Sean and his daughter Catherine will be attending the World Convention in Calgary in late October/early November.

Sean will also be at the World Science Fiction Convention, Anticipation, in Montreal in 2009, and is hoping to go to Utopiale later that year.

Sean's time travel detective story. The Constant Past, has just been published in the anthology 'Dreaming Again.' It features a librarian and Vanity Press publisher joining forces to thwart a time tavelling serial killer.

Sean has sold his story 'The Spiral Briar' to Fantasy and Science Fiction. Although fantasy, Sean invented a new type of steam engine for this story. He has also sold 'Mother of Champions' to Interzone: be nice to cheetahs, they are earth's dominant lifeform in this story.

Not another Batman lookalike? Sean rides in to collect his PhD.

Sean's story 'The Constant Past' features a librarian and a borrower who is a time-travelling serial killer. It appears in 'Dreaming Again' edited by Jack Dann.

Sean's story "A Ring of Green Fire" provides the grand finale in the 'Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy' alongside the extreme fiction of 24 of the genre's most popular authors.

'Voyage of the Shadowmoon' was published in Germany in April.

To the Cat's great relief, (see pic below) Sean passed his PhD with flying colours and no need for a rewrite! The Cat claims credit for the immaculate references, and now only answewrs to Dr Cat.

Now that the PhD saga is over, Sean has started writing short fiction again. In the past months his stories The Twilight Year (F&SF), Oblivion (2012), and Striking Fear (Trust Me) were published ... okay, so he never really stopped writing short stories.

Before the Storm, Sean's latest novel for young adults, was published in July 2007. Although marketed to young adults, the book has proven a big hit with older adults too. (Check back here for news about a sequel.) Here are just what some reviewers thought about Before the Storm:
"Think Terminator 2 meets Playing Beattie Bow";
" ... an action-packed YA adventure novel, with some lovely characters ... ";
"McMullen's writing just seems to get sexier and funnier with every book." Read more reviews here.

Sean's previous Moonworlds novel, Voidfarer, was published by Tor in February 2006 (see Excerpts).

His new story THE TWILIGHT YEAR was published in Fantasy and Science Fiction (USA) in January 2008.

'Measure of Eternity' published in Interzone (#205) August 2006

The inside story on the creation of Voidfarer and Before the Storm - interviewed and entertainingly grilled by Rob Jan from RRR.