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For writers
Come and join my growing community of more than two thousand aspiring authors as I help you unlock the secrets of building a career with your fiction.
I’m well known on social media for encouraging new authors; I’ve run creative writing workshops at many universities in the UK and US; and I wrote the bestselling guide About Writing (published by Gollancz).
I’ll help you delve into the inner workings of the writing and publishing process, share my experiences and give you access to exclusive blog posts on a wide range of related subjects. I’ll also be running regular question and answer sessions, so you can get answers to your most burning questions.
Whatever stage of your career you may be at, I’m writing this newsletter to help you achieve your goals, and write your own story.
For Readers
If you’re here as a reader of my work, you’ll find plenty of behind-the-scenes news and content, plus exclusive audio readings and a monthly update on events and forthcoming projects.
Be the first in the know when new books and projects are announced, and join in the conversation with other readers and genre enthusiasts.
But be warned: if you know me, you know my attention hops around all over the place, so you’ll get a wide range of topics and thoughts, just as if you were talking to me in a bar or cafe.
Who is Gareth?
I have been a full-time writer for almost twenty years now, and in that time, I’ve had eighteen books published. They’ve been nominated for many awards, adapted for TV, and translated into eleven languages. I’ve even had a guide to creative writing published by Gollancz.
I started writing as a teenager, and was lucky to count Diana Wynne Jones and Helen Dunmore as early mentors.
I’ve twice won the coveted British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, and have become one of the most-shortlisted authors in the award’s 50-year history. I’ve also been a finalist for the Locus, British Fantasy, Seiun, and Canopus awards.
My Embers of War trilogy is currently being adapted for television, and I have co-written groundbreaking stories with bestselling authors Aliette de Bodard and Peter F. Hamilton.
My short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld and Interzone, and been featured in numerous anthologies, including The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois. A comprehensive selection of my best stories will be published by Titan Books in the collection Who Will You Save? (coming summer 2025).
I have written nonfiction for The Guardian, The Irish Times, SFX, and Acoustic Magazine, and I currently write a monthly column for The Engineer.
I am a popular guest at conventions and literary festivals and my work has been translated into German, Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Greek, French, Italian, Japanese, and Croatian.
The two things I love most about being online are:
Giving back by helping other authors
Bringing my readers along on my journey
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