I’m a bit all over the place, to be honest, but here we go.
If you’ve enjoyed this blog so far and want more of the same, try my old blog ‘A Pile of Leaves’, full of fascinating/meandering reflections on reading material for adults and children, as well as pieces on bookshops, on having too many books and on reading children’s fiction as an adult.
Some Pile of Leaves posts reflect the process of writing my PhD thesis, Children’s Neo-Romanticism: The Archaeological Imagination in British Post-War Children’s Fantasy which you can read in its entirety (if that very long title wasn’t quite enough) on the University of Roehampton’s website here. I wrote a related journal article on the work of John Gordon for Roehampton’s Round Table journal, available here.
Similar fare is found in my short series of articles on fantastic literature and landscape in the British Fantasy Society Journal issues 12, 14 and 17. I have a few pieces on We Are Cult’s excellent website here.
Written for Children
‘Word: The Invention of Language’, Scoop magazine: A Feast of Words and Pictures for Kids, June 2019
12 x Pearson Mexico’s Learning Destinations series (short stories, poetry, fables, articles) – Read more about it here.
‘The Oz Gazette’ for The International Oz Club, writer and editor 2018-2024
Blogs
Burzee: Reading L. Frank Baum’s Oz Book series with my childhood friend (ex pen pal, now editor of The Baum Bugle) Sarah Hadley (ongoing)
Campbell and Hadley’s Recorder: watching Patrick Troughton’s Doctor Who stories in order with Sarah Hadley
The Dandy: watching Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who stories in order, I thought I’d hate it – it turned out to be one of my favourite eras for the show
Space Fluff: watching 1970s/80s British sci-fi series Blake’s 7 in order – I thought I’d hate it – the jury is still out.
Fiction
The Mystic Menagerie of Iris Wildthyme, Obverse Books 2019
“The Story of a Criminal Practice”, Gents, ed. Matt Bright, Lethe Press, 2019 (A Lambda Literary Finalist)
“Eff the Unknown”, The Brenda & Effie Treasury ed. Douglas / Magrs, Obverse Books, 2017
“The Illuminated Omi-Palone”, The Myriad Carnival, ed. Matt Cresswell, Lethe Press, 2016
“Dark Side”, Wildthyme: Reloaded, Big Finish Productions; directed by Scott Handcock, 2015, featuring Katy Manning and David Warner
“The Adventure of the Decadent Headmaster”, Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, ed. George Mann, Titan Books, 2014
“Grandad with Snails”, Storyteller, ed. Stuart Douglas, Obverse Books, 2013
“The Corrective Tender”, Shenanigans, ed. Paul Magrs, Obverse Books, 2013
“The Wildthyme Effect”, Iris Wildthyme: Fifteen, ed. Stuart Douglas, Obverse Books, 2013
“Up the Hill Backwards”, Iris Wildthyme: Lady Stardust, Obverse Books, 2012
“Fântomville”, Wildthyme in Purple, Obverse Books, 2011
The Impossible Library 