Tell me about your books.   Following the Future World Prize shortlisting, I was contracted to write for the popular children’s series The Magical Unicorn Society and wrote eight short stories for their 5th book, The Dark Heart Unicorns edition in 2024. The book is filled with beautiful illustrations, fact pages and a quiz for readers aged 8 upwards.

This is everyone’s favourite story from Sandcastles … Love, Andy which was originally written for an online magazine.

Yesterday I found out Sandcastles, my short story collection, had been awarded a red ribbon being one point shy of being a finalist.

‘You wrote a book?’ Yes I did. Several in fact.

I am including Small Press Books as Indie Books. Given their small teams the members can be called to multi task and they do not have the reach of the larger and more well known publishers. Some are also authors themselves. As some of them told me 'they need all the help they can get'. I will talk about some of the presses themselves in another part of this series but for now here's some books you might like.

Thea is a queer writer of various types of SFF, including the Seer of York series published by Brigids Gate Press, and a number of short fiction works published by Eerie River Publishing, Bag of Bones Press, and others. She is currently querying cyberfae adventure Legend of the Bard. She’s also the British Fantasy Society Event Coordinator for Greater Manchester. See Thea’s upcoming events page for details of what they’re doing.

Red - what is one of your favourite books?  Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Red - what is one of your favourite books?  My favorite book is a classic children’s picture book: The Little Engine That Could. Its positi

H. M. Mills Bio: Award-Winning Author & lover of Paranormal Dark Fantasy Romance & an Avid reader living in Tasmania, Australia. When and...

When and how did you start writing? I’ve written all my life, but not normally stories. Poems, song lyrics, press releases… Lots of press...