Martin Marriott's Blog, page 3
December 11, 2016
The Bad Liars' Club
For only £0.99 download this touching and humourous story of one man's struggle to realise he's the one that's mad.
Alfie knows too much. He has Secret Knowledge that his nemesis Big Phil and his army of Mind-Repressors are determined to extract from him. But Alfie’s desperate to escape from The Factory and make a break for freedom with his long-time friend Gustov. After all, Gustov has assured his friend that on his sixty-third attempt he will be successful. Why sixty-third? Alfie’s not sure and neither is Gustov.
Then out of the blue Gustov decides to go for a wander without telling Alfie where. With his friend gone, Alfie comes across a new inmate called Gentle-Person. To intrigue Alfie’s attention further, a former inmate of The Factory called Alma has returned of her own free will.
Step inside Alfie’s world, where everything is not as it seems.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00Z...
The Bad Liars' Club
Alfie knows too much. He has Secret Knowledge that his nemesis Big Phil and his army of Mind-Repressors are determined to extract from him. But Alfie’s desperate to escape from The Factory and make a break for freedom with his long-time friend Gustov. After all, Gustov has assured his friend that on his sixty-third attempt he will be successful. Why sixty-third? Alfie’s not sure and neither is Gustov.
Then out of the blue Gustov decides to go for a wander without telling Alfie where. With his friend gone, Alfie comes across a new inmate called Gentle-Person. To intrigue Alfie’s attention further, a former inmate of The Factory called Alma has returned of her own free will.
Step inside Alfie’s world, where everything is not as it seems.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00Z...
The Bad Liars' Club
Killing the Dead
Download this fast paced zombie story for only £0.99!
Ralph Farson is a fourteen-year-old boy trying to survive in a world full of crazy flesh-eating zombies. After killing his parents he leaves his home town of Bergen Grange and goes in search of a safe haven where he hopes to find fellow survivors. He is heading north to Idaho’s state capital of Boise when a change happens to his plans.
He meets a man called Derek Lovett.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00D...Killing The Dead
Ralph Farson is a fourteen-year-old boy trying to survive in a world full of crazy flesh-eating zombies. After killing his parents he leaves his home town of Bergen Grange and goes in search of a safe haven where he hopes to find fellow survivors. He is heading north to Idaho’s state capital of Boise when a change happens to his plans.
He meets a man called Derek Lovett.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00D...Killing The Dead
December 10, 2016
The Man Who Found God
For only £0.99 download this humourous short story of one man's lack of faith.
The Man Who Found God
Tim Collingwood hasn't got many friends, no girlfriend and not much motivation in life. His mother is sick of him moping around. It's been two years since his father died and Tim still hasn't come to term with the loss.
Tim's mother decides it’s time that he had a holiday. Tim's flatmate (and the love of his life) tells him the same thing. Tim has loved Samantha Greening since he first set eyes on her. The downside? Samantha only wants a platonic relationship.
Samantha picks out the ideal holiday for Tim. A walking holiday in The Lake District. Tim wanted sun and sand, not dull and dreary rain. But Tim relents and does as he is told.
On the final day of his holiday he meets a tramp called Gerry O' Donnell who will change his life forever.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00C...
The Man Who Found God
Tim Collingwood hasn't got many friends, no girlfriend and not much motivation in life. His mother is sick of him moping around. It's been two years since his father died and Tim still hasn't come to term with the loss.
Tim's mother decides it’s time that he had a holiday. Tim's flatmate (and the love of his life) tells him the same thing. Tim has loved Samantha Greening since he first set eyes on her. The downside? Samantha only wants a platonic relationship.
Samantha picks out the ideal holiday for Tim. A walking holiday in The Lake District. Tim wanted sun and sand, not dull and dreary rain. But Tim relents and does as he is told.
On the final day of his holiday he meets a tramp called Gerry O' Donnell who will change his life forever.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00C...
The Queen of New York City
Download now for only £1.99!!
The Queen of New York City
Daniel Valentine, one of England's most talented and famous playwrights, has been commissioned to finish the script for an unfinished play by the late American playwright Sylvia Ashbourne. When weeks into the project, he attends a party at the Waldorf Astoria organised by his sponsor and Patron of the Arts Sir Charles Farrington. At the party Valentine meets the mysterious and dangerous Isabella Reed. Soon captivated by her, he ignores pleas from Farrington and his writing partner Larry Soames that Reed is bad news. Very bad news.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01E...
