“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” – John Steinbeck For one week The Cundy is on sale for 99p (99c). It’s a promotion that’s been lined up…

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” – Dracula, Bram Stoker It’s April already, which means I’m another year older (ugh), the…

Some pics from the launch event yesterday at Hartlepool Central Hub on York Road…

The Cundy is based in the northeast of England and so to keep it as real as possible, I stayed true to local dialect and terminology. I think international readers will easily be able to pick up on and identify…

The Cundy is a coming of age tale set in the mid-90s in my hometown, Horden, in the northeast of England. I took inspiration from local history, specifically from the time when Scula the Danish Viking warlord ruled the area…

It’s March! Which means, it’s the month of The Cundy! Yesterday I went on a field trip to where the book is based and took some photos. Buried deep within the dene, this water conduit (known locally as the cundy)…

On the final day of Women in Horror Month I’m choosing myself because, hey, I need some love too! It’s a tough gig being an indie horror author. One of my main strengths as a writer, so I’m told, is…

Today I’m choosing author Richie Tankersley Cusick. She wrote quite a few of the Point Horror books, which I devoured as a teen, including the very first one that I ever picked up and read – Trick or Treat. For…

Today I’m choosing writer and humanist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Her story The Yellow Wallpaper was a semi-biographical piece written when she was suffering from postnatal depression. The Yellow Wallpaper is a harrowing tale in which Gilman highlights the issue of…

Today I’m choosing author Sarah Pinborough specifically for her novel Mayhem which is a supernatural thriller set in the time when Jack the Ripper was on the prowl. As well as the fact that I do love a good Jack the…