Publications: Bibliography

Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance Books

• City of Souls: Soul Court Ascension Book One, [9 November 2022] Novel - Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy, available on Kindle Unlimited, Finalist, Best Novel, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• Shards of Stasis: Soul Court Ascension Book Two, [18 May 2023] Novel - Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

• Shrine of Stars: Soul Court Ascension Book Three, [2 November 2023] Novel - Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

• ‘From the Ashes’, Available to newsletter subscribers, [April 2022] Free Short Story Prequel to the Soul Court Ascension trilogy / Melded Earths world - Urban Fantasy, ebook only, Free to read

• Soul Court Ascension: The Complete Trilogy [4 March 2024] - Ebook Box Set - Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

• Echoes of Earthshine: A Melded Earths MM Standalone, [1 August 2024] - Novel - MM Paranormal Romance

Short Speculative Fiction Books

• Against the Grain [7 June 2021] Novella - (Sub)Urban Fantasy with a dash of romance, Finalist, Best Novella, Sir Julius Vogel Awards, available on Kindle Unlimited

• Alt-ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories [9 April 2021] Short Story Collection - Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror, Finalist, Best Collection, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• The Censored City trilogy of novelettes: Would She Be Gone (Finalist, Best Novelette, Sir Julius Vogel Awards), Compact of Fire, and Hell is Empty [2019/2020] Near future Science Fiction thrillers

Chronological List of Publications

2024

• Your Guide to New Zealand Fantasy Romance novels coming in 2024, The Spinoff [16 Jan 2024] Non-fiction Free to read

• Soul Court Ascension: The Complete Trilogy [4 March 2024] - Ebook Box Set - Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

• Echoes of Earthshine: A Melded Earths MM Standalone, [2024] - Novel - MM Paranormal Romance

2023

AWARDS AND OTHER EXCITING THINGS

• Winner, Best Short Story, 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for ‘My Nascent Garden’

• Finalist, Best Novel, 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for City of Souls

Published

• Shards of Stasis, [18 May 2023] Novel - Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

• Shrine of Stars, [2 November 2023] Novel - Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

2022

AWARDS AND OTHER EXCITING THINGS

• Winner, Agent’s Choice (and 2nd place, Editor’s Choice), Romance Writers of New Zealand Great Beginnings Contest for City of Souls

• Winner, Best Short Story, 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for ‘Data Migration’

• Finalist, Best Novella, 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Against the Grain

• Finalist, Best Collection, 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Alt-ernate

• Interview with Radio New Zealand about Year’s Best

• Interview with Radio Active and Wellington Libraries about City of Souls

Published

• ‘Unrequited Sonata’ (Reprint), Tales from the Tavern, a Limited Edition Charity Anthology for the NZ Drug Foundation, [1 December 2022] Short Story - Fantasy

• City of Souls, [9 November 2022] Novel - Urban Fantasy Romance / Paranormal Romance Finalist, Best Novel, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘Data Migration’ (Reprint), Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy Volume 4, Paper Road Press, [3 October 2022] Short Story - Creepy Cli-Fi Winner, Best Short Story, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘A Little Dragon Waits’, Frozen Wavelets Issue 7, [2 October 2022] Flash Fiction - Fantasy Free to read

• ‘Wall or Hearth’, Etherea Magazine #13, [August 2022] Short Story - Fantasy Free to Read

• ‘A Planet Named Beatrice’ (Reprint), BRAVE NEW GIRLS: CHRONICLES OF MISSES AND MACHINES, Revenue goes to the Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Fund [1 July 2022] Short Story - Middle-Grade Science Fiction

• ‘My Nascent Garden’, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, [July/August 2022] Short Story - Dark Science Fiction Finalist, Best Short Story, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘From the Ashes’, Available to newsletter subscribers, [April 2022] Short Story - Urban Fantasy Free to read

• ‘GAC ATG ATT ACA’ (Reprint), Aftermath: Stories of Survival in Aotearoa New Zealand, SpecFicNZ Anthology, [23 April 2022] Flash Fiction - Cli-FI

2021

AWARDS AND OTHER EXCITING THINGS

• Finalist, Best Short Story, 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for ‘Synaesthete’

• Against the Grain inclusion in Pantograph Punch and Verb Festival “Book Coven” bookclub

• Speaker at Verb Literary Festival

• Qualified for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Active Member status

• Featured Indie Author Spotlight, Etherea Magazine Issue 5, December 2022

PUBLISHED

• ‘Between the Lines’, Midnight Echo 16, Australasian Horror Writers Association Magazine, [November 2021] Acrostic Epistolary Microfiction Story - Horror

• ‘Synaethete’ and ‘A Love Note’, Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 3, Paper Road Press, [1 Nov 21] Short Stories

• ‘The Comfort of Fiction’, Coeliac Link Magazine, Coeliac New Zealand [October 2021] Non-fiction - Personal Essay

• ‘Data Migration’, Strange Horizons, [12 July 2021] Short story - Creepy Cli-Fi Free to read, Winner, Best Short Story, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘Introducing Comfort Fiction for Coeliacs’, The Spinoff, [9 June 2021] Non-fiction - Personal Essay Free to read

• Against the Grain [7 June 2021] Novella - (Sub)Urban Fantasy with a dash of romance, Finalist, Best Novella, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘Synaesthete’, (Reprint) Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 6, [25 May 2021] Short Story - Horror

• Alt-ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories [9 April 2021] Short Story Collection - Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror, Finalist, Best Collection, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

2020

Awards AND OTHER EXCITING THINGS

• Won Special Award for Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• Finalist, Best Short Story, 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for ‘The Fisher’, The Reading Room: Newsroom Website, Free to read

