Tricky's Tales Book Sale, going on until the end of January 2025!

You might have already noticed that the ebook editions of my Tricky's Tales book are currently on sale. If you haven't, they are, for the entire month of January 2025!

They are on sale across ALL book selling platforms. And on some platforms you might get a 'bundle offer' - like on DriveThruFiction and Google Play Books.

Click on the banner below to be taken to the bookfunnel link which lists all the major the bookseller sites to buy. 

Review: Billy Summers, by Stephen King

Billy Summers by Stephen King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

For me, recent books of King's have been very hit and miss, but this one was very much a hit. I was completely engrossed, and there was a lot of character development in this one, which might have bored other readers, but it's what I love the most about King's writing.

In this one you also get a story within a story - and maybe two really. First you have the main character, Billy, writing his life story which is a whole other story, and you get the story of his Alice Maxwell which then crosses over into Billy's.

I loved the mix of different characters Billy encounters and works with and his two personas he uses for his 'work', and different lives that Billy leads within this story and within the inner story of his life. King brings in so many ideas into the story, from veterans and their PTSD, to a woman being gang raped and the 'just desserts' the perpetrators get.

This is not an easy read, and has many disturbing scenes of varying degrees. As always King doesn't shy away from any of it, and running the background there is a political narrative going on, and also a narrative about rich media men and what they can get away with.

I loved it all, and it gave me a huge book handover - which for me is an indicator of an excellent book. Definite recommend from me. Now I have to go and find another book that I will look forward to reading as much as I did this every night before I went to bed - and in fact kept me awake a lot longer than it should!

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New Cover for Sleep, by M K Boers 😀

I received the final proofs for the new cover of Sleep, my psychological thriller, and I'm really excited to share it. It's far more genre defined and I hope it will give the book a new lease of life, and it will find more readers.

Sleep was my debut novel back in 2019. It's still the favourite of all the books I've written so far. It's a book that took me 27 years to publish from it's initial conception in 1991 - the prologue is actually the short piece I wrote back then (though heavily edited since). I'm really proud of this book, not least because one of the reviews it received was from someone who used to be a court stenographer, and they told me it was the most accurate depiction of a UK court room they'd ever read in a crime novel - and they're a book blogger.

A whydunnit rather than a whodunnit, Sleep follows a woman on trial for killing her husband and his lover. Was it premeditated, a crime of passion, or a moment of madness? Told through a series of flashbacks and testimony, what drove Lizzy Dyson to murder are revealed. 

Interview about Slipping Through, with ManyBooks website

 A year ago I released Slipping Through (well, re-released, turning it into an anthology with three other authors). I promoted the release and during that promotion had an interview with ManyBooks, talking about what it is about, and how it came about. I don't appear to have posted it up on my blog last year, so I am going to do it this year! Click on the picture below to read the article.

Miranda Kate - Fascinating Dark Sci-Fi Fantasy Collection

The Twilight Zone meets Quantum Leap meets The Outer Limits meets Sliders

My favourite 3 reads of 2024

Over on Shepherd book website, they asked me what my top three reads for 2024 were so I told them! If you are interested in what the favourites were of other authors why not take a look, it's a great site for finding new books to read. 

Click on the picture below to find out why.

And if you are an author, Shepherd are always looking for more authors to join, so get in touch with them here. It cost nothing! 

New Covers for Tricky's series are here! 🥳

I have been waiting for the final changes on the three new covers for Tricky's Tales series to be finalised and was blown away with it as I have been with the first two. And now I am busy trying to get them up everywhere. So without further a do, there they are. I hope you love them as much as I do! (click on the bottom banner to purchase)