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January 24, 2016
‘@’ serialized on Wattpad
If you haven’t already got your copy of the techno-thriller ‘@‘, here’s a chance to read it for free, albeit serialized over 12 weeks.
Synopsis:21 year old Cassie’s life sucks, so on a whim, she starts farming her decisions out to Twitter.
Before she knows it, the lives of her family and friends hang in the balance, and she’s racing against the clock to discover who’s pulling her strings…
Spin down to the bottom of the page for the Wattpad embed. I’ll be posting a new chapter up every Mond...
January 21, 2016
Dead City book trailer
Ahead of the release next week, why not check out the Dead City book trailer…
This trailer is a little different to the ones for the other books, insofar as it was a presentation created when I adapted the TV show concept of Dead City into a movie.
It was intended to be the opening three minutes of a much lower budget version of the concept, so it doesn’t completely match the events, characters and locations in the re-re-adaptation into book form. However, the tone is pretty much the same, an...
January 18, 2016
“Dead City” Pinterest board
Another month, another Pinterest board full of inspiration.
Follow Lee’s board “Dead City” comedic horror novel on Pinterest.
Obviously I still don’t know what Pinterest is for, nor if I’m doing it right, but I’m quite enjoying have a place to put imagery that’s been in my mind whilst I wrote the book.
This month it’s mostly images, rather than links, because my (very brief) attempts at Googling for ‘horror noir’ or ‘zombie noir comedy’, so perhaps I’m the first to squish a bunch of these g...
January 14, 2016
“Dead City” sample chapter
Welcome to the sample chapter from the second BAM, “Dead City”.
You can read it below or download in a variety of ebook formats.
Our sample begins after Jon, the living liaison of London’s Dead City, has saved a young girl who climbed over the wall, and sent her back home.
Grab your copy of the sample chapter after the jump:
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AZW3 / Kindle – ePub – Mobi – PDF – audiobook MP3
For those of you who don’t want to download files, below is a cut-and-paste of the sample. Don’t forget you can...
January 11, 2016
“Dead City” Soundtrack
As you’ll hopefully know by now, BAMs are book-movies and thusly have a soundtrack that sets the tone for the narrative. Dead City is no different.
This month we’ve got an eclectic selection from a noir-ish theme tune from André Charlier to the latest single from my dear friends Venus Demilo. There’s yet another Stealing Sheep track, because they’re wonderful and practice their sets around me whilst I write, so it’s hard *not* to put them in a playlist. Felix Hagan has a jam in there, he’s al...
January 8, 2016
Venture into ‘Dead City’
Sure January’s book “@” only came out last week, but this ridiculous project doesn’t allow for time-wasting, so let’s delve straight into February’s BAM, Dead City.
The book tells the darkly comic story of Jon, the only living man occupying a walled city of the dead in South London. It’s his job to police the streets, make sure the unliving obey the rules, and his life is much more mundane than that sounds.
His method of dealing with boredom has been to narrate his every move as if he were...
January 4, 2016
Dead City book cover & synopsis
“Dead City” is coming out on February 1st, so I should probably fill you in on what to expect next month.
Synopsis:Jon Gilligan is the only man with a pulse in a city of the undead.
It’s his job to maintain order between the factions of walking corpses and disembodied spirits.
The workload has been driving him a little insane, leading him to take on the persona of a noir detective. He narrates his adventures, casting himself as a hero to all those under his watch.
When the local Necromancer...
January 3, 2016
Book Launch! ‘@’, the very first BAM is out!
Entitled simply ‘@’, the first Book A Month is finally out in the wild!
eBook Paperback Audiobook Audible iTunes
SynopsisAt twenty-one, Cassie is in a dead end job and has just been dumped, whilst her friends are succeeding at school, careers, and life in general.
On a whim, she hands the reigns of her decisions over to Twitter, and at first her followers seem to be making her life better.
However, as the orders continue, and become increasingly strange, she finds herself held at ransom, for...
December 24, 2015
Like free books? ‘@’ pre-release copies available now!
To celebrate the festive season, I’m giving away the first BAM, ‘@’. So why not grab yourself one of these free books / audiobooks?
Sure, it comes out to purchase in ten days or so, and pre-orders have been live for a couple of weeks, but I’m barely invested in this whole ‘selling’ thing, and am much more interested in just getting people to read my words, so free books all around!
Ebook copies for Kindle / tablets / etc can be grabbed over at Story Cartel.
The audiobook version is available...
December 20, 2015
One writer, two authors
I’m mostly known for writing comedy. Scratch that. I’m barely known, but when I am, it’s likely for comedy. So how does a silly clown writer go serious?
When I started putting the plan together for releasing A Book A Month, I knew I wanted to try and stray from my comfort zone of being funny. Literally 85% of the writing I’ve ever been paid for has been (or at least intended to be) comedy. Sure, I’ve pitched serious things, but they’ve never been picked up because of the stigma associated w...