The Queen of New York City
Daniel Valentine, one of England's most talented and famous playwrights, has been commissioned to finish the script for an unfinished play by the late American playwright Sylvia Ashbourne. When weeks into the project, he attends a party at the Waldorf Astoria organised by his sponsor and Patron of the Arts Sir Charles Farrington. At the party Valentine meets the mysterious and dangerous Isabella Reed. Soon captivated by her, he ignores pleas from Farrington and his writing partner Larry Soames that Reed is bad news. Very bad news.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01E...
December 9, 2016
The Haunting of Cringlemire Hall
For £1.99 download this creepy ghost story set in the Victorian era!
The Haunting of Cringlemire Hall
George Smeaton, a City of London lawyer, is surprised and a little bewildered when his unpleasant Uncle Samuel Smeaton leaves him Cringlemire Hall in his will. George uproots his family and moves to the other side of London to take up residency in the Gothic mansion. But only after a few weeks things start to turn sour. The servants are keeping secrets. Isaac, his youngest child, becomes unwell with a peculiar illness. Then George himself vanishes en route to a business trip in Edinburgh.
How will Inspector Cornelius Threadbold get to the bottom of mysterious goings on at Cringlemire Hall?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01M...
The Haunting of Cringlemire Hall
George Smeaton, a City of London lawyer, is surprised and a little bewildered when his unpleasant Uncle Samuel Smeaton leaves him Cringlemire Hall in his will. George uproots his family and moves to the other side of London to take up residency in the Gothic mansion. But only after a few weeks things start to turn sour. The servants are keeping secrets. Isaac, his youngest child, becomes unwell with a peculiar illness. Then George himself vanishes en route to a business trip in Edinburgh.
How will Inspector Cornelius Threadbold get to the bottom of mysterious goings on at Cringlemire Hall?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01M...
The Good Girl
For only £0.99 download this Detective short story based in the Lake District!
The Good Girl
Detective Inspector Jonathan Cain is set for the island of Menorca to visit his brother and family when he receives a phone call from his partner, DS Lucy Able. A body has been found in Serpentine Woods and it has all the marks of the media-dubbed serial murderer, Kimberley Killer.
From 2009 to 2010 Kimberley Killer terrorised the Cumbrian town of Kendal, butchering ten men and three women. Kimberley Killer was never caught.
But after a two-year absence Cain has promised himself that this time he will catch her once and for all.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00B...
The Good Girl
Detective Inspector Jonathan Cain is set for the island of Menorca to visit his brother and family when he receives a phone call from his partner, DS Lucy Able. A body has been found in Serpentine Woods and it has all the marks of the media-dubbed serial murderer, Kimberley Killer.
From 2009 to 2010 Kimberley Killer terrorised the Cumbrian town of Kendal, butchering ten men and three women. Kimberley Killer was never caught.
But after a two-year absence Cain has promised himself that this time he will catch her once and for all.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00B...
November 24, 2016
Seeking Book Reviews
I have some books available for sale on Amazon, Smashwords and Kobo that I would like honest reviews of.
The first one is called The Disciples. It's a post-apocalyptic horror story that has a slight Wild West feel to it even though it's set in the Lake District in Northern England.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01CF4...
The second one is called Lake Reigny. This is a detective/horror/paranormal story again that is set in the Lake District.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HKM...
The third one is called The Haunting of Cringlemire Hall. This is a Victorian era suspense/horror/ghost story.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M28...
The fourth one is Killing the Dead. This is basically your typical zombie story but with a twist.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00D7O...
If anyone is interested in reading my books and giving me a honest then please DM.
Cheers Martin
The first one is called The Disciples. It's a post-apocalyptic horror story that has a slight Wild West feel to it even though it's set in the Lake District in Northern England.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01CF4...
The second one is called Lake Reigny. This is a detective/horror/paranormal story again that is set in the Lake District.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HKM...
The third one is called The Haunting of Cringlemire Hall. This is a Victorian era suspense/horror/ghost story.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M28...
The fourth one is Killing the Dead. This is basically your typical zombie story but with a twist.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00D7O...
If anyone is interested in reading my books and giving me a honest then please DM.
Cheers Martin
March 3, 2016
The Disciples
For the next 3 days my brand new novel The Disciples will be available to download on Kindle. It's a unique vampire story set in an post-apocalyptic world (in this case The Lake District, England)
The Disciples
On the 16th June 2026 war was declared between America and Russia. The majority of the western nations sided with America. Russian counted China, North Korea and Iran as her friends. The war lasted for 262 days until an English bio-chemist called Solomon Johnson unleashed his deadly Ephium virus on the west’s enemies.
