Michelle Paver's Blog, page 34

Signed Copies

Veronica writes…

Hi Michelle,
I'm a fan of your horror stories. I've just finished Thin Air and Dark Matter, and I'm thoroughly in love (if not a little heart broken). I've been watching the signed copies of Dark Matter on ebay longingly for a while now. Sadly being based in Australia, it means the postage is terrifying. I just wanted to reach out and ask if you sell signed copies of your work?
I guess I'm also asking if you have any plans of touring Australia in the future? I'd love to get a signed copy from you in person, if ever given the chance.

Cheers,
Veronica

Michelle Replies…

Dear Veronica,

It’s great to know that you’ve enjoyed my Gothic stories so much!  However I’m afraid that I don’t sell signed copies, and I’ve no plans for visiting Australia for the foreseeable future.  In fact I haven’t travelled at all since before the pandemic; partly because I’m trying to limit my carbon emissions by reducing flying, and partly because I’m looking after my 92-year-old mother.   Perhaps it might help a bit to mention my third Gothic novel, WAKENHYRST?  You may already have read it, but if you haven’t, you might enjoy it too.

Thanks so much getting in touch – and sorry to disappoint!

With best wishes,  Michelle

How you personify lonliness

Liam writes…

I am a person centered therapist and I love how you somehow manage to tune into human suffering so completely. All of your books seem to touch on isolation and despair so well. I just wondered how do you encapsulate fear and dread so well in your books. I've never read a book where the fear and paranoia stays with me once i close the book. There is no peace, I just always want to know what happens.

And i usually avoid human suffering but with your books i cant turn away.

How do you do it?

Thanks,
You dont have to reply, I just wanted to let you know how much I admire your writing prowess

Michelle Replies…

Dear Liam,

You kindly said that I didn’t need to reply, but I do want to thank you for your message, which I really appreciate.  It’s a strange thing to spend one’s time evoking human suffering and yet at the same time trying to keep the reader turning the pages – but it’s very satisfying if one can achieve it.  Perhaps that’s because it’s a form both of expression and communication.  As to the “how do I do it?”, well, for me it’s a mixture of the objective – ie research, planning, plotting, pacing, etc – and the intensely subjective.  By that I mean identifying strongly with the protagonist, so that I have them at the back of my mind always, including when I’m not writing.  Plus lots and lots of re-writing.  My Gothic stories seem to need more re-writing than my other books, and I think that’s because they are the most psychologically complex, and it takes time for stuff to come up from the unconscious.

Again, thanks so much for getting in touch.  As I do battle with the re-write for my rainforest Gothic story, your comments are very encouraging!

Best wishes, Michelle

Where Can I Buy Michelle’s Books?

If you want to ask a question about where you can buy Michelle’s books, it’s quicker for you to simply ask her publishers as below:

WOLF BROTHER Books One To Six, THIN AIR & DARK MATTER
Orion Books
Email enquiries@hachette.co.uk

VIPER’S DAUGHTER, SKIN TAKER & WOLF BANE and WAKENHYRST
Head of Zeus
Floor East, 5-8 Hardwick Street, London, EC1R 4RG
Phone +44 207 253 5557

The GODS & WARRIOR Series
Puffin Books
Email customersupport@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk

 

Michelle on YouTube

Michelle’s YouTube channel features dozens of videos going back several years, mostly but not exclusively about her Wolf Brother series… but also venturing into her ghost stories and more. You can browse them here or subscribe to her YouTube channel.

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Wolfbane

It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice. Fleeing from a demon intent on devouring his souls, Wolf is swept out to Sea far from the Forest and his pack. The ocean too teems with danger: sea wolves, sharks and hunters of the deep, and the demon is gaining ground. Torak and Renn must race to save their pack-brother, battling the harsh, icy waves and merciless torrents. If they can’t find Wolf in time, the bond between them will be severed for ever…

Run wild with Wolf Brother for the last time in a Stone Age world we all want to be part of, with three-million-copy-selling author Michelle Paver, Creator of Legends.

Wakenhyrst

In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father.

When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened.

Maud’s battle has begun.

She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen – and the even more nightmarish demons of her father’s past.

Spanning five centuries, Wakenhyrst is a darkly Gothic thriller about murderous obsession and one girl’s longing to fly free.

Dark Matter

January 1937.

Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life.

So when he’s offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun.   At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year.

Gruhuken.

But the Arctic summer is brief.  As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease.   One by one, his companions are forced to leave.  He faces a stark choice.  Stay or go.  Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness.  Soon he will reach the point of no return – when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible.  And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone.  Something walks there in the dark.

Thin Air

Kangchenjunga.

Third-highest peak on earth.

Greatest killer of them all.

Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred summit.

But courage can only take them so far.

And the mountain is not their only foe.

Good Housekeeping

“A gripping ghost story… This is a brilliantly atmospheric read (be warned: it’s also terrifying!) with a brave, forward-thinking heroine I loved.”

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The Scotsman

“Michelle Paver surely has another hit on her hands”

The Scotsman