The Reddening has been shortlisted for Best Novel 2019 at This is Horror, which is very flattering. I was delighted to see The Reddening reviewed for the first time at The Toronto Star in the Scare Yourself Silly feature. Paul…
The Reddening is going into its first Kindle Countdown Deal at Amazon UK and Amazon US. Afraid I’m not allowed to extend the promotion wider (due to a technicality I overlooked 30 days before). But, The Reddening eBook edition will…
I can’t decide with any certainty, right now, what is appropriate to post in my various channels. But after a few days of feeling by turns winded, angry, anxious, worryingly “clinical” in my thinking, continually overwhelmed by information (and sometimes…
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…
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…
Hark Hear the Red Folk Sing! On Publication day, the Red has left the cave. I started researching and writing notes for this novel in Romania on The Ritual shoot in 2016. The actual start I began on a plane…
Visitors to these pages may have twigged that my new novel, ‘The Reddening’, is unleashed tomorrow. If you’re undecided and would like to read a sample from the book, or get started before your copy arrives, I have created a…
“The creature’s torso suggested a heavily-breasted woman with wide hips. Part of one arm had been fashioned, the other side was damaged. But if that was a head then it was the head of an animal. A dog, he thought:…