Better late than never, right? The endless cheese fog has lifted and I'm gearing up to returning to work tomorrow - the same day my eldest leaves us to return to university. Normal life will resume, which is depressing enough, and I'm doing dry-ish January. What the hell is 'dry-ish' January? Well, I have set... Continue Reading →
Fantasycon 2024
I love Fantasycon. It's an amazing experience, full of friendly faces and like minded people where I go to recharge my writer battery. I haven't written much in the last year. Firstly, work has been kicking my arse and secondly, I've been editing The Original's Rage (out 15th November! Preorders available here). After a weekend... Continue Reading →
Pre-order The Original’s Rage Today!
Yesterday I did it - I pulled the plug and set a release date for The Original's Rage. Book 3 of the Original's series is ready to go! Drum roll please... 15th November 2024 Pre-order: https://mybook.to/originalsrage Setting a release date is something that never gets old - simultaneously exciting and utterly terrifying. What if this... Continue Reading →
I’m back…
I'm gearing up to releasing The Original's Rage soon, so thought it was about time I dusted off this website! Where have I been? Work has basically kicked my arse for the last year or so, and my writing took a massive hit. I was exhausted, burnt out and had no spare capacity, so I... Continue Reading →
St Neith is out!
Something has arrived in the woods and it's hungry... So very, very hungry..... Hello strangers, it's me, the writer of a blog you rarely hear from! Demain Publishing released my story St Neith on 7th July and it's available now from Amazon. Reviews so far have been overwhelmingly positive, and here's a snapshot of them:... Continue Reading →
The Exeter Incident – out now!
At some point, I'll share my entirely crap concept drawing of this. Don Noble deserves a medal for this cool cover! A book I came up with the concept of when I was in my twenties, The Exeter Incident is the book I have worked hardest on. I'm now 51, so this storyline has been... Continue Reading →
The Opening by Tim McWhorter
Nick Fallon knows failure all too well. His string of collapsed business ventures make for a resume from hell. This next one, however, will be different. The Chamberlain Theater (sic) itself is different. Nick has bought himself a theatre and renovated it into a state of the art 4-D experience, but there’s something wrong with... Continue Reading →
Zhiguai:Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix
Translated by Yi Izzy Yu & John Yu Branscum ‘Zhiguai’ roughly translates as ‘true weird tales’ and that is exactly what you get in this book. Fifteen tales of real encounters with the unexplained – the titular ‘glitches in the matrix’. The stories contained here vary massively from spooky precognition dreams, strange visions and trips... Continue Reading →
Tuxedo Junction by Thom Carnell
The third short story collection from Fangoria/Dread Central veteran writer Thom Carnell. I have put off writing this review for a while now as I’m finding difficult to put my thoughts on this collection into words. I didn’t especially like the book, but I am sure there is a massive market out there – it... Continue Reading →
Your Turn To Suffer by Tim Waggoner
Lori is determined to confront the Cabal and get her life back…. Having not read much by Tim Waggoner before this, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. From the blurb, Lori Palumbo has to ‘confess and atone – or suffer’, so I was envisaging some kind of cult type thing, especially with the Cabal... Continue Reading →
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