Sorry for the radio silence recently. Life has beeen ‘somewhat’ hectic. I still owe you multiple jam recipes, and a write-up of Jess Meats’s book launch. Bedknobs and Beanstalks is coming out next Tuesday! I have coverart to show you all, and share the other author’s blogs, because they’re awesome, but I won’t get a chance until Monday.

So what I have been doing? Mostly working. Since I got back from holiday things have gone a little insane, thanks to Christmas being less than 12 weeks away. In my infrequent spare time I’ve submitted Firebird to EM Lynley’s f/f fairy tale anthology (Rumpledsilksheets); I’ve been to see UP, which is the saddest Pixar film ever made,  I swear; I’ve attended a good but disjointed burlesque show; and I’ve introduced more people to GhostWatch.

Later today I’m heading to Whitby for the Bram Stoker Film Festival, which is in equal parts an exciting and a terrifying prosect because I’ve only been to Whitby once, I don’t know anyone at the festival, and I’m going to be late thanks to the trains (which are taking me all the way up to Middlesbrough and then back down to Whitby, and only run four times a day). The Youth hostel is tucked behind the Abbey, with its hundreds of steps –  the climbing of which will be far scarier than any of the films, I’m sure you’ll agree! Again, I’ll report when I get back!

Anyway, further radio silence until Monday evening, when I’ll tell you more about the anthology. And everything else!