My Books
From fiction and poetry to anthologies and practical writing guides, this is where you'll find everything I've published—including the really early stuff! There's plenty more to come too, with the Novice to Novelist Mini Guide series on its way.
My Novels and Poetry Collections
When dreams can be watched like films, sleep is no longer an escape. Because if dreams can be seen, they can be judged.
A journey through the self: from darkness to light, destruction to love.
In five chapters and thirty-eight poems, Me maps the shifting landscapes of one woman's inner world as she finds her way home.
Anthologies
I've also had the pleasure of contributing stories and poems to the following anthologies.
At dinner tables across the world, the question lingers: Who or what would you be, if you had another chance?
In this evocative and wide-ranging collection, writers, poets, and illustrators explore the many answers to that question. From lives lived across centuries and lifetimes, to quiet reflections on roads not taken, to humorous, heartfelt, and haunting glimpses of alternate selves.
Stories are magical things. They’re alive, if you want them to be. And Una Plumb wants just that as she sets up a new writing group in the heart of France.
This anthology of short stories skips between the tragic and the magical, the English and the French, the curious and the wonderful. But as all the characters come together, their stories merging, we learn one thing: we may all be very different but at our hearts, we’re one and the same.
Earlier Publications (as Riley J. Froud)
When the not-so-intrepid Mr Sharpe finds a stranger unfurling in his kitchen, little does he realise that he is going to be dragged through an eye-rolling, jaw-flapping, thigh-slapping world of magic and mayhem. Queen Queenie and her lover have lost their son. That’s right, mislaid him. They can’t remember where they’ve put him and now they want him back. All they know is two things: that they placed him in another world for safe-keeping and that his name is John Sharpe. So they start sorting through the lot…
King McElroy is safe in the knowledge that Queenie, having been stripped of her magic, can’t return to Underworld – or can she? In this exciting and silly adventure through a magical world, the Underlings experience war for the first time. As McElroy and Queenie fight for the best of three in the hopes of winning the throne for themselves, McCavity catches up with an old friend, Una Plumb. Who will win the war and the hearts of all in Underworld? Who exactly is Una Plumb? And what sort of schemes have the Underlings got themselves into this time?