The notebook of a globally feral author finding balance through connection with nature, ancestral skills, and different cultures. Words and kindness.

Once upon a time, I packed a bag, caught a series of trains, and marched out into the coastal temperate rainforest of western Scotland. I stayed out there from September to December, alone, as summer blew into autumn and then froze into an early, hard winter. I gathered water, food, and fuel, and built a shelter to live in. I also kept a journal and captured many images and, here, fifteen years later, I shall share this adventure with you.

A serial fantasy fiction, introducing characters and locations, some of which will reappear in other Tales of The Lesser Evil. This is not quite grimdark, but it is on the darker, perhaps less shiny side of fantasy. Dust and Death takes two of the surviving characters from Only One Death and continues their story. In a land of dust, some things are best left buried, terrors that can strain the very balance of the mind: fear is one thing, but this goes far, far beyond that.

A serial fantasy fiction, introducing characters and locations, some of which will reappear in other Tales of The Lesser Evil. This is not quite grimdark, but it is on the darker, perhaps less shiny side of fantasy. At its heart, Only One Death takes the well-loved trope of a group of adventurers on a quest, then turns this upside down and inside out, demonstrating how danger, secret motives and hidden desires can swiftly tear apart the strongest of groups.

Here, I share the voiceovers from my letters as a podcast. I talk about nature, about being a part of it, not apart from, I talk about ancestral skills, or bushcraft, and I talk about our possible futures as a species living in uncertain, often dangerous times. All with hope, joy, and kindness.

A section where I share my free (mostly) monthly letter, as I have been doing for over four years now. Older months are eventually paywalled.

How we can use hunter-fisher-gatherer ancestral skills and knowledge, in order to bring a deep sense of empowerment and calm in today's modern, busy world and, through these skills and this knowledge, help return a balance to nature. A guide and a discussion both.

Set between the two interwoven episodes of Flin’s life featured in Death in Harmony, Dancing With Death tells a story of discovering friendship, of hope, of answers and questions, monsters, and terrible, horrific danger.

A photo and some words.

Death and Taxes—the only certainties in life—examines the lengths one woman will go to in order to provide security for her family. Lengths which keep getting longer and longer. Get it right and Merie will be free. If not, there’ll be four more orphans on the streets.

An assassin, her apprentice, and one final murder. A city where it is law to wear a mask in public. And someone—or something—hiding in the shadows. Something which wants them to fail. Fatally.

No one will take her child from her—it is always best to run but, to defend the innocent, sometimes you must fight.

All the posts I shared prior to 2025 covering my 2010 Scottish woodland adventure. Each is paywalled, each is archived. For the latest versions of these, please see the section A Fall in Time.