My partner on Telefantasy Time Jump Lizbeth Myles and I have written a comic strip together! It’s one of the stories in Flash Gordon Quarterly #7, from Mad Cave, with the great Georges Jeanty on art! It’s in your comic stores, physical and digital right now and you can order it direct from the publisher here.

My novelisation of the Marvel comics event (rather than the TV show) Secret Invasion now has a paperback edition, which will be released on 3rd November. I’m really proud of this one, so I’m delighted it’s getting another shot.

It was lovely to see this article at Down the Tubes inspired by the forthcoming release of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Salvation’s Child by my company Cosmic Lighthouse, putting forward the cases for five other SFF authors to write graphic novels. Who would you like to see us publish? Reply to this email and let me know!

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. (But our Land of the Giants episode is in a holding pattern right now while we wait for BT to fix Liz’s internet. We’ll have it for our Patrons as soon as possible. Sorry!)

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!

First off, the musical Unfolding hit its funding goal and will be staging its showcase in London! So thank you all who contributed.

Today is a Liz Myles day, but when isn’t it?

Firstly, Liz’s first chronologically but second to be published comics work is this: Project SWORD, the rarest of Gerry Anderson projects (with a fascinating backstory), for which Liz has written a graphic novel, with artwork and letters by James Gray. The Kickstarter is now live, with lots of great extras. (Including original art.) It got fully funded on day one!

Secondly, Liz-wise, her Where We Stand, Where We Fall: the Politics of Doctor Who is out from Herne Books today! It comes with excellent blurbs from Sophie Aldred, Steven Moffat, etc., and, speaking as someone who’s read it, I think this is a foundational work, the cornerstone of much future scholarship, that sums up the central themes of the show, bringing together so many different threads. It’s bouncy and funny too.

Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz is an anthology being funded on IndieGoGo, with a few days left and every chance of getting over the line. There’s a gorgeous cover by Eric Shanower and he contributes a story, as does Adrian Tchaikovsky. A must for any Oz fan.

Brandon Easton and Jeb Stuart have written a new movie Takeover, which stars Billy Zane and Quavo and is described as Into the Spiderverse meets Fast and Furious. It’s a joy to see how well Brandon’s doing. You can read all about it and see the trailer here at Collider. It’s out on 8th May.

Fred Van Lente’s new creator-owned comics series from Boom, Vampyrates! comes out on 8th July (which means you need to order it at your local comics store by 1st June). ‘The Empress of the Vampires gets rather violently deposed and escapes by stowing away on a pirate ship and many sword fights and much blood ensues.’ It’s co-created with artist Luca Pizzari and you can read all about it here.

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Last Friday I hosted a pub quiz! It was a music-based quiz, quite challenging but interesting with it, I hope, and I had the best time hosting it, with a lot of back and forth with the teams and one group of people appearing halfway, deciding they were enjoying it and opting to join in. Lots of good reviews afterwards too. Getting to do that, to perform in front of people I know, and especially for it to please them, that’s so important for me. Subscriber Patrick Brower suggested I share the quiz with you all (thanks, Patrick!) so here it is (answers next week, send me yours if you want but it’s just for fun, no prizes!):

It’s been a pretty good week, with lots of exercise (I’ve got back to my boxing, and cricket nets started again on Wednesday). A couple of good meetings too, one about a future Cosmic Lighthouse project, one about Saucer Country. I’ve been plotting an unannounced graphic novel and the Nessie sequel, and completed both until the next stage, which is satisfying.

Mind you, there was one small cloud in my sky, and it’s one that’s always there, really, but which gets highlighted from time to time. Tom’s school report was very positive, A or B for everything in terms of effort and behaviour, so Caroline and I went to his parents’ afternoon at school to meet his class teacher feeling upbeat. And she was upbeat, except that she emphaised how Tom is still on a limited curriculum because of his communication difficulties, and that he’s years behind where a mainstream child would be. Her emphasis for him is about nurture, both making him feel supported and developing his basic skills. All of which I absolutely knew, it’s just that hearing it all again in so concrete a way… well, it’s somebody pointing to the burden one carries and saying ‘remember that?’

I’m always full of ideas about moving Tom along and increasing the size of his world. (Caroline played the teacher a video of him drumming.) But every now and then it becomes clear I should be realistic about my expectations for him. I’m not sure I can actually do that. Maybe that’s just what being a parent is.

Tomorrow I’m off to my local comic shop for Free Comic Book Day, then taking Tom to his Lego workshop!

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