About our authors

surprise!

Are you ready for the big reveal, the plot twist that’s going to… Okay, you know what? This is the least well-kept secret since that time Musk revealed Trump’s name is in the Epstein files – just infinitely less scandalous.

I write under two different pen names: Si Clarke for sci-fi and Elliott Hay for crime fiction.

It’s easier for marketing purposes to keep them separate. But I’m still just me – a sarcastic, loud-mouthed prick on a mission to destroy that old myth about Canadians being polite.

Whatever you call her, she shares her home with her partner and an assortment of waifs and strays. When not writing convoluted, inefficient stories, she spends her time telling financial services firms to behave more efficiently. When not doing either of those things, she can be found in the pub or shouting at people online — occasionally practising efficiency by doing both at once.

As someone who’s neurodivergent, an immigrant, and the proud owner of an invisible disability, she strives to present a realistically diverse array of characters in her stories.

She’s also a reader, mainly of science fiction and mysteries – though she’s been exploring more nonfiction lately too. She begs you not to make her pick favourites or else we’ll be here all day. But since you’re so insistent… Some of her recent favourites have included:

• Murderbot (the whole series) by Martha Wells
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Loneliness of the Deep Space Cargoist by J.S. Carter Gilson
• Civil Resistance by Erica Chenoweth
• The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin by DG Coutinho
• A Beginner’s Guide to Murder by Rosalind Stopps
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
• Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y. Davis

I told you not to let her get started.