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No time to write? Get a dog!

So during August and September I wrote a novel. Yeah I know, it came as a shock to me too. This haunted house tale (with a difference!) currently clocks in at 71,000 words, which is more than I’ve produced on a single project since I was in university and I wrote a Doctor Who book called Two’s Company. Yes it was dreadful but it was 75K and it actually made some sort of sense. I was quite proud of that.

Since then of course, life has gone out of its way to ensure I don’t have the kind of time...

World’s Collider FREE this weekend!

This weekend only, Nightscape Press is offering its three debut titles for FREE on Amazon Kindle. That means you can download World’s Collider for nothing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (September 14th to 16th).

You can also download Peter Dudar’s debut novel, A Requiem For Dead Flies, and Colliderist Trent Zelazny’s novella, Butterfly Potion, all for zero dollars (or zero pounds if you’re in the UK).

Pretty cool huh?

More good news for World’s Collider. We received this brilliant review from Li...

Book Reviews for Sale!

Announcing my new venture: Paid Book Reviews!

In the interests of raising a little cash, I’ve decided to offer my services to write book reviews for reasonable fees. Need more 5-stars on your Amazon page?

I can help!

Simply browse through our unique collection of fully customizable book reviews and choose the one that best suits your product. Our reviews feature an overload of superlatives, typos and egregious grammatical errors for that authentic feel.

Fees include the exclusive use of your chos...

News, reviews and birthday blues…

Lots to catch up on. Firstly, a bittersweet day this past Wednesday. This site turned one year old and I tried to think of a fitting way to celebrate. Unfortunately, the day job intervened and I didn’t have time, which is more or less the story of my life for the past eight months. Ho hum.

So happy birthday, website and I’m sorry the best I could come up with was a balloon image. You’ve done pretty well over the last year, and I hope you last for many more.

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An incredible week!

So World’s Collider was published on July 10th and sold pretty well out of the gate, but then something happened on Thursday morning (July 19th) that changed everything.

This e-mail was sent to everyone in the UK who had previously bought one of Aaron Rosenberg’s books from Amazon.

So basically, Amazon UK saw that World’s Collider featured Aaron, assumed this was his latest book (which it only sort of is) and publicized it to all his previous customers. Now Aaron has sold quite a lot of books o...

Steven Savile Interview and news roundup

First up, we have a brand new World’s Collider interview on the site today! Steven Savile, one of the biggest names in the anthology, talks to Elise Hattersley. Well worth checking out.

So World’s Collider was published a few days ago and it’s been a mixed week overall. Sales have been pretty good out of the gate and we’re getting lots of positive buzz. The launch was marred somewhat by the attack on the book’s Amazon page by some lowlife who we know has not even read the book, but this was co...