The Ephium virus was designed to do nothing more than scare the Russians and its allies into submission with its Ebola-like symptoms. But what happened on the day the bombs were dropped changed humanity for ever.
The infected had an uncontrollable thirst for blood. Their skin colour became pale white, their eyes turned red and their hands and fingers transformed into clawed blades. Their mouths became home to rows of razor-sharp teeth. They could no longer speak in a human voice. Every time they opened their mouths, an ear-shattering wailing noise came out.
Finally humanity united as one in the new war against the creature known as the Wailer. Two nuclear attacks later and still the Wailers couldn't be defeated.
What was left of the world lay now lay in ruins.
A hundred years later, the survivors live in settlements dotted around the blistered landscape of earth.
But the awakening has happened.
An old evil awaits humanity.
A lone survivor called Willard Flynn is seeking redemption. He arrives at the The Orchard, a survival settlement at Lake Windermere, to warn the unaware settlers of what's coming.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01CF...
The Disciples
On the 16th June 2026 war was declared between America and Russia. The majority of the western nations sided with America. Russian counted China, North Korea and Iran as her friends. The war lasted for 262 days until an English bio-chemist called Solomon Johnson unleashed his deadly Ephium virus on the west’s enemies.
The Ephium virus was designed to do nothing more than scare the Russians and its allies into submission with its Ebola-like symptoms. But what happened on the day the bombs were dropped changed humanity for ever.
The infected had an uncontrollable thirst for blood. Their skin colour became pale white, their eyes turned red and their hands and fingers transformed into clawed blades. Their mouths became home to rows of razor-sharp teeth. They could no longer speak in a human voice. Every time they opened their mouths, an ear-shattering wailing noise came out.
Finally humanity united as one in the new war against the creature known as the Wailer. Two nuclear attacks later and still the Wailers couldn't be defeated.
What was left of the world lay now lay in ruins.
A hundred years later, the survivors live in settlements dotted around the blistered landscape of earth.
But the awakening has happened.
An old evil awaits humanity.
A lone survivor called Willard Flynn is seeking redemption. He arrives at the The Orchard, a survival settlement at Lake Windermere, to warn the unaware settlers of what's coming.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01CF...
February 6, 2016
The Curious Story of Hattie Brown
The Curious Story of Hattie Brown
After the tragic death of her father, fourteen-year-old Hattie Brown begins to have a recurring dream of a strange and mysterious oak tree. Built into the trunk is a red door with a golden doorknob and a lion head door knocker. The dream always ends with the door opening to reveal a blinding white light that Hattie walks into. What do the dreams mean for Hattie and her family?
After spending two years in Brixton Prison for armed robbery Terry Stapleton is finally being released early for good behaviour. But not everyone is pleased to see him out in the open. Terry has a score to settle. Somebody grassed him up to the police for his involvement in the robbery. He aims to find out who did even if it means tearing Bethnal Green apart in the process.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EYOVKG6
After the tragic death of her father, fourteen-year-old Hattie Brown begins to have a recurring dream of a strange and mysterious oak tree. Built into the trunk is a red door with a golden doorknob and a lion head door knocker. The dream always ends with the door opening to reveal a blinding white light that Hattie walks into. What do the dreams mean for Hattie and her family?
After spending two years in Brixton Prison for armed robbery Terry Stapleton is finally being released early for good behaviour. But not everyone is pleased to see him out in the open. Terry has a score to settle. Somebody grassed him up to the police for his involvement in the robbery. He aims to find out who did even if it means tearing Bethnal Green apart in the process.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EYOVKG6
January 16, 2016
Sometimes Never- A Collection of Short Stories & Novellas
Two hundred and fifty. It's not a vast number. But on the other hand it's not a small number either. You could say it's a very achievable number. In what way is it achievable? Depends on what two hundred and fifty of something you require I suppose. In my case it's pre-ordered copies of my book Sometimes Never that I'm trying to get published.
There's this crowdfunding website called Britain's Next Bestseller. They will publish and promote your book. Winner. Wonderful. Let's get the ball rolling.....Hang on. Calm down. To achieve this much awaited dream of becoming a published writer you have to get 250 pre-ordered copies of your book. This puts you at the mercy of the reader or more to the point. Potential Readers. How good is your book? Will people be willing to pay £8.99 for an author they've never heard of? It's a gamble that has paid off for some aspiring authors and not others.
