About me

Hi! I thought it was about time I spruced up this page now that a year has gone past since my first novel, ‘Captain’s Surrender’ was published.

Captain’s Surrender is an Age of Sail m/m historical romance, published by Linden Bay Romance after it had won their ‘Starlight Writing Competition’.  At that point (2007) they were only taking on one new author a year, and running an annual competition to see who that new author would be.  Well, for 2007, the new author was me   Captain’s Surrender was published on the 1/1/2008.

Dear Author’s review of Captain’s Surrender

Since then I pretty much disappeared, though I was writing constantly.  I had a long short-story called 90% Proof accepted for publication by Freya’s Bower, but the anthology fell through because of editorial illness.  Then I resold it to MLR Press for one of their ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ anthologies, and currently it’s waiting for that to happen.

I also edited and revised a novel I had written ten years ago – The Witch’s Boy, a dark fantasy – and published that one myself.

Review of The Witch’s Boy by Ruth Sims, author of The Phoenix

Then I began writing False Colors, which took about a year to finish.  Another AoS m/m historical romance, this has been published by Running Press, a subsidiary of Perseus Books, and should be in a book-shop near you by 13th of April 2009.

Dear Author’s review of False Colors

My novella ‘The Wages of Sin’ – a Georgian Ghost story – has been contracted to MLR Press to go in an anthology called ‘The Mysterious’ with stories by Josh Lanyon and Laura Baumbach.  That’s due out in time for Halloween 2009.

I’ve recently finished writing the first draft of a contemporary holiday romance set in a Cornish surfing village – ‘Boys of Summer’.  That’s out with beta readers at the moment.

And I have a couple of projects to move onto next   Dragon of the Fen – my option book for Running Press – will be a tale of Saxon freedom fighters under Norman occupation.  And I’m hoping to do another AoS novella for Bristlecone Press, though that’s little more than a hope at present.