Author of Glasgow and Scots-Noir
THE STORM GIRL
The year is 1937.
Sarah Flynn is a 12 year old Glaswegian – “the daughter of a dark city”.
During a storm, she is visited by a Skysprite.
Together, they adventure through the Glasgow shipyards, the mysterious Castle of Dunscaith on the Isle of Skye, and the Empire State Building in New York.
Together, they face death, loss, shame, and the existential crisis of looming world war.
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Notes for Publishers/Agents
Market: YA
Genre: Fantasy, speculative historical fiction - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe meets Pan's Labyrinth
Status: Ready for Submission
Word Count: 77k
AMONGST THE BROKEN THINGS
In the City of Culture, children are missing.
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It is 1990, and the streets of Glasgow are being flooded with ecstasy; petty gangs fight over their patch. Poll tax riots, civil unrest, and illegal raves rage against the celebrations of art, music and culture, with the eyes of the world watching.
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But underneath the clash and noise, something awful is happening. A child goes missing, and then another. This is no dear, green place.
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Notes for Publishers/Agents
Market: Adult
Genre: Crime - "Trainspotting meets Taggart"
Status: Ready for Submission
Word Count: 75k
ITCH
Plagued by an infernal need to scratch, with no relief from the world of medicine, lawyer Jonathan Fitch finds ever increasingly harmful ways to relieve his itch whilst hiding his scarred, weeping skin to colleagues and the court.
Desperate, he stumbles across a group on the dark web, who call themselves The Exquisites. They promise escape from his affliction through transcendent pain; and he opens the door to a terrifying underworld.
Notes for Publishers/Agents
Market: Adult
Genre: Crime/Horror
Status: In the works
Word Count: expected 80k
IRONTOOTH
In 1954, hundreds of Glaswegian children descended on the city's Southern Necropolis, hunting down the alleged devourer of two of their own. The creature they sought was a 7 foot tall vampire, boasting iron fangs.
For Ellen McNally, the destruction of the monster was a matter of some personal vengeance. Her little brother, Charlie, had been taken by the beast.
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But Old Irontooth was no interloper. He was Glasgow's oldest resident, and he knew his city in the day, and in the night.
"Irontooth" is a fictionalised horror account of the real events of the "Gorbals Vampire"
Notes for Publishers/Agents
Market: YA
Genre: Horror/Adventure
Status: In the works
Word Count: expected 60k
