Writing

Notes From the Burning Age is now out in the UK and US in hardback, ebook and audio!  Hurrah!   As a reminder, this one is a semi-sorta spy-thriller set in a future environmentalist’s utopia […]

We’re a little over a week from publication of Notes From the Burning Age (which is July 22nd in the UK and I think also the US… and probably also audio too?) – and just […]

This is a reminder/permenant post placeholder thing of some lovely things coming up imminently, hurrah!   On June 17th – that’s this Thursday – I’m chatting with the lovely GX Todd and Gillie Hatton as […]

This is a thing what I did with people who I love and admire, and it is pure fun.   I mean, it’s DnD, it should just be pure fun.  And it is!  As part […]

Some nice things what are happening soon!   June 4th-6th is the Cymera Festival, which usually takes place physically in Edinburgh, and this year is taking place digitally everywhere.  On Saturday at 11.45 I’ll be […]

Who is this list for:  everyone who’s read one of my books as either Catherine Webb, Kate Griffin or Claire North and been a bit like “huh, I wonder if she’s written anything else oh […]

Sometimes it is nice to have fun nice fluffy nice things.  By extraordinary coincidence, here for you is a fun nice fluffy short story thing.   A bit of background.  In 2014 I was approached […]

It’s been a long pandemic.  Have I mentioned that?  It’s been a looonnnggg pandemic.   In April 2020, having had nothing to do, I finished writing Notes From The Burning Age, which I’d been working […]

Bias disclaimer: I have known the author of The Witchling’s Girl, Helena Coggan, since she was a teenager starting out in her writing adventures.  We met on a very wet day in a cafe in […]

Sometimes I get an email that goes, “I hope you or someone on your team sees this,” and I always smile, because in my mind it implies harried PAs organising my life as I lie […]

Sweet Harmony is out in ebook!  REJOICE!  And as of October 27th it will also be out in audiobook too!  MORE REJOICING!   That’s about the full content of this blog post, if I’m honest.  […]

“Could you write something about your writing process?” my editor enquired. Could I hell! Could I! Could I? Probably not, is the honest answer.   So here’s the problem.  When I write, I am not […]