The irony for me of how I agonised over my book Lost Girl is the chronology. I’ve been thinking about that book a lot recently. I effectively researched the story from around 2006 to 2013, and started writing it in…
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This is the time of year when I like to offer a few recommendations to folks with similar tastes; films, Tv and books from my reading and viewing in the previous year. My favourite TV of 2019: Too Old to…
Professionally, 2019 has been the most intense year I’ve had since 2016. That was the year I created Ritual Limited and published Some Will Not Sleep, created a new website, started a newsletter and produced the free eBooks, Cries from…
The second list is over at The Quietus and The Reddening was selected by Sean Kitching, who has taken a close interest in my terrors over the years. Really delighted to have the book appear here too. The Red Abides….
I’m really pleased to see The Reddening make a couple of terrific Books of the Year 2019 lists. For a start they’re not exclusively genre lists, so that might be a first for one of my books, and this is…
Publishing, Witchfinder Apprentice, using landscape in stories, future projects … I’m interviewed over at The Quietus by Sean Kitching. The fourth time no less that we’ve put our heads together to chew the fat about horror. This one is infused…
I’m manifesting here tomorrow, as part of Cockington Court’s Day of the Dead Festival. I may even be the most hideous apparition present. As the storm rages outside (like a hurricane in the Bay right now) I will be reading…
We raise our horns and the red circle dances to offer thanks to these reviewers. I genuinely never really know how a book will be received until it is finished and published and out there. The Reddening took me two…
I was also lucky enough to be invited for interview at Haute Macabre recently, by Sonya Vatomsky. We covered researching, folk-horror tropes, memetic ideas, mythos’s . . . and stuffed librarians. Read on …
And then you read this on publication day, from your favourite writer of horror … and your imposter syndrome is so huge that you want to slither into the shed and hide with a 4-pack for company. A moment of…