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November 20, 2023
Political Thrillers on offer
November bargain books - Political thrillers from Bloodhound Books, including my little book, The Sleepers.
November 6, 2023
Review: The Day the Earth Turned: Book 1. Summer by Chantelle Atkins
The Book
The adults are all dead. Society has collapsed.
Two groups of teenagers emerge on either side of a rural village, traumatised, bereaved and determined to survive.
As tribes form and territorial lines are drawn, can they overcome their differences and find a way to rebuild?
Or will gang warfare end this emerging new world before it’s even begun?
Each of them have their theories about what killed the adults and as the dust settles on the old world, a far bigger, darker, and angrier threat is ...
October 19, 2023
The Arid Lands Launch Day Deal
Today I am announcing a very special launch Day deal.
To celebrate the launch of The Arid Lands I am making the kindle edition of Red Rock free for two days only, today and tomorrow, so why not grab yourself a copy.
Red Rock and The Arid Lands have a lot in common. They are both what might loosely be referred to as Climate Fiction although the themes involved are very different, and they may also both be referred to as SciFi thrillers with a dystopian setting.
The Arid Lands was originally writte...
October 10, 2023
Review: Ironheart by Allan Boroughs
The BookFirst comes the iron and then comes the snow. And then comes the winter when nothing will grow.
A hundred years after the catastrophic Great Rains, a shattered world cries out for salvation. Haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her father, India Bentley, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to unlock the secrets of a bygone era. Teaming up with the seasoned Tech-Hunter, Verity Brown and an enigmatic military android, India sets out to discover the secrets of Ironheart— a mythical f...
September 28, 2023
Review: The Runesong Trilogy Books 1 and 2
The Books:
Hammer of Fate
“No surrender. No retreat.” With twenty enemy swords at their backs and a broken bridge ahead, the last knights of an outlaw order turn to fight. A young woman with forbidden magic joins their final stand. And as blade meets blade, she starts to sing…
Adelais was raised in the far north, learning stories of the old gods and the skill of weaving runes into magic. Now, she is locked in a convent far from home, forced to kneel to a foreign god.
When inquisitors arrive with pla...
September 20, 2023
Pre-order The Arid Lands
The Arid Lands is now available for pre-order from Amazon UK and US for only 99p/99c.
Can one girl hold back the flood?
The Tyrhennians struggle to survive in the dried out basin of an ancient ocean. Inez knows no other world than this endless cycle of heat and brine, but listens to the stories of a distant land of great cities and endless seas.
She never believed them, until the day her brother is injured by a strange craft crossing the desolate plains. So she discovers that the stories are true. ...
September 12, 2023
Ten Years of RED ROCK
It is now ten years since Red Rock was first published.
Red Rock remained in print for nine years until my rights reverted and I self published it so that it would still be available. I’ve enjoyed the process. It’s good having control although I do now realise how much my publisher did with marketing and promotion. They fixed me up as a speaker at conferences and placed Red Rock into libraries (from which I still get a modest income in PLR).
My main market was through those travelling book fairs ...
September 5, 2023
The Arid Lands Cover reveal
Today I am delighted to share with you all, the cover for my next novel The Arid Lands, a dystopian Sci Fi thriller set in the Mediterranean 600 years from now.
August 23, 2023
The Arid Lands
This blog has been quiet recently for a number of reasons. Firstly I never have much spare time during the summer months, life takes over and there are so many places to see and things to do. I’m very much an outdoor person and can think of nothing worse than sitting indoors at my computer when the sun is shining inviting me out to play.
But in between all this sunshine and frolics things have been happening and progress has been made. The new thriller is coming on well, and I have decided to sel...
June 12, 2023
Sale of Two Drabbles
In case you are wondering, a drabble is a short story of exactly 100 words. And I'm delighted to share with you that two of my drabbles, 'Afterwards' and 'Oak and Ash' will be appearing at Wyldeblood Press in the not too distant future. I will let you know when they go live.
