Great news! Occult Detective Magazine is on the shortlist for a British Fantasy Award for Best Magazine!
Our latest offering is Mythos Special Volume 2 with a variety of Cosmic Horror and Lovecraftian tales.
https://mybook.to/ODMMY-02
#Indie #SmallPress #horror #OccultDetective #Carnacki #KingInYellow

Mischief in the Wood is a YA novel by Tina Rath, from Cathaven Press. It's cosy horror, full of folklore and magic.
Three teens venture into an ancient wood and then into Elfland to recover a mysterious lost thing, but, as the ballad of Tam Lin tells us, it isn't safe for mortals to go on such dangerous journeys and they'll need all their wits and courage to survive.
Now available in print and ebook.
https://mybook.to/RathMitW
#bookstadon #indie #ebook #YA
#folklore #ballads #fairyland

Cathaven Press also published my big space-opera, Warbird. It's about the Terran Space Corps Vessel Vienna, a voidship, which makes first contact with a race of winged, eight-limbed aliens on her maiden voyage. It's available on Amazon in print and ebook.

As I mentioned before I run Cathaven Press with my partner. We publish Occult Detective Magazine - we're working on ODM Mythos Special Volume 2 at the moment - but we have other titles available on Amazon in print and ebook versions. There's The Angry Dead, a book of ghost stories by Rosemary Pardoe, about church art restorer, Jane Bradshawe. That one has a gargoyle illo for each story by Autumn Barlow. She also illustrated A Solemn Curfew by Bev Allen, a collection of cosy folk horror tales.

As well as writing SF & Fantasy I run Cathaven Press with my partner. We're a very small indie press based in the UK. We've published Occult Detective Magazine since issue 6 - it's now at 10 and we're working on 11. There's also a Cthulhu Mythos special. ODM contains diverse fiction by diverse authors, articles and book reviews. If you're interested it's available on Amazon in print and as ebooks. #books #IndiePress #fiction #horror #detective

The second shawl, which I made for my artist friend Morgan Fitzsimons for her eighty-fifth birthday. The pattern is Celtic Dragonfly again by Tania Richter and I used Stylecraft Batik Swirl DK in Norwegian Forest and Stylecraft Life DK in Black Nepp.
#knitting #DoubleKnittingTechnique

Thought I'd post some photos of my latest double knit shawls. This one is from the Celtic Celestial Wolves pattern by Tania Richter. I used Stylecraft Special DK in dark brown and King Cole Shine DK in Safari.
#Knitting #Shawl #DoubleKnittingTechnique

#yarnuary Here's a photo of the Last Dance on the Beach blanket. It was a crochet along with a new square released each week. There were videos to show the new stitches - very helpful.

#yarnuary Here's another shawl designed by Tania Richter and knitted by me.

#yarnuary My grandmother taught me to knit and crochet, and I made a lot of jumpers in my late teens and early twenties. Highlight of each year was the new patterns from Phildar (UK yarn maker) using their lovely new season yarn. Stopped knitting for many years, then restarted with a huge crochet blanket (Last Dance on the Beach crochet along from Scheepjes). Now I knit socks and double knitting picture shawls (patterns by Tania Richter).