Welcome to the ‘Visions to Words’ archive: container of blog posts about the fictional worlds of V.M. Andrews. Including stories about alien contact, eco-magic, magical realism, dystopian science fiction, urban fantasy, ancient myths retold and inter-galactic space travel. Pretty much everything that is weird and far-fetched. To receive their blog posts, and more, in your mailbox, subscribe to the free monthly newsletter here:
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Alien invasion stories often begin with a dramatic spectacle: light splits the sky, a fleet of horrifying ships appears above the city, emergency response teams speed through the streets, governments panic, crowds run, buildings fall, and so on. There is power in that kind of story. It gives us the Read more
The strange world of The Lumenkin: A Story of Alien Arrival and Ecological Awakening contains luminous forests, hidden fae realms and an alien encounter unlike any you have read before. The Story & Art Bundle contains the complete eBook, the original artworks that inspired it, and the newly expanded Illustrated Read more
Old myths keep calling me back because they never feel finished. We inherit them as though they are fixed objects: Persephone was abducted. Medusa was a monster. Gaia was Mother Earth. Erebus belonged to darkness and Hemera to daylight. The stories arrive already interpreted for us, their characters assigned their Read more
A free illustrated reader’s guide to my strange fiction I have never been very good at staying inside one fictional box. Sometimes I write about ancient gods and forgotten women. Sometimes about magical forests, sentient rivers or visitors from somewhere beyond Earth. At other times I find myself wondering what artificial Read more
The Lumenkin was going to be a short work of eco-sci-fi exploring first contact between the fairy realm on Earth and an alien intelligence that descends through the northern lights. Like so many works of fiction, though, The Lumenkin developed its own opinion about what was happening and I had Read more
Do you enjoy stories that slip between genres? By that, I mean stories where myths are rewritten, landscapes remember who strolled through them, strange beings watch from the edges, and the world is never quite as ordinary as it first appears? I’ve created a free PDF called “Weird Worlds” to Read more
It is said that all art is a self-portrait, an expression that resonates strongly as I reflect on the month of June 2026. Across the last four weeks, I have released four articles, each offering reflections on one of the short stories in my ‘Visions to Words’ collection. I began Read more
Some myths are so old, they are retold, translated, illustrated, taught, borrowed, softened, sharpened, and moralised until the original story begins to feel like a natural law. Persephone was abducted. Demeter grieved. Hades took. Zeus compromised. The seasons were born. It is one of the oldest and most enduring patterns Read more
Some stories arrive in our lives already decided. They come to us with their heroes polished, their monsters named, and their moral lessons neatly arranged. We were told to believe that Perseus was brave, his sword was righteous, Medusa was monstrous, and her severed head was proof of his victory. Read more
Last week, I wrote about The Watchers, a story of alien invasion through alteration of a civilization’s memory to make its people believe that they, the Watchers, have lived among them all along. It is a concept that provokes questions about the reliability of memory and the possibility that it Read more