The Scribbling Sea Serpent

  Eww - there's some Geology in my Fiction.  Coming soon - an anthology of Earth Science short fiction containing my short story Permaf...

About 5.3 million years ago, after years of sustained evaporation had resulted in the landlocked Mediterranean Sea almost completely evapora...

The Book A planet steeped in mystery... Jess Amiko is long past her days as a space marine, with all the glory of that time tarnished beyond...

In the 1920s the German architect Herman Sorgel came up with the concept for a vast Engineering project to build a hydroelectric dam across ...

As I have mentioned in a previous post, 6 million years ago (Ma) the Mediterranean Sea entered a phase of desiccation when it became cut off...

My newly released SF novel, The Arid Lands is set some 600 years from now, in an alternate future when the Mediterranean has almost complete...

Near-future Britain. Climate change has led to food shortages and civil unrest. Pollinating insects are in steep decline. Commercial bee far...

I'm delighted to share the news with you that my debut thriller, tentatively titled 'The Sleepers Wake' will be published by Blo...

My first piece for the Climate Fiction Writers League is now live over on their blog. You can find it here: Melting Ice and Rising Seas . Do...

I’m currently pitching a Sci-Fi kid’s novel to agents, so I headed over to my local branch of Waterstones in order to try to identify com...

My latest short story sale – a Cli-Fi piece called Permafrost, has just gone live over at Issues in Earth Science. Issues In Earth Science...

Six years ago my YA Cli-Fi Novel was about to be launched onto the world, and Cli-Fi (short for Climate Fiction) was the latest buzz. My p...

I recently spotted someone on twitter bemoaning the fact that people weren’t taking her seriously as a SF writer because she didn’t have a s...

As a female scientist I’m used to being the only girl in a room, or ship, full of men. It’s never bothered me, and in fact I rather like it....

(Originally posted on the Author Allsorts Blog in January 2016) When science meets fiction something amazing starts to happen. As our ...

As you may already know I regularly post over at the Author Allsorts blog - a collaborative blog run by a group of published UK based pictur...

During the summer break we took a trip north, and one of the places we visited was Cragside House near Rothbury, Northumberland – and what a...

Last weekend we headed over to Portland and looked down from the heights at the waves crashing against Chesil Beach. This was a calm spell b...

  My novel, Red Rock, is set just after the return of the first manned mission to mars; a mission with a special connection for Danni, b...

 It was calm down by the marshes and I spotted this heron, standing so still that there wasn’t even a ripple in the water around him.  ...