Publishing

  • Ho ho ho! My publisher darkstroke has come over all festive and set up an advent calendar this month. Each day, if you visit their website and click on Santa, you will find a free novel to download and enjoy! How good is that? The fun kicks off today with their short dark story collection,…

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  • This Monday, I’m excited to share news of a two-volume anthology of dark short stories set in London that will be released in ebook and paperback at the end of the month. I have a story in Volume One called Evie and the Sea Monster. Its historical (no surprise there) but not based on real…

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  • I’ve very excited today to share a brand new shiny cover for The Road to Newgate. I so love these characters and their story, so it’s great to see the book get this awesome new look. As with The Girl Puzzle, each ‘slice’ has been chosen with care. Here’s the low-down on each one, and…

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  • Read for Free!

    Just a quick post to share the exciting news that The Road to Newgate is free on Kindle for the next few days. Why free? Because the success of writing a novel and finding a publisher prepared to back it and send it out into the world properly edited and with a strong cover –…

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  • For the first time since it came out in September 2016, Charlatan is on sale as an ebook for only $0.99 or 99p or equivalent across all platforms and countries! You can grab it now by clicking here: mybook.to/charlatan   “A dark, tale of mystery, sorcery, and a woman’s desperate pursuit to charm the most…

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  • Congratulations to author Joan Sumner on her debut historical novel The Thieftaker’s Trek!, published today by Bastei Entertainment. I first met Joan at a Historical Novel Society conference and can’t wait to read her book. It arrived on my kindle this morning! Here is the story: Revenge   Abduction   Blackmail   Murder It’s 1810. The industrial revolution…

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  • 2 weeks to go…

    With 2 weeks to go until the official publication date for The Road to Newgate, I thought I’d do a little update post on the kind of things keeping me busy/awake at night. To party or not to party? One of my main preoccupations in the last month or so has been trying to decide…

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  • Tomorrow is publication day for third Kindred Spirit book by my fellow Crooked Cat author Jennifer C. Wilson. As a historical fiction writer and fan, I’m really looking forward to reading this. Jennifer has been plucking some of my favourite characters from British history and giving them a unique and imaginative twist. Why didn’t I…

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  • Introducing Alex Macbeth and The Red Die

    The body of a man with a red die in his pocket is washed ashore near a quiet village on the coast of the Indian Ocean in southern Africa. But what looked initially like a corpse that came in with the tide soon turns out to be a murder case that will lead Comandante Felisberto…

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  • Cover reveal!

    I’m so delighted to start sharing the cover for my new book, The Road to Newgate, which is being published by Crooked Cat books on July 16th! The cover is particularly relevant to the book as the background image is part of Ogilby and Morgan’s Large Scale Map of the City as rebuilt by 1676.…

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