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BSFA Award win!
Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike won the British SF Association’s Best Short Fiction award! 🦖 Thank you to PodCastle and editor Devin Martin and narrator Eliza Chan for making the story come to life! Listen to or read the story here: PodCastle episode 902: Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike Awarded at
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Cymera Writer’s Retreat
What we got up to Cadging a lift with the excellent Jay and a brand new friend, Kate, we wound our way out into the Scottish countryside to a rural farm that puts up accommodation to help them keep afloat. We got there after dark, and found the main lodge. That’s where I was staying.
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BSFA shortlisting for Godzilla As a Young Man Named Mike
I’m delighted to share that Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike has been shortlisted for a BSFA award for Best Short Fiction for works published in 2025! The British Science Fiction Association is a UK institution and their annual awards honour science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers from all across the world. The awards
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End of 2025 roundup and awards eligibility post!
Awards eligibility 2025 and a review of author events during the year and some photos of the things I saw.
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Writing with intrusive / distractive thoughts
A blog article about British science fiction and fantasy author E.M. Faulds’ take on dealing with neurodivergence / ADHD when writing.
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ECO24 starred review in Publishers Weekly
Wonderful news! The anthology from Violet Lichen and Apex Books, ECO24: Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction has received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. My story, “Love, Scotland” is in this anthology, as you will remember from previous posts. I’m so excited! This is the first time anything I have been involved with has had this
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Final cover design and pre-orders for ECO24
Anthology announcement! ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction featuring climate change short story ready for pre-orders.
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I wish I’d written a bad story
Warning for high salt-content. I’m tired. I’m not the only one. I was discussing with a fellow author this morning, about how it feels like the Hunger Games* out there. Authors scrabbling and brawling for scraps of attention and approval in a machine designed to chew us up and spit us out. So Long Katniss
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Best of 2024 anthology inclusion
“Love, Scotland”, a climate fiction story by British scifi author E.M. Faulds to be republished in ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction.
Spaceships & Feelings
Words from an SFF author from Scotland, UK
