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one more book in the Lychford series, the 7th and final one, that completes all the threads, includes all previously unpublished Lychford material (two short stories as well as the main tale) and perhaps offers Lizzie a happy ending.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.

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 on 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!

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!

Lizbeth Myles has her first graphic novel coming out from Time Bomb Comics. It’s a very unusual project within the worlds of Gerry Anderson. Gerry Anderson’s Project SWORD is a continuation of a universe created by Anderson entirely within a comic strip in TV21, an Annual and a range of toys. (You can read all about the project and its history here at Down the Tubes.) The graphic novel is by Liz with art by James Gray.

‘Set in the year 3031, Project SWORD imagines a future reshaped by catastrophe, when a colossal meteorite strikes Earth and burrows into its core. Rather than ending the world outright, it destabilises the planet. Vast regions sink beneath rising seas, volcanic activity tears at the surface, and civilisation faces a slow, frightening collapse. The responsibility for saving humanity falls to the Space World Organisation for Research and Development – Project SWORD.’

The graphic novel has a Kickstarter campaign, and you can sign up to be notified when it launches, and learn more about the project, here.

Another Kickstarter you might want to look at is The Lost Films of Hollywood, in which David Quantick and Chris Barker envisage classic Hollywood takes on modern movies. The book version looks to be just as much fun as last year’s highly successful calendar. Go check out Brokeback Mountain and Avatar!

I had a couple of rougher days at the start of the week, with my brain stressing out again, but by midweek getting back into my boxing had put me on a much more even keel. Tom going back to school brought routine back with it, and that helped a lot too. He also had a couple of those days where one suddenly sees him develop, notably when he tried to use the negative word he always uses, ‘embarrassing’ to describe a situation he didn’t like, then checked himself and replaced it with the much more apt ‘frustrating’. I live for moments like that.

Work-wise it’s been an exciting week, with two big meetings, one about the Saucer Country TV show, the other about a new graphic novel. Plus I sent in the lettering draft on an unannounced comic first issue, delivered Summoner Wars #3 and was told that the licensor of the official sequel novel that I’m writing had accepted my first draft with no notes. It was also great to see how Blue Fox had immediately got the vibe of previous Lychford covers.

As you read this, I’ll be at a tailor, getting measured for what I’m going to wear to the British Book Awards. I’ve decided on something with a bit of zap to it. Let’s hope everyone else got the same style guide.

Those remaining big announcements are still hanging in the ether!

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