My partner on Telefantasy Time Jump Lizbeth Myles and I have written a comic strip together! It’s going to be one of the stories in Flash Gordon Quarterly #7, from Mad Cave, with the great Georges Jeanty on art! It’ll be out next Wednesday, April 29th and you can order it direct from the publisher here.

I’m going to keep this here until Rachael Smith and I discover if we’ve won! (With our cosy comedy cryptozoological whodunnit graphic novel.)

The ceremony takes place on 11th May, and you can see the shortlist here.

And if you want to buy Nessie, you can get it here from the publisher, Avery Hill, or direct from me, signed and personalised.

My company Cosmic Lighthouse is publishing its first graphic novel: Salvation’s Child.

Salvation’s Child is the graphic novel Prologue to Adrian Tchaikovsky’s best-selling SFF novel series The Final Architecture. (So new readers can start here!) It’s by Adrian himself, artist Mike Collins, colour artist Pippa Bowland and letterer Simon Bowland. We’re publishing it together with our partners ComiXology.

Check out these pre-order links at Amazon US and Amazon UK.

And you can find Cosmic Lighthouse at this link on Instagram.

Salvation’s Child will be released by ComiXology Originals on 26th May!

Up for pre-order now, and out on 16th June is The Lychford Collection 2, featuring my fourth, fifth and sixth Lychford novellas!

I’m one of a whole bunch of comickers contributing to Legendary Comics’ Monarch: The Lost Adventures, a graphic novel anthology which tells stories in the continuity of the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters TV series. (And we stick very closely to the lore.) My story, which I loved writing, concerns Bill Randa’s wartime encounter with the Ion Dragon, and is wonderfully rendered by Drew Zucker and Brad Simpson on art and colour art. The anthology is out on 14th July, and is up for pre-order now!

Because I’ve still got some copies of Who Killed Nessie? and a couple of other books, I decided I’d take a table at a new comics event in Gloucester. Comics Assemble isn’t a ‘comic con’, but a proper comics festival, with Jim Zub as a guest. It’s on August 15th, at Gloucester Leisure Centre. You can find all the details at the link.

Tickets will cost £10 for adults, but I’ve got 10 to give away! All you have to do is email me at [email protected] with the subject heading Comics Assemble. One each, first ten to email get them!

I’m writing the dialogue for a forthcoming comic based on the Summoner Wars game! The new comic is plotted by Justin Zimmerman, with art by Patrick Macchi, colouring by Mo Hollowell, a story by Plaid Hat Games, and covers by Plaid Hat’s Martin Abel. Battle Quest Comics is bringing the new release to stores this September. You can read all about it at Screen Rant here, and see some sample finished pages at AIPT here!

I’m once more a guest at the Thought Bubble convention in Harrograte this year on November 14th-15th, with Lizbeth Myles as always (she should have her own comics titles to sell this year!), and alongside our own table there’ll be one for my comics company, Cosmic Lighthouse!

There’s one more book in the Lychford series, the 7th and final one, that completes all the threads, includes all previously unpublished Lychford material (two short stories as well as the main tale) and perhaps offers Lizzie a happy ending. It’s called Last One Out in Lychford. There is some cricket involved, but the title is also a pun. It’s coming soon from Blue Fox Books, and you can sign up here to be notified when the Kickstarter launches!

Amongst the many things announced at Gerry Anderson Day 2026 (you can see them all here) was the news of a multimedia narrative consisting of a comics series and two anthologies, one of them comics and one of them short stories! My involvement with the prose anthology is mentioned in that piece, and… that’s not all I’m doing! All will be revealed later this year.

I’ve re-stocked my Ko-fi online store, with all my current works, which you can get cheaper than anywhere else, plus you can have them signed and personalised! Right now, it’s just for UK residents, but that’ll change as I sort out international postage.

