Free Reads

I have some free fiction available to read online at Archive of Our Own, as well as two novellas free to read on Amazon Kindle (Another Together and Another Beginning).

I have a short story T-Boys in the West Midlands Readers Network 5 Stories collection. 

I have a novel called An Unauthorised Fan Treatise free to read here.

Sealed with a Loving Kiss – a 4000-word short story inspired by Hidden Figures, featuring a queer love story, lots of science, and secret treasure – can be read in this anthology (more info)

Non-fiction writing

Bletchley Park – Location and the Writer; Great Minds; My Muse; The Best Advice I’ve received as a writer; How I Write; Marketing and Me – Writers Aloud Royal Literary Fund podcast (2023)

Writing Hopeful Climate Fiction – Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2023

Positivity in the apocalypse – Lauren James on engaging young readers with climate change science – The Author magazine (Spring 2022)

Little Nell is very much alive – Lauren James on the serialisation of novels – The Author magazine (Autumn 2021)

Including LGBT+ Characters in Children’s Fiction – Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2021

The best (and worst) on-screen female scientists – Den of Geek (2019)

7 Times Studying Science Taught Me To Be Brave – Buzzfeed (2017)

Scientific inaccuracies your favourite historical characters definitely believed –  The Guardian (2015)

The Hogwarts Houses of the Periodic Elements: A Critical Analysis – The Toast (2015)

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Childhood Sweethearts – A Quiet at the End of the World short story

Antique carriage ride – A Quiet at the End of the World deleted scene

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Romy’s blog (with extra Loch & Ness fics)

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Clove & Ella on the Titanic

Clove & Ella as Disney princesses

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A story about another of Kate & Matt’s lives

A deleted scene from 1854 – The Next Together

Deleted Scene from 2039 – The Next Together

A Harry Potter/The Next Together crossover

Matt’s Point of View Chapter 1 – The Next Together

SNAILS. (a short story about Kate and Matt set at University in 2019)

30 Short drabbles about Kate and Matt

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