Well hello. It’s been a while. There is definitely News, though. I’ve been hiding away for a couple of years, buried in babies and finishing my second novel, Scabby Queen, which I’m still amazed to be able to announce will come out in April 2020 with one of my all-time favourite publishing houses, 4th Estate.…

Fishnet has been out of print since December 2017, after collapse of the publishing house Freight Books. Therefore I’m absolutely tickled pink to announce that it will be back in shops from August 30th 2018, in a beautiful new edition published by Black and White Publishing. The new edition will also include a new Afterword,…

Hello! Been taking a little time out, the reason for which can be seen below… Anyway, I’m delighted to have been asked, along with my partner Alan Bissett (and our very new son) to be the new patron of Craigmillar Books for Babies, a really excellent organisation promoting the sharing of books and rhymes with…

I am stunned, shocked, and absolutely delighted to be able to announce that Fishnet won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize this morning. I’d like to extend huge thanks to everyone who participated in the public vote, and to the judging panel for being so complimentary about the book. Here’s the judging panel live! I…

This is personal. It can’t not be. I’ve been trying to write a dispassionate, rational and constructive blog post about the closure of the Arches, which was announced on Wednesday, for over two days now. I can’t do it. I did get angry, like, swearing-my-head-off angry, at someone on Twitter who told me to stop…

This has been a very strange couple of months. I’ve been talking about Fishnet, and getting into some great, interesting discussions about sex work and sex workers’ rights everywhere from Clydebank Library (their brilliant Booked! festival is well worth a look) to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Things are slowly drifting back to normal now.…

I had to take lots of song lyrics out of Fishnet before I handed the finished manuscript in, as song lyrics cost a LOT to publish. Some songs about sex work; some songs about love and loneliness and missing someone and fancying girls and looking for something. Anyway, I’ve put together a Spotify playlist (15…

There’s an interview with me (about Fishnet) and the blimming great Laura Lee in the Sunday Mail today. It’s a good piece, but I want to clarify a couple of things that have probably come out in the subedit (the journalist herself was spot on with her understanding of the issues): 1.) I said I…

. Still can’t quite believe it’s actually happening, but my novel is going to be published on the 6th of April 2015. After that, look out for me at loads of events all over the country, because I’ll be hawking it like mad this spring and summer. If you want to get yourself an advance…