Elmwood Tales

Atomic

My main focus at the moment, a novel where science and magic are one and the same.

After years away from her homeland, a pharmacist is wrenched back by a horrific event. Finding herself surrounded by injustice and rebellion, she must face up to the reasons she fleed to another shore in the first place, and discover if she has it in her to change to a cruel world.

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On the Shore

Based around the concept of 'Belonging', and inspired by my current novel 'Atomic', this piece was written for a spoken word event held by Lit(erature) to the Tit and Women of Colour Belfast for the Mental Health Arts NI Mindset Festival.

Read this piece now over on my Patreon.

"If she could draw down those dark clouds and cover herself with their fog, she would. Would bury
herself in the hollow hills surrounding the city, dwell underground in those mounds where
ancient secrets are kept safe. Let her feelings slumber, just as she has these past few years."

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Vines

A finished novelette written to see if I could start a story where a character commits a terrible crime, and yet as the story progresses, the reader starts to feel some connection to them.

A con man finds himself unwittingly overcome by his new mark.

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Displaced

My first novel, a secondary world historical romance, currently in the final stages of editing.

Eight years after her exile, a woman has built a life she adores in a nation where she is the equal of any man. But when her secret past catches up with her, it threatens to bring everything to ruin.

A prince stands on the cusp of a new life, one planned for him since birth. But all he feels is the last thread of freedom slipping through his fingers. When he’s betrayed by the one he loves deepest, his cracks begin to show.

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Prompts

I'm currently writing a number of prompts at the moment that will allow me to play about with voice, tense and structure. They are all anywhere between 500 and 2,000 words.

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