Hello Subscribers! A brief post this month but I hope you'll forgive me because I have the biggest and most exciting news to share. DEATH & MAIA IS GOING TO BE AN AUDIOBOOK! I'm extremely excited and honoured to announce that the dulcet-toned Eliza Gathoni will be narrating, and the audiobook will come out sometime in April. If all the elements align, hopefully on the anniversary of the print publication last year. 24th of April. Available on Audible and Apple Books (TBD). Save the date!...
7 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Subscribers! I am starting to hit my stride again with writing. Slow going, but better. Progress not-withstanding, I am a terrible procrastinator and decided to design my own font (I mean, come on!) to use for chapter titles in my current draft. It looks pretty cool though! Updates: 4th newsletter broadcast with actual subscribers! See older posts here. Current work-in-progress: “Lady | Beast | Legend” (working title) Word count at time of broadcast: 72,120 - still very slow but getting...
8 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Subscribers! I am not much of a reader, it may surprise you to know, but I have read a few great books this year and, for this newsletter, I would like to share my absolute favourite of 2025. Updates: 3rd newsletter broadcast with actual subscribers! See older posts here. Current work-in-progress: “Lady | Beast | Legend” (working title) Word count at time of broadcast: 67,663 (I've been experimenting with writing by hand and its... fascinating, but slow) Current chapter is about: One...
9 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Subscribers! November is a weird one. My wife and I have decided to do a digital detox, and one of my things is to not be online and also (very radical and experimental) try writing long hand. With like, a notebook and pen. I'll have a lot to say about how that goes in December. For this newsletter, I'm going to tell you a bit about the world-building in my work-in-progress, which is an epic fantasy novel with magic and lesbians and a crusty hand-drawn map! Updates: 2nd newsletter...
11 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Subscribers! Thank you for signing up to my newsletter! I hope you all got your link to some extra writing of mine (let me know if you didn’t). This is my first official newsletter. I will try to send one of these once per month. I’ll update you on how things are going, writing-wise, and also what I’ve been reading lately. If you want to know about something in particular, you can reply to this email. I’m assuming some of you are here because you read and liked my book Death & Maia, so...
12 months ago • 7 min read
Part 1: Waiting, waiting I’ve been writing for a while. As a kid I was better at it than most but this was rural New Zealand in the nineties, and there were less than seventy of us in the entire school, and even then I had this sense of being an averagely-sized fish in an extremely small pond. So I wrote, because we were told to, and I was really proud of this one poem, I think it was called “The Taniwha”. It was a story about a vengeful taniwha (a dangerous water spirit) who gobbles up a...
12 months ago • 10 min read
I am a geriatric millennial gay who, in the last year or so, only just started reading and writing sapphic fiction. I know, I know. So here on my blog, I would like to share some of the gayest books I’ve read and loved recently. Starting with: Providence Girls, by Morgan Dante A sketchy review of Providence Girls This is the first book I purchased in my lesbian-book fancier era. A sea monster romance seemed like the perfect fit for my tastes, which is weird and erotic. It’s about a woman...
12 months ago • 1 min read