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My short story, The Eyes of Water, will be out soon as a chapbook from Spectral Press. Run by the lovely Simon Marshall-Jones, Spectral is a terrific new publisher which has just been nominated for a BFS Award. I wrote this story after taking a holiday in Mexico, where I fell in love with the [...]

Copies of the special limited edition hardback of A Cold Season have landed . . . and they look stunning! I knew they would be lovely, coming from PS Publishing, but I was blown away by just how lovely they are. The artwork by David Gentry really sings, and the production quality is fantastic. I’m [...]

I was absolutely thrilled recently to hear that About the Dark, my short story that first appeared in Black Static magazine, has been picked by Stephen Jones for the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #23. I’ve got a stack of these long-running genre round-up collections on my shelf, so really looking forward to this! [...]

A Cold Season is now the featured read in the Richard and Judy Book Club, in association with WH Smith. Yay! To celebrate, here is a photo of ‘that’ moment on the couch! New content has been released on the WH Smith website, including: – A podcast discussing the book “She’s paced it beautifully – [...]

It’s especially nice to be the featured author in Black Static magazine (issue 27) from TTA Press. I first picked up a copy of the magazine back when I was an aspiring writer of short genre fiction (though it was named ‘The Third Alternative’ back then). I knew at once I would love to have [...]

Coming in March 2012 – those clever people at PS Publishing are producing a signed, jacketed hardback edition of A Cold Season, with a print run strictly limited to 300. A preview of the artwork is below:     It’s available for preorder at the PS Publishing website now.

Here’s a quick round-up of some videos up on Youtube! Earlier in the year I spent some time at the Quercus offices, and the lovely Caroline and Mark filmed some video interviews with me. In the first, I’m talking generally about A Cold Season: And in the next I’m talking about some of my favourite [...]

There are a few lovely projects in the pipeline, so I thought I’d have a quick round-up and let you know what’s coming soon! First, I was delighted to be asked to take part in a new anthology from Solaris, called Magic, edited by Jonathan Oliver. It also contains stories by Audrey Niffenegger, author of [...]

I was thrilled to hear that Black Feathers, a short story that was first published in issue 22 of Black Static magazine, has been selected for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume 4. Really pleased too for Simon Bestwick, who has not one but two stories in the anthology! I first read The [...]

It was really nice to go in to Radio Leeds again last week, to talk about how A Cold Season has been picked for the Richard and Judy Book Club. The programme is available on Listen Again (but only for a short time!) – my slot starts at 1 hour 43 minutes and was on [...]

It’s lovely to be able to open this blog with the news of A Cold Season being selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club! It’s going to be one of eight books featured for the spring 2012 season of the Club, which is run in conjunction with WHSmith. Watch out for special bonus content [...]