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Dad died two months ago today. Every day I am thankful that he raised me on the principles of kindness, curiosity and fearlessness. I will always try to live my life in a way that would make him proud.

I’m delighted to announce that I have an agent! Francesca Barrie at Johnson & Alcock will be representing my first novel, Rust and Stardust, as well as (hopefully) whatever comes next. Short story collection? Novella? Genderqueer burlesque mime show? Watch this space…

open your mouth            wide                        wider make sure they can hear that scream all the way             to the back             of the cinema. aim to deafen the projectionist. look behind you when you run                        up to the attic or down to the basement            or whichever way leads to snapping jaws. turn to the camera so your hair flips             just right. pull your dress tight             so your tits bounce. leave a trail of potential weapons dropped from…

oh gahd, not Josh says Cassie with her throat tilted just right and her glass angled to spill. we all shuffle our boy-cards because it’s late and Josh is the hot one. Cassie cradles the loaf-sized phone — pinker than any girl — and dials. he’s not wearing a hat says the phone and we all scratch our pencils on the boy-list. we played this game before we had tits or spots or periods or stretchmarks or hangovers. now we’ve had them…

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an annual creative writing event, held every November, where participants write a 50-000 word novel in 30 days. It’s wonderful, it’s horrible, and I love it. In 2006 I was in my final year of university. I was studying English Lit, my dissertation was on retold fairytales, and I didn’t have a fucking clue what I was doing. So, purely as a distraction from the car-crash that was my dissertation, I signed up for…

Check out my lush new business cards, designed by the super-talented (and rather sexy) Susie McConnell at Firebrat. I love them! Luckily you don’t have to go out with a graphic designer to have a fancy business card – Moo do lush typewriter and vintage notebook designs. Let me know if you want to order any, as I can wangle you a 10% discount.