As you've probably noticed, The Condemned isn't out for you to buy and read/worship/line the budgie's cage with yet. That's my fault; I've dawdled a bit on the final checks and rewrites. The new collection should now be out around mid-May. Will keep you all posted on that.
In other news, I shall be at the Prestwich Book Festival at the British Legion in Prestwich (near Heaton Park Metrolink Station, it says here) on the evening of Monday 27th May, to help promote Impossible Spaces, a new anthology from Hic Dragones, the good people who organised the Manchester Monster Convention last year. Edited by Hannah Kate, it includes my story Trading Flesh. Also present will be superb Manchester poet Rosie Garland, whose collection Things I Did While I Was Dead I discovered, and loved, last year, and whose novel, The Palace Of Curiosities, is out now
from HarperCollins. Also present will be new author Toby Stone, and a bunch of contributors to the anthology. Plus an honest to good cryptozoologist- a field I admit to being fascinated by.
I'll hopefully have some copies of The Faceless and The Condemned to flog and sign, too.
Finally, I have a couple of new film reviews up at This Is Horror: Franck Khalfoun's Maniac and Levan Bakhia and Beqa Jguburia's 247 F.
As you may remember, until quite recently this blog was a wee bit on the quiet side. I mentioned there'd been a few problems off-stage, which I might tell you about it should it be relevant.
Well, it is now, sort of. The latest instalment of my Heretic Songs column over at This Is Horror explains why.
James Herbert, author of novels such as The Rats, Lair, Domain, Haunted, The Magic Cottage and many others, died suddenly this week, aged 69.
His death came as a great shock to many readers and writers of horror fiction- he'd been a constant presence on the scene since the late '70s, and an influence on many contemporary authors. Many tributes have been paid to him: mine is up over at This Is Horror if you'd like to read it.
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Hello all. Today's a day for a few updates.
In other news, I shall be at the Prestwich Book Festival at the British Legion in Prestwich (near Heaton Park Metrolink Station, it says here) on the evening of Monday 27th May, to help promote Impossible Spaces, a new anthology from Hic Dragones, the good people who organised the Manchester Monster Convention last year. Edited by Hannah Kate, it includes my story Trading Flesh. Also present will be superb Manchester poet Rosie Garland, whose collection Things I Did While I Was Dead I discovered, and loved, last year, and whose novel, The Palace Of Curiosities, is out now 
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