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Cymera Writer’s Retreat
What we got up to Cadging a lift with the excellent Jay and a brand new friend, Kate, we wound our way out into the Scottish countryside to a rural farm that puts up accommodation to help them keep afloat. We got there after dark, and found the main lodge. That’s where I was staying.
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BSFA shortlisting for Godzilla As a Young Man Named Mike
I’m delighted to share that Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike has been shortlisted for a BSFA award for Best Short Fiction for works published in 2025! The British Science Fiction Association is a UK institution and their annual awards honour science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers from all across the world. The awards
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End of 2025 roundup and awards eligibility post!
Awards eligibility 2025 and a review of author events during the year and some photos of the things I saw.
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Writing with intrusive / distractive thoughts
A blog article about British science fiction and fantasy author E.M. Faulds’ take on dealing with neurodivergence / ADHD when writing.
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ECO24 starred review in Publishers Weekly
Wonderful news! The anthology from Violet Lichen and Apex Books, ECO24: Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction has received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly. My story, “Love, Scotland” is in this anthology, as you will remember from previous posts. I’m so excited! This is the first time anything I have been involved with has had this
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Final cover design and pre-orders for ECO24
Anthology announcement! ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction featuring climate change short story ready for pre-orders.
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I wish I’d written a bad story
Warning for high salt-content. I’m tired. I’m not the only one. I was discussing with a fellow author this morning, about how it feels like the Hunger Games* out there. Authors scrabbling and brawling for scraps of attention and approval in a machine designed to chew us up and spit us out. So Long Katniss
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Best of 2024 anthology inclusion
“Love, Scotland”, a climate fiction story by British scifi author E.M. Faulds to be republished in ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction.
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Podcastle story out end of July
My story “Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike” will be featured on PodCastle’s Disability Pride & Magic special at the end of July, 2025. I’ve been talking about this over on BlueSky, but here’s some more detail for the curious! Disability Pride? This is an event celebrating another spectrum of the human experience. Like
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E.M. Faulds Novella “Bring Me Home” out now!
Featuring Scottish science fiction, climate tech, sisters, and spaceships! I’m hugely thrilled that my SF novella, Bring Me Home, is out now with Wizard’s Tower Press! A tale of two sisters on the opposite sides of the world and the question, “what if you had a superpower but it was just the worst“. Book info:
Spaceships & Feelings
Words from a Scottish SFF author, E.M. Faulds
