A brief introduction to new followers and readers

Yesterday I put up a post on Threads saying I felt I was a ghost and was there anyone else out there like me. The response I got was so overwhelming I felt I should give another mini-introduction to who I am and what I’ve done. And say thank you all for your friendship.

I started this substack last November to repair my relationship with writing by putting out a flash every day that month. My first novel, White Feathers, was published by an Irish publishing company in 2014 and I got the rights back and have reissued it with a new cover just now. In 2020 I self-published a follow-up to White Feathers, which was called Lucia’s War. I also wrote a novella that is connected to that universe called Unfortunate Stars. I’m about 12,000 words into a fourth WIP called, provisionally, Blood Ties. All of these books are set around World War I and its various ramifications. Including: age-gap relationships, lesbian relationships, Black British culture during the war period, arts, music, homosexuality, friendship across enemy lines, and many more.

White Feathers - ebook - paperback - audiobook

Lucia’s War - ebook - paperback

Unfortunate Stars - ebook - audiobook

I’ve also published a lot of short fiction, but there are a few stories I am very proud of, such as my timeslip story “To End All Wars” set on the Gaza Strip, which was published by Overtly Lit magazine last year, and my trans-positive flash story “Rosa at Garryvoe January ‘22” which was published in Channel magazine in 2023, during which I attended the launch with headscarf on, being bald as a coot from cancer treatment but not wanting to be out of the loop altogether!

I’m currently looking for ways and means to promote awareness of White Feathers so that it gets read and enjoyed and talked about, so if any of you book tubers or tiktokers or the like are interested in passionate, intense, political war stories, do reach out :)