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Ten Years of Publishing!

This has been an amazing year for me. I���ve been writing since I worked out which way up to hold a pencil but my publishing journey didn���t begin until 2014 ��� ten years ago. Since then I���ve published 10 novels, 2 novellas, and 2 books of poetry!

It���s been a blast. Whilst it���s not my main income source (I also work part-time for a neighbourhood charity in London), reading and writing have always been at the core of who I am. I wrote stories as a boy for my friends, published poet...

Alice in India

My latest novel, Alice and the Broken Dead, finds Alice Deaton travelling to India to help a family beset by a poltergeist-style haunting.

For those of you who have read my young adult series, The Secret of the Tirthas, you���ll know how prominently India features in the first of those (and occasionally throughout the remainder). My inspiration came from an extended trip I made when I was 25, which incorporated a month in Nepal and 3 in India ��� followed by a month in Burma and 2 in Thai...

Alice and the Broken Dead: A Reading

Today, a short reading from my new ghost story, Alice and the Broken Dead, perfect to get you in the mood for Halloween!

It’s the latest in my bestselling series The Ghosts of Alice, about a young woman who discovers she has a strange ability to connect with the dead.

Each book is a standalone ghost story, but connections run between them. So you can read them in any order, although it’s probably best to start with the first, The Boy in the Burgundy Hood.

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The Ghosts of Alice: Pre-Halloween Sale!

PRE-HALLOWEEN SALE!

Just to let you know that, to celebrate the release of the fourth Ghosts of Alice book, Alice and the Broken Dead, I’m running a Kindle Countdown Deal on the other books in the bestselling series about a woman with a mysterious connection to the dead. The Boy in the Burgundy Hood is 50% off and The Girl in the Ivory Dress and Alice and the Devil 35% off!

Perfect reading for the run up to Halloween – grab them while you can!

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Alice and the Broken Dead – out now!

It’s release day!!

The latest Ghosts of Alice novel, Alice and the Broken Dead, is out now!

I’d been planning to get it out at the start of October, well in time for Halloween – and thankfully, despite a few set backs, I’ve made it!

So what’s in store for our intrepid ghost-whisperer Alice next?

Well, it starts with Alice happy – very happy – standing in the Himalayas watching the sunrise over the mountains. Of course, as you’d expect, things can only go downhill – literally – fr...

Coming Soon – Alice and the Broken Dead

Coming soon – the fourth book of The Ghosts of Alice series, Alice and the Broken Dead!

Here’s the cover – what do you think?

Discover The Ghosts of Alice on Amazon.

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My ‘Marmite’ Book

I���ve decided to do a few general posts about my books. Obviously every time you speak or post about something it���s promotion, but these are not going to be the usual my book is great please buy it sort of thing.

I want to give a feel for things that I think are interesting about each book, maybe why I wrote it, what I was hoping to achieve, how I tried to promote it, or just something leftfield about it.

I���m going to start with my ‘Marmite’ book.

I���ve got two novellas out,...

The Secret of the Tirthas Summer Sale!

The Secret of the Tirthas Summer Sale is here!

Going somewhere nice this summer? How about if you could avoid all the hassle of travel just by stepping out your backdoor and going to fantastic places through portals hidden in your own garden?

Sounds good, huh? BUT… what if you then found a killer was using those same portals to evade capture?

That’s what happens to Lizzie Jones in The Secret of the Tirthas adventure series. After inheriting her great-uncle’s cottage and ‘garden of ro...

The Ghosts of Alice – Book 4

A few people have been asking whether there’s going to be another Ghosts of Alice book – so I’ll start by saying… yes there is!

Having written two standalone horror stories last year – The Man in the Woods and Black Beacon – I’ve returned to the fourth instalment of Alice’s story. I recently finished the first draft and am now going through, marking up changes. I’d give you the title but unfortunately I haven’t settled on it yet – which is unusual for me, because I usually know the title e...

Start of Summer Sale on The Ghosts of Alice!

Just to let you know I���m holding a Start of Summer Sale on the Ghosts of Alice series!

For the first time ever, The Boy in the Burgundy Hood, the first book in the series, is absolutely FREE on Kindle!��If you haven���t already read it, now���s your chance to discover the plight of Alice Deaton, a young woman with a mysterious connection to the dead, as she prepares��the opening of medieval Bramley Manor for a heritage trust. What will she do when the ghosts start appearing ��� the boy i...