Progress

Got Brodmaw Bay off to Hodder last week, which felt like an achievement because I think the fifth of these novels involving the paranormal I've done is also the scariest.
Readers will be the real judges of that claim - and it is not published until November.
Since Dark Echo (which like The House of Lost Souls, involved satanic ritual), I have tried to do something different thematically with each of the books. In Magdalena Curse it was the notion of sharing the world with a separate and malevolent species capable of sorcery. In Waiting Room, it was the consequence of using an alchemical ritual capable of returning the dead to life. In Brodmaw Bay it is a fataful encounter with paganism practiced in a remote corner of England.
In the last two books, the protagonists have tended to be strong and resourceful individuals. In this one, they are far more fallible.
It would be boring to go on writing essentially the same book and just changing the names of the characters - though there are writers who do that very successfully.
I hope that Bay offers enough atmospheric chills to please existing readers of the books and to attract new ones. That's all I can hope for, really.