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May 21, 2016
What Horror Writers Talk About When They Talk About Love
Recently, James Everington invited me to write a piece for his blog to promote the upcoming publication of his novella, Trying To Be So Quiet (Book Books). The theme is ‘What Horror Writers Talk About When They Talk About Love’. Here’s my article.
My second son is due to be born within the next month, so my response to the theme is related to parental love. My reference points in the article are two of my favourite films, Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) and Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsk...
March 29, 2016
Cover reveal! YOU DON’T BELONG HERE
Guys! My novel has a front cover!
I’m immensely proud of this cover – it really isn’t the easiest novel to encapsulate in an illustration – and I owe huge thanks to the wonderful Emma Barnes at Snowbooks.
The lovely quote from Adam Roberts doesn’t hurt, either. (Have you read Bête and The Thing Itself yet? Do, do, do.)
February 29, 2016
Winter Tales from Fox Spirit
Fox Spirit’s new anthology, Winter Tales, is available today!
As well as having been edited by the very lovely Margrét Helgadóttir, and featuring terrific cover art by S. L Johnson, and featuring stories from a wealth of exciting authors, it also contains my story, ‘Winter in the Vivarium’, which was written specifically for the anthology.
The Amazon.co.uk link is up now.
January 8, 2016
Carus & Mitch on awards shortlist
Yeep – CARUS & MITCH is on the shortlist for the This Is Horror Awards! I’m finding it really hard to accept that that’s my name alongside all those terrific authors. I feel awfully proud.
December 23, 2015
Short story: All I Can See Are Sad Eyes
The Literary Hatchet #13 is out now and features (along with a huge amount of other fiction!) my short, weird story, ‘All I Can See Are Sad Eyes’. The issue is free to download as a pdf from the Literary Hatchet website.
December 9, 2015
Favourite tracks of 2015
Favourite albums of 2015
Dream a Garden by Jam City (Night Slugs)
A few years ago my friend Charley and I did a series of Spotify mix swaps, with each one based on an agreed theme. It was good fun, but the theme that killed off the game for good was titled ‘Found a c90 on the floor of my dad’s VW Polo’ – that is, recent songs that sounded like they could have been released circa 1986 and therefore have been part of our childhoods. Every song on Dream a Garden could have been included in that mix. On first listen, I...
November 16, 2015
Call for submissions: Upside Down anthology (Apex)
Apex really are doing their damnedest to keep us writing throughout the winter… Now that their Christmas flash contest has ended, why not have a crack at a story for their new anthology?
The anthology will be edited by Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates and is called Upside Down – and it’s a fascinating concept. The idea is to pick an SF/F trope (i.e. an idea that’s seen so regularly in stories as to become a lazy shorthand or even a cliché), then subvert it. A bunch of stories have already...
November 3, 2015
Call for submissions: Harper Voyager Impulse
It seems like every publisher’s on the lookout for novel manuscripts at the moment…
This time it’s Harper Voyager Impulse (USA). While the imprint publishes ebooks within all fantasy, science fiction, and horror sub-genres, this submission call is particularly geared around urban fantasy and military science fiction. If you’ve a completed manuscript in that vein, and it’s between 60,000 and 90,000 words in length, why not give it a shot? You’ll have to move quickly though – the submission win...
November 2, 2015
Flash fiction in Body Parts #5
My flash story, ‘The Puzzle Box’, is now up on the Body Parts Magazine website as part of issue #5, available to read for free. It’s only 250 words long, so you’ll have finished reading it before you finish your morning coffee.
The issue also contains some fantastic artwork by David Van Gough, like this:
