My name is Marti. You won’t like me, not many people do.
I’ve been absent from here for along time, mainly because not much has been going on, writing wise. But now things are stirring – I have two new books out this year. Three Bullets is a YA, one part of a Triptych; three novels written by three writers set in the same world – the UK as it might have been, or perhaps how it will be. Pete Kalu wrote One Drop, Tariq Mehmood wrote Second Coming …. and my Three Bullets completes the Triptych. You can read more about this and the other books on our Triptych website, Ruled Britannia or on Facebook.
England has been taken over by the Bloods, a far right Christian sect, white supremicists propped up by a fanatical new government in the USA. Marti, a mixed race trans girl, represents everything they hate in one person. All she wants to do is leave the country, even if it means dumping her baby brother Michael and her best friend Maude. But there she discovers that her dad might still be alive, and has had his mind re-written by the Bloods in the ERAC, the Evangelical Rehabilitation Centre in Huntingdon, she has no choice but to go down south into Blood’s territory, in the very slight hope that she can rescue him.
Needless to say, she’s furious about the whole thing.
Pete, Tariq and myself were interviewed by A M Dassu in the Portico Library’s Pathways to Publishing, part of the Manchester City of Literature, Festival of Libraries. You can listen to it here.
I’m doing a Fane event about the 25th anniversary of Junk and the launch of Three Bullets – details in the panel on the right.
Also out this year, my first book for younger readers …
Illustrated by the wonderful Chris Mould, Count is about a boy who boasts that he can count up to ten million. No one believes him – he doesn’t even believe it himself. But once he starts, he falls in love with the numbers and they fall in love with him …. and you just never an tell what numbers are going to do next.
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