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UK Paperback Release!

Hear ye, hear ye: Our Hideous Progeny is out in paperback today!!*

(In the UK/Europe/commonwealth, at least – sorry, rest-of-the-world, you’ll have to wait ’til May! πŸ˜‰ )

A few bits of news & announcements:

Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month!

I’m thrilled to announce that OHP has been picked as Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Month!

This means that there’ll be some FAB window displays at various locations around Scotland! I’ll also be visiting as many as I can to do stock signings, so keep an eye out for those. πŸ™‚

Giveaways!

Fancy a free copy of OHP (& other goodies)? Check out these giveaways ASAP!

eBook Sale – get OHP for 99p!

For a limited time, the UK ebook of Our Hideous Progeny is on sale for only Β£0.99! Snap up your copy now on Kindle, Kobo, Google Play, and more.

(P.S. Sorry US folks – but look out for the US paperback and cheaper Kindle prices in May!)

P.S. It’s Award Eligibility Season! πŸ‘€πŸ†

If you’re reading for any literary, historical fiction, or speculative fiction awards this year, please consider OHP! If you’re judging for any such awards and are in need of a review copy, contact me and I’ll set you up.

Best of luck to all my fellow fabulous 2023 authors! 🌟

New Interview: LA Public Library Blog

I had an interview come out this week from the LA Public Library blog! I talk about historical & literary inspirations, my favourite Frankenstein adaptation, my dream cast for a hypothetical Our Hideous Progeny movie, and much more. Mad props to librarian Daryl M. for not only coming up with some fascinating questions (and for giving OHP such a wonderfully kind review!), but also lovingly hyperlinking every author and historical figure I mentioned in the interview! There must be some kind of librarian award for that, LOL.

You can read the full interview here, and the book review here!

New Article: The best historical books about women in science

I have a new article out today from Shepherd.com! πŸ“šπŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬

Shepherd is a book recommendation website that relies on lists compiled by authors, allowing you to find reliable recs on specific topics ranging from “The best unexpected love stories in historical romance” to “The best books to introduce you to Black London.” (I really like their “Browse by Wikipedia topic” search function – super handy for finding research recs!)

For my list, I shared five of my favourite historical books featuring women scientists (both real and fictional)! These include fantastic books by Carrie Brown, Marie Benedict, Catherine Chung, Tracy Chevalier, and Margot Lee Shetterly. You can read the whole post here.

New Interview: Fantasy Book Critic

I had an interview out this week in the Fantasy Book Critic blog! I talked about Frankenstein, the writing/character-creation process, and lots more; you can read the full interview on Fantasy Book Critic’s website here!

New Article: 5 Ways to Make Your Historical Fiction Ring True

5 Ways to Make Your Historical Fiction Ring True

I had a new article out this week in Writers Digest on writing historical fiction!

Would you like to write historical fiction? Are you feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of research, or unsure how to get into the mindset of a character from a different era? Maybe one of these tips will help. You can read the full article here!

New Article: OHP Playlist on Largehearted Boy

I had such fun putting together this list for the blog Largehearted Boy’s awesome “Book Notes” series, where authors highlight songs that influenced the writing of their book! I got to talk about some of the songs I listened to on loop while writing OHP, and also share my full writing playlist. (Spoilers: there are a lot of film soundtracks, lol.)

You can read the full article here, or listen to my full (seven hour long, whoof) writing playlist for Our Hideous Progeny here!

New Article: Writers Digest Q&A

C. E. McGill: On Revisiting Classic Science Fiction

I recently had a Q&A come out in Writers Digest! ✏️ I talked about the writing process, the publishing process, & bringing OHP from its initial stages as my final year project in university to a finished novel. You can read the full interview here!

New Article: On Victorian Paleoart & the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

I had another article come out recently, this one from Literary Hub!

Do you like pictures of dinosaurs? What about real old pictures of dinosaurs? Want to hear how said pictures inspired my Frankenstein spin-off novel, Our Hideous Progeny? Read the full article here!

New Article: “Unnatural Bodies” for Crimereads

I have a new essay out from Crimereads today! I had tremendous fun writing this one, exploring some of the queer history of Frankenstein/horror in general, and how that informed my writing of Mary in Our Hideous Progeny.

(And of course, I had to touch on Susan Stryker’s legendary essay “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage“!)

You can read my essay for CrimeReads here. And don’t forget – Our Hideous Progeny is finally out today in the US, available in a bookstore near you!

New Excerpt: read now on Tor.com!

It was a grey and foggy March day when we brought it to life at last…

Happy US publication day!! πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ To celebrate, Tor is putting out a brand new excerpt from OHP.

You can read the prologue and part of the first chapter of Our Hideous Progeny now on the Tor website!

OHP is available now wherever good books are sold! (Or at your local library, if you yell (politely) at the librarians to acquire it. πŸ–€)

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