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October 25, 2023
Now THAT is a bookshop!
Now THAT is a bookshop!
Over half-term we took a short break up near Oxford, and spent a very enjoyable day walking round the venerable city. I went to Blackwell’s, a bookshop that’s been around since the nineteenth century, and was reminded of how a good bookshop will really inspire you. Whilst it’s great to have Waterstone’s in Dorking, where I live, it’s small and seems to always have the same or similar books on display – with a good portion of the shop given over to small gifts and to...
October 9, 2023
The Ghosts of Alice: Spectacular Spooktober Sale!
Later this week I’m starting a (thinks fast) Spectacular Spooktober Sale (!!) on The Ghosts of Alice series.
Running up to Halloween, each of the three titles will have a week on sale on Kindle at the discounted price of 99p/99c.
If you haven’t discovered The Ghosts of Alice yet, it’s a series of standalone books that feature Alice Deaton, a young woman with a mysterious connection to the dead. In the first book, the bestselling The Boy in the Burgundy Hood, Alice lands her dream job t...
October 6, 2023
Black Beacon – Cover Reveal!
Ta-dah! As promised, here’s the new cover of my forthcoming Christmas ghost story, Black Beacon – a spooky tale of love and betrayal, set in the 1970s on the South Downs of East Sussex.
What do you think?
Hope to have it out early November!
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July 17, 2023
A house with a troubled personality? The setting of The Man in the Woods
Do you think a house can have a troubled personality?
My latest novella, The Man in the Woods, is set in the Surrey Hills. It’s a landscape of rolling pine-clad hills and gentle valleys, a place where it doesn’t take long to find deep stillness and magic, belying the fact it’s less than an hour’s drive from London.
scary house in mysterious horror forest at nightI’ve been living on the edge of the Surrey Hills for 13 years now and love the place. But, as is common with creative writin...
June 27, 2023
The Man in the Woods – a reading
What better time to do a video reading than on the release of a new book!?
People have been saying some very nice things on Amazon and Instagram about my new psychological thriller, The Man in the Woods. Here’s a few of them:
***** I can���t recommend this book highly enough
***** You���ll be blown away by the ending
***** An easy 5 stars, deserving of 10
If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, here’s a short video reading from the opening chapter to tempt you!
Here’s the b...
June 19, 2023
The Man in the Woods is out now!
I’m excited to tell you my latest book, a chilling psychological novella called The Man in the Woods, is out now!
The blurb is limited on this one, as I don’t want to give too much away:
Who is… The Man in the Woods?
The woods are deep and dark and cold and empty…
… except for a solitary boy, out riding his bike…
… and a lone wanderer…
What will happen when their paths cross?
Whatever it is, things will never be the same again.
The Man in t...
June 7, 2023
Coming soon… The Man in the Woods!
Here’s the new cover for my forthcoming book, The Man in the Woods.
It’s a chilling, psychological suspense novella with a dark twist.
More news soon…
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April 24, 2023
“Ghost Stories” reading event – Saturday 13 May
Really looking forward to this event organised by the fantastic people at Ghost Walks Surrey and Explorers Events Ltd!
If you’re nearby, why not come along and join us? A spooky ghost tour of the town will be followed by me doing a reading and Q&A. Plus there’ll be an opportunity to buy signed copies of my books.
See below for more details, reposted from Ghost Walks Surrey Facebook page:
A new and exclusive event in collaboration with local author Steve Griffin.
Steve is the autho...
March 5, 2023
What I’m writing now…
The few months since I published my latest Ghosts of Alice novel, Alice and the Devil have flown by. I’ve been very happy with the reviews (averaging 4.5 stars on Amazon!) – and wanted to let you know the things I���m excited to be working on next.
A Christmas Ghost StoryI���ve loved reading Shani Struther���s Christmas ghost stories (link below), so on the runup to Christmas I started on my own festive ghost story. It’s set on the South Downs of England and it���s a departure for me i...
January 25, 2023
Author redundancy alert!
I was playing around with the new AI language tool, ChatGPT, recently. I wondered how it would do if I asked it to generate an author bio for a ghost story writer. That���s all the detail I gave it and at once it produced this, which I���ve tailored with my name and books only. You can see why UK universities are currently scrambling to work out how to assess students, when it produces reasonable essays on pretty much anything ranging from the causes of WW1 to Brexit.
And, whilst a bi...