• Finalist, Best Novelette/Novella, 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Would She Be Gone

• Finalist, Best New Talent, 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• Finalist, Wright-Murray Residency for Speculative Fiction Writers

• Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) Mentee

• Speaker at Manawatu Writers Festival

• Speaker at Verb Wellington, Newtown Sunday Stroll

PUBLISHED

• ‘A Second Chance’, Midnight Echo 15, AHWA, [30 Nov 20] Flash - Horror

• ‘A Playground Awaits’, Poetry for the Thoughtful Young, B Cubed Press, [9 October 2020] Poem - Fantasy

• ‘Radio Silence’, Frozen Wavelets, Free to read, [21 Sept 20] Drabble - Science Fiction

• ‘Common Denominator’, (Reprint) Wild Musette Journal, Free to read, [3 August 2020] Short Story - Science Fiction

• ‘The Fisher’, (Reprint) Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 2, Paper Road Press, [July 2020] - Slipstream

• ‘The Fisher’, (Reprint) The Best of British Fantasy 2019, Newcon Press, [30 June 2020] Short Story - Slipstream

• ‘Synaesthete’, Black Dogs, Black Tales: A Mental Health Charity Anthology, Things in the Well Press [17 May 2020] Short Story - Horror Finalist, Best Short Story, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘Love Cage’, ‘Only Child’, and ‘A Love Note’, Takahē 98, Free to read, [April 2020] Series of Microfiction - Fantasy and Science Fiction

• Hell is Empty, [7 April 2020] Novelette - Science Fiction

• ‘A Fairy Tale’, NewMyths.com, Free to read, [15 March 2020] Short Story - Fantasy

• ‘An Eye for an Eye’, Frozen Wavelets Issue Issue 2.1, Free to read, [29 February 2020] Short Story (Flash Fiction) - Dark Fantasy

EDITED

• Black Dogs, Black Tales: A Mental Health Anthology [Assistant Editor], Things in the Well Press [17 May 2020] Short Story - Horror

2019

Awards and OTHER EXCITING THINGS

• Finalist, Best Short Story, 2019 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for ‘A Devoted Husband’ published in Breach Zine

• Finalist, Micro Madness Competition 2019, National Flash Fiction Day for ‘See Me’

Published

• ‘GAC ATG ATT ACA’ (Reprint), Little Blue Marble 2019 anthology, [27 December 2019] Short Story (Flash Fiction) - Science Fiction

• ‘GAC ATG ATT ACA’, Little Blue Marble website, Free to read, [13 December 2019] Short Story (Flash Fiction) - Science Fiction

• ‘A Planet Named Beatrice’, 2019 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, Dreaming Robot Press [10 December 2019] Short Story - Middle-Grade Science Fiction

• ‘A Squash of Commuters’ and ‘A Galactic Symphony’, Apocalypse: Dark Drabbles #6, Black Hare Press, [9 December 2019] Drabble (100-word story) - Science Fiction

• Compact of Fire: A Censored City Novelette, [November 2019] Novelette - Science Fiction

• ‘Common Denominator’ (Reprint), Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume I, Paper Road Press, [1 Nov 2019] Short Story - Science Fiction

• Would She Be Gone: A Censored City Novelette [October 2019] Novelette - Science Fiction Finalist, Best Novelette/Novella, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘The Gift of Time’, New Orbit Magazine, [October 2019] Short Story - Science Fiction

• ‘The Fisher’, The Reading Room: Newsroom Website, Free to read, [5 October 2019] Short Story - Slipstream Finalist, Best Short Story, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘The Six Stages of Revenge’, Trickster’s Treats #3, Things in the Well [September 2019] Short Story (Flash) - Horror (Charity Anthology raising funds for charity:water)

• ‘Unrequited Sonata’, NewMyths.com, Free to read, [15 September 2019] Short Story - Fantasy

• ‘She was no witch’, ‘Green is more than skin deep’, ‘Break glass in case of emergency’, Curses & Cauldrons, Blood Song Books [31 August 2019] Drabbles (100-word stories) - Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction

• ‘Strands of Our Tomorrows’, The Arcanist, Free to read, Podcast available (Episode 6), [9 August 2019] Short Story - Fantasy

• ‘Indenture is a Nervous System’, Worlds: Dark Drabbles #1, Black Hare Press, [25 June 2019] Drabble (100-word story) - Science Fiction

• ‘See Me’, Micro Madness 2019 Finalist, [12 June 2019] Micro - Fantasy

• ‘An Avian Introduction’, GeyserCon Book: Something Strange Happened in Rotorua Competition, Not available for purchase [31 May 2019] Prose Poem - Fantasy

• ‘A New Cold War’, Daily Science Fiction, Free to read, [23 April 2019] Short Story - Science Fiction/Climate Fiction

• ‘When supermarkets go bad’, Breach Zine Issue 10, [March 2019] Poem - Dark Fantasy

2018

Awards and OTHER EXCITING THINGS

• Finalist, Micro Madness Competition 2018, National Flash Fiction Day for ‘Big Brother’

Published

• ‘Revolutions’, New Orbit Magazine Issue 4 [November 2018] Short Story - Science Fiction

• ‘A Devoted Husband’, Breach Zine Issue 9 [November 2018] Short Story - Dark Fantasy Finalist, Best Short Story, Sir Julius Vogel Awards

• ‘Common Denominator’, Wild Musette Journal Issue 1802 [October 2018] Short Story - Science Fiction

• ‘Big Brother’, Micro Madness 2018 Finalist, [13 June 2018] Micro - Science Fiction