I’m delighted to learn that my short story ‘Four Abstracts’ has been shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award.
This came as a complete surprise – and a welcome one. ‘Four Abstracts’ picks up the story of Beck, a character who first appeared as a baby in my novella A Thread of Truth more than a decade ago. I’m particularly fond of this piece – I found it very interesting to dig deeper into the personal history of the Hathaway family – and it’s wonderful to have it acknowledged in this way by the BFS electorate.
Congratulations to the other BFA nominees, and in particular to Mark Morris, shortlisted in the Best Anthology category for New Fears (Titan), the anthology in which ‘Four Abstracts’ originally appeared, and also to Malcolm Devlin, shortlisted in the Best Collection category for his debut You Will Grown Into Them (Unsung Stories), one of the most original and assured new collections of 2017.