So proud that my friend the brilliant graphic artist and Blakean John Riordan has featured CREATURE at the blog Mindless Ones (UK). As a cinephile and visual expert, John happily singles out the futuristic flash-foward scene near the end of my novel, where the Creature (in a bit of time-bending it was fun to create) […]
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On Wed., May 20th, I’ll be presenting “Reanimating Frankenstein: Reading Mary Shelley in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” online via a kind invitation from the University of Birmingham (UK)’s Centre for Digital Cultures. Later on this summer, I’ll be speaking in person on this topic at the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Conference at […]
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What fun it was to talk with host Charity Nebbe on the Iowa Public Radio program “Talk of Iowa” yesterday about CREATURE, Mary Shelley, my January-term study-abroad course, and the cloud of witnesses cheering us on. Here’s the podcast: https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk-of-iowa/2026-03-03/iowa-author-explores-mary-shelleys-life-beyond-frankenstein
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Watched it with a large and lively group of students on a big screen last night (“I haven’t read the book or seen any of the other movies,” one confessed, “I’m just here for Jacob Elordi”) and have to say I was more underwhelmed than I’d hoped to be. (Although I did enjoy the Creature […]
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Delighted and grateful to share the news that CREATURE: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein has received five stars and the “Highly Recommended Award of Excellence” from The Historical Fiction Company. This designation has come my way with a lovely review from The Historical Fiction Company, included below: Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley […]
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Today is the official publication day of my novel Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, now out from Sea Crow Press. See the events page on this site for more about upcoming readings, and thanks to all who have supported me and my books along the way!
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On Valentine’s Day 2023, an AI chatbot came to life. A NYT tech writer named Kevin Roose engaged it in conversation. It told him its name was Sydney. And then – apparently out of nowhere – it confessed it wanted to crash the internet. It wanted to dominate the world. [Adding a devil emoji – […]
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