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January 18, 2019
Looking ahead.
In which I have a cunning plan.
January 10, 2019
THE AULD MITHER
A reissue of an old favorite. The Auld Mither grew initially from a short story I co-wrote with Graeme Hurry, The Blue Hag, but it always felt worthy of a longer look, and here it is in a new edition from Unnerving Press.
It was started way back in the late '90s, when I lived in Aberdeenshire up in the North East of Scotland, and is set there, in a remote deer farm, where old traditions die hard, and The Auld Mither, a crone-like hag with razor sharp bones for fingers, is killing off the proponents of a new abattoir.
This one always felt to me like a Hammer Horror, with too red blood and too raucous screams. At least that's the way it ran in my head. Hopefully it'll run like that for you too.
At one time I had hopes of selling this as a movie, it was optioned, and I wrote a screenplay but that hope was quashed when the production company folded. But maybe someday I'll get to see it, with plucky Scots policemen, lonely manor houses, old crones at the crossroads and a pint of heavy in an old rural Highand bar.
It's a dream I have.
THE AULD MITHER, a reissue of my Scottish supernatural novella, is up for pre-order on Amazon. Coming 15th Feb.
https://www.williammeikle.com/aboutth...
It was started way back in the late '90s, when I lived in Aberdeenshire up in the North East of Scotland, and is set there, in a remote deer farm, where old traditions die hard, and The Auld Mither, a crone-like hag with razor sharp bones for fingers, is killing off the proponents of a new abattoir.
This one always felt to me like a Hammer Horror, with too red blood and too raucous screams. At least that's the way it ran in my head. Hopefully it'll run like that for you too.
At one time I had hopes of selling this as a movie, it was optioned, and I wrote a screenplay but that hope was quashed when the production company folded. But maybe someday I'll get to see it, with plucky Scots policemen, lonely manor houses, old crones at the crossroads and a pint of heavy in an old rural Highand bar.
It's a dream I have.
THE AULD MITHER, a reissue of my Scottish supernatural novella, is up for pre-order on Amazon. Coming 15th Feb.
https://www.williammeikle.com/aboutth...
January 6, 2019
OPERATION: SYRIA cover reveal
OPERATION: SYRIA cover reveal
December 31, 2018
Hogmanay Newsletter
Details of a free ebook on Amazon, and general news in this Hogmanay newsletter.
December 28, 2018
End of year musing.
Some end of year musings on my writing and the way forward for me.
December 12, 2018
My 2018 writing round up
A run down of what I've had published in 2018, and what's in the pipeline
December 9, 2018
My writing process
A wee look behind the curtain at the mechanics of what I do and why I do it.
November 30, 2018
December Newsletter
Details of my latest release, a Christmas giveaway, and general writing news in the newsletter this month.
November 22, 2018
CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY
WIN SIX WILLIAM MEIKLE EBOOKS THIS CHRISTMAS
November 14, 2018
Newsflash: Operation Loch Ness Launches
Something is feeding, ravenously, on animals, wildlife, and now people in the Scottish Highlands, and the trail leads to only one place, a place of legends, and the dark waters of Loch Ness.
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