The new podcast from me and Lizbeth Myles covers the history of SFF on TV, from 1953 onward, with our regular episodes (on the 14th of every month) covering a show released that year in the UK, and the Patron Bonus episodes (on the 28th) covering a show from the rest of the world. The shows for April are The Champions and Land of the Giants.

The main episode is available free wherever you get your podcasts. To get the bonus episode, you need to follow us on Patreon at £3/$3 or above. (And you get access to seven years of Hammer House of Podcast bonus episodes!) You can find all the info here.

You can now find all my social media links, my website/blog and links to where you can buy my books, in one place here, thanks to Linktree!

Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall is an actual choose your own adventure book, Jendia Gammon’s first book from a major publisher, and it’s out now! “Delve into the gnarly guts of a long-dead mall in this gloriously weird and whacked-out romp, where friendship, 80s music, and food court slushies are your weapons of choice against spandexed supernatural creeps. Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.”

Liz Myles’ new Doctor Who audio drama, a Sixth Doctor historical with Peri and Turlough entitled ‘A Crucible of Queens’ is out now as part of the Expulsion box set! “In the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt, the Doctor and Turlough find themselves aligned with opposing factions. Turlough befriends Charles, the Dauphin of France, while the Doctor is tasked with healing his father, King Charles VII. But two powerful women are also in play: the Dauphin's adviser Yolande, Duchess of Anjou, and his estranged mother, Isabeau of Bavaria. Can the TARDIS crew keep both queens happy - and keep their own heads?” I’ve had a listen, and it’s great stuff. Liz does such deep and interesting historicals!

And Lee Harris, who this week celebrates Hugo Award nominations in both the Long Form and Short Form categories of Best Editor, has launched a new Newsletter on this platform. He says he’ll probably talk about musical theatre and ADHD at least as much as books. You can find it here.

It’s been a much steadier week in terms of my mental health. One of the things that steadies me is doing things to help Thomas, and this week there were two big projects on his behalf. Firstly, his beloved trampoline got bent out of shape, and the company who made it (Sportspower) were excellent in providing replacement parts under warranty so Caroline and I could repair it. (They did first send them to the wrong house, mind you, but sent us a replacement set before the owners of the wrong address found me, and, well, you can never have too many trampoline mats and struts, eh?) As of right now, Tom has declared the repaired trampoline not bouncy enough, but the extra springs arriving today should sort that. Secondly, since the iPad that Tom has spent many years reducing to a wreck, but will not part with, is on the edge of complete collapse, I’ve been trying to nudge him toward the shiny replacement that a friend was good enough to pass on to us. All Thomas watches on his iPad are Children’s YouTube videos of his choice. I’d been fretting lately that while BBC Radio 1 and his music videos give him a suitable current musical cultural knowledge, he’s still stuck, in visual terms, on CBeebies, which is way not age appropriate for him any more. I’d suggested we try watching Lego City on streaming, but that was met with autistic panic, so instead I loaded up the new iPad with our subscribed streaming services and the BBC iPlayer, all set to child-appropriate content, and made sure he knew that I’d also copied his YouTube settings. To my delight, he quietly abducted the new iPad away to his room and then returned it back to its power lead. (All iPads must be plugged in as often as possible.) I think he might have started watching some shows on Prime, because some unusual ‘keep watching’ notifications had appeared. (Robot Wars and He-Man?) But I’m not sure if that’s some ancient foray of my own. Still, there is now a pathway in place to him accessing some wider culture, which feels a lot better.

Work-wise, I’ve beeen plotting two things: the sequel to Who Killed Nessie? and an unannounced graphic novel project. Cosmic Lighthouse have also got to the contract stage of our second project. So that’s all looking positive.

Today I’m taking Tom to the dentist, with an early pick-up from school, and tonight I’m doing one of my favourite things: hosting a pub quiz. Wish me luck. And sustained relief from stress!

I still have to get my suit sorted for the British Book Awards!

And I hope to see you all here again next week!