Here you'll find information on my fiction writing - I've got several projects on the go at the moment, but you can currently find details about my first two novels below. For any further information, or if you have any queries, please contact my agent John Jarrold.

THE HYPERNOVA GAMBIT

Genre: Science Fiction / Adventure

Completed: May 2009

22 years old, intelligent, and more capable and sexy than she thinks she is, Kolmaz Devrion is a megastar. One of the most famous people in the human civilisation known as the Confederacy, she's idolised by millions, revered as a musical genius, celebrated wherever she goes... and she'd really like it all to stop, right now.

Her plan is to leave her stifling existence, and her scheduled time is in the run-up to a performance on board the Hypernova, a colossal, fifteen-mile long Commerce Ship that stocks the finest and most exclusive merchandise from across the galaxy. Anything you dream of can be purchased inside its eight hundred floors – but while for Kolmaz it's a chance at freedom, for a sinister group of 'reality revolutionaries', it means something very different.

Calling themselves the Cadre of Loathing, they're out to make the universe a better place, and don't care who they have to kill in order to do it. Hi-jacking the Hypernova, the Cadre are soon executing a bizarre plan, and it's up to Kolmaz, Gestalt-entity prostitute Jak Hoyle and an eccentric AI named Arkenby to figure out what their real intentions are.

Whether they can stop them is a completely different story – but for Kolmaz, it's her only chance at getting a normal life, and she'll do anything she can to take it.

Romance. Danger. Universal Cataclysm. And no chance of a refund...

CHILL OUT

Genre: Contemporary Fantasy

In Progress. Scheduled for Completion: Autumn 2010.

Don't call her Chill...

She’s getting married. She’s got a job she enjoys. She’s got a good life. For Jill Baxter, everything should be fantastic. There’s only one problem:

Her family.

It’s eleven years since she left them behind, moved out, and changed her name. She doesn’t call herself Chill anymore – she’s living a normal life, and she likes it. But now that she’s engaged, questions are being asked. Her family want to meet her fiancé. She’s got to take him home for the weekend, to the sprawling country estate where she grew up. And there’s the very strong risk… that he might find out the truth.

The truth is that the world is a much stranger, wilder and more dangerous place than most people ever suspect. Jill’s family know this, and for generations they’ve been living at a crossroads in reality, battling gods, monsters and sanity-bending forces. They’ve travelled to other worlds, other realms, other universes. They’re some of the only people who stand between normality and the gibbering strangeness that lurks just around the corner.

And they’re exceptionally good at messing up Jill’s life.

One weekend. That’s all she’s got to manage – one weekend of keeping her fiancé from discovering the truth, and preventing her family from unwittingly tearing her life apart. But something else is happening, something that threatens more than just Jill’s engagement. Shadowy, terrifying forces are gathering, and before the weekend is out, the girl who used to be called Chill is going to find out that certain things – and certain names – aren’t so easy to run away from…