A Merciful Sea is out today in audio! Thank you to everyone who has hyped up these audiobook releases – it means so much to me! I hope you enjoy revisiting the trilogy (or reading for the first time!) 🌊🏳️‍🌈 Thank you to the audio publisher WF Howes and my amazing narrator @rorybarnettvo.bsky.social

New author photo! 🌊

THE DEVIL TO PAY releases today on audio from @wfhowes.bsky.social, narrated by the fantastic @rorybarnettvo.bsky.social. I'm so excited that these books are coming out back to back so I (and you!) don't have to wait! 🔗below

Beautiful beautiful Bath!

Gorgeous walk along the Pembroke coast! ☀️

Cannot recommend the amazing Erebus exhibition at Pembroke Dock highly enough! Absolutely breath taking 🤩

It's here! LEEWARD releases today on audio from @wfhowes.bsky.social and the fantastic @rorybarnettvo.bsky.social - I'm SO excited to listen to it! 🤩 Q: What characters/moments are you excited to hear? 🔉🎧 🔗 below

I am OVER THE MOON to announce that the entire Nightingale/Courtney trilogy is coming out in audio NEXT MONTH! 🌈🌊⚓ July 9: Leeward July 16: The Devil to Pay July 23: A Merciful Sea I'm so grateful that @wfhowes.bsky.social are publishing them with the absolutely amazing @rorybarnettvo.bsky.social

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️‍🌈 I only have the beginnings of a rainbow here but better a small rainbow than no rainbow at all ♥️ My Nightingale/Courtney series has two queer protagonists and is written by ME, a queer author! Our community is here, we've always been here, and we're not going anywhere! 🏳️‍🌈

My latest newsletter is out! I'm hoping that next month I can share a very exciting announcement so do subscribe if you don't want to miss that!👀 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Happy third birthday to Leeward! I cannot believe my debut has been out in the world for three years now. I'm so proud of this book and am absolutely honoured and so so grateful for all the kind responses to it. Thank you so much 🌈🌊⚓

A little sketch of my dear queer naval captain Hiram Nightingale 🏳️‍🌈🌊⚓

Had a wonderful time at the inaugural Figarama writing fair from Jean G-Owen! Attended some brilliant events, watched some great open mics and book launches, and today delivered my historical fiction workshop and a reading of Leeward 🌈♥️🌊

Such a fab time at the Tides of Time panel tonight as part of Portsmouth BookFest with Carolyn Kirby and Dorian Ravenscroft! Fabulous to talk about maritime fiction and queer rep and all things the sea!! Thanks to Nikki from the Bookish Mindset for such amazing questions!!

February, is LGBT+ History Month. Historical fiction, and History, are essential subjects to show queer voices - to show that we have already existed and we're not going anywhere! There is still work to be done and times are very scary rn but I find strength in the power of our community🌈❤️

First post of 2026 to say a big thank you to everyone who has rated and reviewed the N/C series on Goodreads! There are now over 1000 ratings! These are SO important to authors, especially to ones writing lesser-loved genres, so thank you to all who have helped give these boys visibility 🥰

Greenwich is incredible!

Had a great time last night at the Local Authors Showcase at the Play On Words Festival📕 A fantastic initiative and a great community feel of creative people. Also so pleased to find Leeward at Waterstones Lymington amongst some lovely company including Hornblower ⚓🌈

DOUBLE WINNER!!! To say I'm shocked and so grateful is an understatement! I have notoriously bad luck with awards so to win the Fiction category and Book of the Year at the Isle of Wight Book Awards 2025 is amazing 😭😭😭😭🥰 I'm so appreciative to the judges ❤️

Today is A Merciful Sea's paperback release day! There are a lot of mixed emotions today - excitement, sadness, gratitude... Mostly I am so appreciative of all the people who have supported this trilogy and given it a chance 🥰

Press ganging my assistant into service to show off the paperback edition of A Merciful Sea!! The paperback is out on October 2, a week from today! 🌊🌈 It's amazing to see AMS in paperback, she looks gorgeous 😭😭😭 (Also representing my Leeward jumper 🤣)

My author copies of the paperback of A Merciful Sea are on their way!! 🌊🌈⚓

Always a strange feeling to send your manuscript off to your agent! It's hard to emphasise how intense and all-consuming this story has been. There were many times I wanted to abandon it all but it's finally done 😭😭

Trying to channel the love I still have for Leeward as I struggle through my current (nightmarish) manuscript 😅😂

I'm sure my Feathers McGraw has a mind of his own 🤣 Every time I sit down at my computer in the mornings, he's turned to look another direction 🤣🤣

It's a relatively serious piece but you should know that I unironically used this meme in it 😂

How I periodically feel while writing 😱😂

Pleased to say that A MERCIFUL SEA is in Waterstones' pre-order sale! Just use the code SUMMER25 when ordering 😍 The paperback is due out on 2 October 🌊🏳️‍🌈

I'm officially moving over from the bird app! Currently following as many people as I can here haha. Here are my babies, the queer Age of Sail Nightingale/Courtney series ⚓🌊🏳️‍🌈