I must admit this is my third attempt of trying to do such thing. Why didn't it work previously? There may be many factors that contributed to my campaigns being unsuccessful. The first campaign was at Christmas time and the second attempt was a joint effort with eight other writers for a collection of short stories we all wrote for a crime competition. I would like to blow my own trumpet and add that I was the overall winner of the competition. Anyhow, enough of the past and failed attempts. Let's concentrate on what's before us!
So, my collection of short stories and novellas is called Sometimes Never. There are two short stories, a detective story called The Good Girl and a humourous one about faith called The Man Who Found God. The novellas consist of a zombie thriller Killing the Dead, a spy adventure set in 1920's England called Betsy Breedlove and Professor Foxton's Notebook and finally The Bad Liars' Club, a black comedy set in a mental health institution.
I have 28 days to achieve my target of 250 pre-orders. Please purchase a copy for yourself, a loved one or even a friend (it would make a fantastic Christmas present. PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE this post and get as many people as you can to buy a copy. I must make it clear if you do pre-order a copy no money is taken from your account unless I reach my target. So if you don't have the momey now it doesn't matter.
Below is the blurbs for the stories in my book and obvisouly the link for Britians Next Best Seller!
The Good Girl
January 2013
Detective Inspector Jonathan Cain is set for the island of Menorca to visit his brother and family when he receives a phone call from his partner DS Lucy Able. A body has been found in Serpentine Woods and it has all the marks of the media dubbed serial murderer Kimberley Killer.
From 2009 to 2010 Kimberley Killer terrorised the Cumbrian town of Kendal, butchering ten men and three women. Kimberley Killer was never caught and it remains the only case D.I Cain hasn't solved. But after a two year absence Cain has promised himself that this time he will catch her once and for all.
The Man Who Found God
Tim Collingwood hasn't got many friends, no girlfriend and not much motivation in life. His mother is sick of him moping around.It's been two years since his father died and Tim still hasn't come to term with the loss.
Tim's mother decides its time that he had a holiday. Tim's flat mate and the love of his life tells him the same thing. Tim has loved Samantha Greening since he first set eyes on her. The downside? Samantha only wants a platonic relationship.
Samantha picks out the ideal holiday for Tim.A walking holiday in The Lake District. Tim wanted sun and sand not dull and dreary rain. But Tim relents and does as he is told.
On the final day of his holiday he meets a tramp called Gerry O' Donnell who will change his life forever.
The Bad Liars' Club
Alfie knows too much. He has Secret Knowledge that his nemesis Big Phil and his army of Mind-Repressors are determined to extract from him. But Alfie’s desperate to escape from The Factory and make a break for freedom with his long-time friend Gustov. After all Gustov has assured his friend that on his sixty-third attempt he will be successful. Why sixty-third? Alfie’s not sure and neither is Gustov.
Then out of the blue Gustov decides to go for a wander without telling Alfie where. With his friend gone Alfie comes across a new inmate called Gentle-Person.To intrigue Alfie’s attention further,a former inmate of The Factory called Alma has returned of her own free will.
Step inside Alfie’s world were everything is not as it seems.
Betsy Breedlove &Professfor Foxton's Notebook
1929
Britain's most audacious spy Betsy Breedlove has been given her next assignment. She must travel to the Le Rene Hotel in Paris and seduce the world renowned psychiatrist Professor Edgar Foxton and then confiscate his notebook.
Inside the notebook lie confessions and secrets that would break governments and lead to another Great War.
Breedlove is accompanied to Paris by her long suffering brother and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Horace Dawley. After being shot at in Prague by Breedlove's arch nemesis Count Vlodlav, Horace is adamant that this is the last assignment he's accompanying his sister on.
The race to prevent another world catastrophe is on!
Killing the Dead
Ralph Farson is a fourteen year old boy trying to survive in a world full of crazy flesh eating zombies. After killing his parents he leaves his home town of Bergen Grange and goes in search of a safe haven where he hopes to find fellow survivors. He was heading north to Idaho’s state capital of Boise when a change came to his plans.
He met a man called Derek Lovett.
https://britainsnextbestseller.co.uk/...
#book #crowdfunding #novel #literature #fiction #readers #amreading #bookworm #bookgeek #booknerd #bookgroup
There's this crowdfunding website called Britain's Next Bestseller. They will publish and promote your book. Winner. Wonderful. Let's get the ball rolling.....Hang on. Calm down. To achieve this much awaited dream of becoming a published writer you have to get 250 pre-ordered copies of your book. This puts you at the mercy of the reader or more to the point. Potential Readers. How good is your book? Will people be willing to pay £8.99 for an author they've never heard of? It's a gamble that has paid off for some aspiring authors and not others.
