OCTOBER 2025 This issue of The Recap will probably be shorter than usual, mostly due to illness and somewhat limited updates. You see, between a two-week half-term holiday and a family holiday to France, there wasn’t as much time to write as I would’ve liked this month. Throw in a bout of bookended sickness at the beginning and the end of October thanks to waaaay too many ‘adults’ coughing like cats hacking up furballs, and, well, yeah…But that isn’t to say there were no updates or progress,...
4 days ago • 9 min read
SEPTEMBER 2025 With summer in the rearview and the weather starting to turn, as leaves shift from green into browns and oranges to accompany the new chill in the air, I’m undeniably excited for the arrival of one of my favourite times of year: autumn. More importantly…Halloween!But before I get to embrace all things spooky, I had to…embrace all things spooky and creepy whilst blasting Christmas songs.What?Read on. All will be revealed below.Between the harsh juxtaposition of Christmas in...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
JULY 2025 July was way busier than expected, filled with plenty of notable writing updates throughout—all in the run-up to my son breaking up for the summer.You see, last month I wrote about challenging myself to complete the editing of my second Ultraverse novel, Evolution, before school ended for the holidays.It was a firm deadline, one that crept ever closer in a month filled with attending events in London, getting horrendously ill, the little thing of celebrating my birthday, starting to...
3 months ago • 10 min read
JUNE 2025 June has sped by at an insane clip. It feels like Burden only just came out, but here we are almost two months since its release.Now, as the weather heats up and summer begins to settle, I’ve not just been chilling out and relaxing because Burden is available. I mean, yeah, there’s been some (extended) downtime, sure, but there’s also marketing to be done and books to sell. More on that—and the little challenge I’ve set myself—below.I’ve now been through the post-release slump that...
4 months ago • 9 min read
MAY 2025 Anything good happen this May? Enjoy any new movies, TV shows, bands, or…I dunno…books? Oh yeah, Burden came out on 6th May! I hope you enjoyed it if you picked it up. If you follow me on social media, you’ll know full well that Burden was on the horizon thanks to the marketing I did to try and promote it (which I touched on in last month’s issue). Still, with that being said, there’s so much more to do now that it’s out there in the wild! Unsurprisingly, this month’s Recap is going...
5 months ago • 13 min read
APRIL 2025 April has been all systems go for Burden because, in case you’re living under a rock, haven’t been following my newsletter for long, or just haven’t been paying attention to my socials, my latest novel comes out on May 6th!But with that means one thing: promotion.So this month has seen me locked in on creating and finalising Burden marketing materials, and, would you believe it, dealing with another obstacle in the release run-up. Because of course. It’s par for the course for this...
6 months ago • 12 min read
MARCH 2025 From writing an anthology piece and celebrating I Must Scream on Deaf Ear’s fourth anniversary to getting stocked in stores and organising the last pieces ahead of Burden’s final push, March has been a surprisingly busy month for this plucky author!In between the writerly goodness is a smattering of life events, including a few handbrake mortality checks, advice on how I handled my first volunteer field trip, and a hearty pop punk recommendation!So what are we waiting for? Let’s...
7 months ago • 11 min read
FEBRUARY 2025 After the extended stay of January, February seems to have been a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it month. More so than usual, at least.Still, this month saw a few writing opportunities come together that I can’t really talk about in detail just yet—so a few teases will have to do!There's not much to report on the Save Point front, especially with a week of half term crowbarred into the middle of the month, so this issue of The Recap, like February itself, will probably be shorter than...
8 months ago • 10 min read
JANUARY 2025 January was the proverbial quiet before the storm. Long and winding—with endless memes about how long January is—it’s also the month that saw Burden finally regain some real momentum as crucial pieces clicked into place. We creep ever closer to the finish line and publication, and I’m stoked to have you along for the ride.Alongside the Burden progress, Your Paper Quest shared some awesome clips from an interview, I got an unfortunate shock regarding Steen, and, on a more personal...
9 months ago • 10 min read