Thrilled from breeches to ruff to be asked to write a Shakespeare episode for the tremendous Amelia Project. With the Bard experiencing a historic stretch of writer’s block, how can his ghostwriters escape their impossible job?

Thank you so much to W&N and Orion Publishing for all the work and love you've poured into this book, and to all the booksellers and readers who've boarded the train and been so supportive!! ❤️❤️🚂🚂

“Inspired and hilarious” Thank you to the Financial Times (Financial Times) for including High Vaultage in their list of Best Summer Books of 2024!

Objection!

No Victoriocity at London Podcast Festival this year but there will be Tom Crowley (Not Here Anymore)! Grab your tickets to this live show of his hilarious sketch podcast Crowley Time (and go check it out on your podcast apps too, for goodness sake!)

Two days left to snap up High Vaultage on ebook for 99p/c, a frankly ridiculous price that only further proves the insanity of late-capitalism-flavoured technology that we spent 400 pages writing jokes about. Grab a copy! brnw.ch/21wLzpK

2 days left to grab High Vaultage in ebook form for the absurdly low price of 99p (UK) / 99c (US and Canada)!

People of Birmingham! Tomorrow we (Chris Sugden and Jen Sugden) are doing a panel at Waterstones with the marvellous Caimh McDonnell and Grace Curtis, chatting, Q&Aing and signing books (presumably just the ones we wrote or the staff will get quite cross). Come along!

People of Yorkshire! Chris Sugden and Jen Sugden are finally escaping Even Greater London and will be at The Grove Bookshop in Ilkley this Thursday! We’ll be there with the magnificent Sarah Brooks, talking all things alternate history and speculative fiction. Come along!

I've been SO wanting to sharing this! Thanks to Tor.com (Now at @Reactormag) for hosting the cover reveal for THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH. A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a world of violence, cruelty and revenge... Link in comments

⚡️‘Joyously funny’ (The Financial Times)  High Vaultage is released in the USA & Canada on 22nd October! To celebrate, we’re giving one lucky person (based anywhere) a signed edition. Simply like & repost to enter. Ends Saturday noon UK time. Good luck!

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️High Vaultage is now out in hardback in the USA & Canada! Limited signed editions available. All details via link in bio!

Bloomin’ eck!

#FutureWorldsPrize 2025 is now open, and we’re looking for unpublished writers of colour based in the UK or Ireland. Find out more here: futureworldsprize.co.uk/2025-prize/

I had a lovely time putting together a list of the five things I learned while writing ‘High Vaultage’ for the great Chuck Wendig’s blog! You can read what they were here: terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/10… 🟢💰🎩🧠🐶

"I might not be allowed to say this, but this is the best shortlist I’ve seen in my time judging this prize" The year's funniest books, the shortlist of the 2024 Champagne Bollinger @EverymansLib Wodehouse Prize: fivebooks.com/best-books/fun… Books by Andrew Hunter Murray, Dolly Alderton

Hmm. The other place seems a lot like what this place used to be like. Find me there:

What a night! 🥂 A round of applause to the wonderful shortlisted authors for the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Congratulations to them and to our winner Ferdia Lennon, for his exquisite debut novel Glorious Exploits. Champagne Bollinger #BEWP2024

⚡️HIGH VAULTAGE⚡️by Chris Sugden and Jen Sugden is out TODAY in paperback in the UK! Check out the affordable luxury via geni.us/5zk3n.

When Bryan Camp says your novel will "linger in you like a bullet," you know you've written something that hits hard. So grateful for this stunning blurb for THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH