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Clutter Your Kindle With American Hoarder

I have a free book for you: a brand new short story called American Hoarder.

It comes hot on the heels of December's equally free novelette Auto Rewind.

Why all the free books, you may well ask? It's to celebrate the release of my new book for Orbit, The Last Days Of Jack Sparks , which chronicles the downfall of the titular writer and social media celebrity.

American Hoarder finally reveals what really happened during the making of episode 223 of the hit US Reality TV show American Hoarder. Even...

Free Book! Also: Jack Sparks Is Coming

Today, I have a free book for you: a brand new short story called American Hoarder. (Which is right here, if you don't want to read the rest of my yammering and just want the free book.)

It comes hot on the heels of December's equally free novelette Auto Rewind.

Why all the free books, you may well ask? It's to celebrate the release of my new book for Orbit, The Last Days Of Jack Sparks , which chronicles the downfall of the titular writer and social media celebrity.

It's now less than a month be...

Free Book # 2: American Hoarder

Would you look at this cover?

I am loving this cover.

American Hoarderis the second in the series of new free books I'm releasing to celebrate the release of my Orbit novel The Last Days Of Jack Sparks . It's a short story about the one episode of the US TV reality show American Hoarder that no-one will ever see.

It'll be available to download for free, in all formats, from February 7. And if you back me at Patreonfor as little as $1 per story, you'll receive American Hoarder one week early on Ja...

Arnopp Update: Where Are We Now?

With thanks to the late, great David Bowie for that subtitle, it's time to take stock of what's going on in Arnoppville in the year of our dark lord, 2016...

JACK SPARKS IS COMING!
March 3 sees the release of my first title for Orbit Books. The Last Days Of Jack Sparks finally reveals the lurid details behind the downfall and death of the notorious pop culture celebrity Jack Sparks. Why did he decide to write a whole book debunking the supernatural? Did his problems really begin after he mocked...

The Seven Novels I Loved Most In 2015

Self-explanatory title there, I’m saying. And you’re too bloated with post-Christmas cheese and chocolate to wade through a long intro, so let’s get to it. In no particular order…SLADE HOUSE by David Mitchell
Remarkably, this is the first David Mitchell book I’ve read, but it certainly won’t be the last. A surprisingly scary and disturbing piece of work, this short novel apparently inhabits the same world as The Bone Clocks, but you don’t need to have read that one in order to appreciate the m...

101 Writing Fears: DYSLEXIA

In January, I'll finally release a non-fiction book I've been working on for three years. Titled101 Writing Fears And How To Deal With Them,it aims to erase unhelpful fear from your writing life.

Around 2012, I asked Twitter folk for their biggest writing-related fears. Even given that writers are famously prone to a dose of the terrors, I was still taken back by how many fears people shared with me, publicly or otherwise. As you might have gathered, there were about 101 of them, and I set out...

Merry Christmas: Have A Free Book!

Ho ho ho! My new novelette Auto Rewind is now available to one and all, and it won't cost you a penny, a cent or whatever your tiniest unit of currency happens to be.

Yes, to celebrate the March 2016 release of my Orbit Books novel The Last Days Of Jack Sparks , I'm giving away short stories, every couple of months. Auto Rewind is the first. Set at Christmas, it's a dark thriller awash with 80s iconography, psychological horrorand nail guns.

Stephen Skipp loves his mother, who he thinks is “real...

Auto Rewind: Ready To Go

My new free short story Auto Rewind has turned out to be a novelette, clocking in at 12,000 words. It's hopefully a surprising and emotionally-charged thriller which involves Christmas, VHS, Doctor Who and a nail-gun.

Tomorrow, it will go out to my early-adopter supporters at Patreon, the site which lets people back creators with a recurring pledge. Supporters there get Kindle, epub and PDF files direct from me, along with various perks, such as getting to see earlier red-pen-edit pages of the...

Doctor Who Dreams Come Through

Once, when I was very young, I asked my mother a question which understandably bamboozled her.

"Mum... did we ever go hunting for The Master?"

I dearly wish I could remember her exact reaction. As it is, I can vaguely recall her kindly humouring me by taking a brief moment to think it over.

"No," she said. "No, I don't think we did".

Turned out I'd had a dream, you see, in which my family crept around our own house, searching for The Master, cowled nemesis of TV's Doctor Who. The Master had recen...

Writers Should Never Be Ashamed To Ask

[image error] Amanda Palmer’s great 2014 book The Art Of Asking is an autobiography of sorts, using its central theme as a lens through which to view scenes from her remarkable life.

As the title suggests, it’s about asking for help (not just financially), giving help, mutual trust and the varied splendour of human relationships. When I read it a month ago, devouring it in a couple of days (downright speedy for me), it gave me the final shove of encouragement I needed to set up that Patreon page I'd been th...