I must admit this is my third attempt of trying to do such thing. Why didn't it work previously? There may be many factors that contributed to my campaigns being unsuccessful. The first campaign was at Christmas time and the second attempt was a joint effort with eight other writers for a collection of short stories we all wrote for a crime competition. I would like to blow my own trumpet and add that I was the overall winner of the competition. Anyhow, enough of the past and failed attempts. Let's concentrate on what's before us!
So, my collection of short stories and novellas is called Sometimes Never. There are two short stories, a detective story called The Good Girl and a humourous one about faith called The Man Who Found God. The novellas consist of a zombie thriller Killing the Dead, a spy adventure set in 1920's England called Betsy Breedlove and Professor Foxton's Notebook and finally The Bad Liars' Club, a black comedy set in a mental health institution.
I have 28 days to achieve my target of 250 pre-orders. Please purchase a copy for yourself, a loved one or even a friend (it would make a fantastic Christmas present. PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE this post and get as many people as you can to buy a copy. I must make it clear if you do pre-order a copy no money is taken from your account unless I reach my target. So if you don't have the momey now it doesn't matter.
Below is the blurbs for the stories in my book and obvisouly the link for Britians Next Best Seller!
The Good Girl
January 2013
Detective Inspector Jonathan Cain is set for the island of Menorca to visit his brother and family when he receives a phone call from his partner DS Lucy Able. A body has been found in Serpentine Woods and it has all the marks of the media dubbed serial murderer Kimberley Killer.
From 2009 to 2010 Kimberley Killer terrorised the Cumbrian town of Kendal, butchering ten men and three women. Kimberley Killer was never caught and it remains the only case D.I Cain hasn't solved. But after a two year absence Cain has promised himself that this time he will catch her once and for all.
The Man Who Found God
Tim Collingwood hasn't got many friends, no girlfriend and not much motivation in life. His mother is sick of him moping around.It's been two years since his father died and Tim still hasn't come to term with the loss.
Tim's mother decides its time that he had a holiday. Tim's flat mate and the love of his life tells him the same thing. Tim has loved Samantha Greening since he first set eyes on her. The downside? Samantha only wants a platonic relationship.
Samantha picks out the ideal holiday for Tim.A walking holiday in The Lake District. Tim wanted sun and sand not dull and dreary rain. But Tim relents and does as he is told.
On the final day of his holiday he meets a tramp called Gerry O' Donnell who will change his life forever.
The Bad Liars' Club
Alfie knows too much. He has Secret Knowledge that his nemesis Big Phil and his army of Mind-Repressors are determined to extract from him. But Alfie’s desperate to escape from The Factory and make a break for freedom with his long-time friend Gustov. After all Gustov has assured his friend that on his sixty-third attempt he will be successful. Why sixty-third? Alfie’s not sure and neither is Gustov.
Then out of the blue Gustov decides to go for a wander without telling Alfie where. With his friend gone Alfie comes across a new inmate called Gentle-Person.To intrigue Alfie’s attention further,a former inmate of The Factory called Alma has returned of her own free will.
Step inside Alfie’s world were everything is not as it seems.
Betsy Breedlove &Professfor Foxton's Notebook
1929
Britain's most audacious spy Betsy Breedlove has been given her next assignment. She must travel to the Le Rene Hotel in Paris and seduce the world renowned psychiatrist Professor Edgar Foxton and then confiscate his notebook.
Inside the notebook lie confessions and secrets that would break governments and lead to another Great War.
Breedlove is accompanied to Paris by her long suffering brother and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Horace Dawley. After being shot at in Prague by Breedlove's arch nemesis Count Vlodlav, Horace is adamant that this is the last assignment he's accompanying his sister on.
The race to prevent another world catastrophe is on!
Killing the Dead
Ralph Farson is a fourteen year old boy trying to survive in a world full of crazy flesh eating zombies. After killing his parents he leaves his home town of Bergen Grange and goes in search of a safe haven where he hopes to find fellow survivors. He was heading north to Idaho’s state capital of Boise when a change came to his plans.
He met a man called Derek Lovett.
https://britainsnextbestseller.co.uk/...
#book #crowdfunding #novel #literature #fiction #readers #amreading #bookworm #bookgeek #booknerd #bookgroup
