Why I’m Releasing a New Novel Approximately Every Two Months

For a long time, my writing life happened in the margins.

Like many writers, I carried ideas around for years... fragments of stories, half-drafted novels, characters who wouldn’t quite let go. Some of those stories lived in notebooks, some in files marked Draft v7, others only in my head. They were waiting, quietly, for time.

In May 2025, I retired.

And suddenly, time arrived.

Retirement didn’t give me inspiration... I already had that. What it gave me was focus. The space to return to those ideas properly, to refine them, develop them, and finish them without interruption. Writing stopped being something I squeezed in, and became the work itself.

Over the past year, I’ve completed a number of novels across different worlds and genres. Some are psychological thrillers rooted in domestic realism, others explore historical resistance, surveillance, or moral compromise. A quieter strand of work... fantasy written for younger readers... has also been taking shape alongside them.

Rather than letting these books sit unseen, I’ve decided to release them steadily, approximately every two months.

This isn’t about rushing. Every book is finished, edited, and ready. What I’m choosing instead is momentum... for readers, and for myself. A regular release schedule allows each story its own moment while keeping a clear rhythm: write, release, breathe, repeat.

The next novel, The Way Back, is a continuation of the world introduced in Low Reach. It follows the same characters, but in the aftermath... when survival has already happened, and the consequences begin to surface. It will be released in February.

After that, other stories will follow. Some return to familiar worlds. Others stand alone. A quieter fantasy thread will also emerge in time, written with younger readers in mind but grounded in the same emotional seriousness that runs through all my work.

This blog will be a place to talk about that process... not in a promotional sense, but honestly. About writing, structure, silence, voice, and what it means to keep returning to difficult material because it matters.

If you’re reading along, thank you.

I hope you’ll find something here... in the books, or between them... that stays with you.