Cortin Yew?Ky

I am a Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 born author.

I love international football, satire, comedy and humour. I take everyday life and twist it into parody — but I also believe writing carries a responsibility to the reader. Loyalty, dedication and hard work matter to me. So does the quiet pleasure of research and finding new corners of life to write about.

The Beautiful Dive is my first published novel, written under the pseudonym Cortin Yew’Ky. It is a satirical farce born from years of watching football’s theatrical excesses — the diving, the rolling, the pitch-side drama and the ever more absurd surrounding circus. I pushed those absurdities to their comic extreme while remaining affectionate towards the sport.

The novel also looks at how VAR and spider cameras have shifted from tools of assistance into instruments of surveillance and control, steadily replacing the referee’s human judgement with instantaneous technological authority. The hints of football’s future already sit in the small things we accept without question. Change does not always rise from below — sometimes it pours in from the highest levels, right under the gaze of the world.

The Beautiful Dive was written over an extended period using self-taught craft, careful observation, and the discipline of long-term family life. It was already well advanced when the 2026 World Cup offered fresh insight into the cold, calculated tactics sometimes used in the pursuit of victory. Those observations sharpened the satire.

I have also written other works, including the novellas The Clockwork Carnival, The Bridge to Eternal Twilight and Hodgepodge, and the full-length gothic horror The Settling. All remain unpublished — for now. Keep an eye out.