, a particular kind of character trouble, I follow it. I write what comes next because that is the honest way to work, and because the whole point of writing, for me, is to stay alert to whatever is forming in the mind, then give it a shape that can live on the page.
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That instinct has pulled me into different forms and different registers. It has let me indulge a long love of short stories, those tight, precise spaces where you can change a reader’s mood in just a few pages. It has also taken me into thrillers, into science fiction, and into dystopian alternative histories, wherever the material demanded a longer breath, a broader canvas, or a harder edge. Some of these choices are driven by craft, some by curiosity, some by the need to test an idea properly, but they all come from the same place, the desire to tell the story in the form that suits it best, not the form that is easiest to explain.
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Of course, I’m not blind to the commercial argument. Flexibility can look like a weakness to mainstream publishing, because it does not slot cleanly into a single shelf. But I do not accept that this makes the work lesser. If anything, it reminds me that writing is older than genre labels, and larger than them. A similar consideration has never stopped Margaret Atwood from moving across forms and modes with tremendous success, and while I am not claiming anything like her talent, her career does show that readers will follow a writer when the work is real, and when the voice is disciplined, even as it changes shape.
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At the heart of it, I believe we should be free to express ideas without pejorative labels, and without being treated as suspect for refusing to be “just one thing”. I have also been fortunate in a practical sense. Because I combined writing with an earlier career in technology, I have a degree of financial flexibility, and that eases the path through genres and styles. It gives me room to take risks, to write the book that wants to be written rather than the book that seems safest, and to let the work develop at its own pace.
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All told, telling the stories that flood my imagination has become a necessary obsession, and a deeply cathartic one. It is how I make sense of the world, and how I stay human inside it. And I truly believe everyone has a story to tell in some form or another. Some people paint, some build, some sing, some code, some raise families, some keep communities going in ways that never make headlines. For me, it is words. Not one genre, not one shelf, not one mask, just the next story that arrives, and the willingness to follow it where it wants to go.
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Coming Soon...
A Symphony of Sorrows continues the story begun in A Solitude of Stars, but shifts the focus from the vast sweep of war to the damage it leaves behind, in minds, in cities, and in the fragile bonds that survive when ideologies do not. The struggle between Apparat and Dirigiste still shapes the planetary system, but the conflict now feels closer, more intimate, as if the future’s grand machinery has moved from the horizon into the room.
Where the first book asked what peace costs, this one follows the price being paid, through lives bent by loyalty, propaganda, and loss, and through choices made under pressure that cannot be taken back.
Coming Soon...
Demokratia is an upcoming dystopian novel about the slow death of liberal democracy, told through a near-future collapse through a series of “necessary” decisions that harden into permanence. As external strongman powers reshape the global order and internal movements promise relief through authority, the remaining democracies respond with hesitation, bargaining, and emergency measures that quietly hollow out the very ideals they claim to defend.
Moving between street-level consequence and the machinery of policy, the book traces how language turns, how rights become permissions, and how ordinary people react to the loss of choice as the price of stability.
