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)

 

 

Review: Shadow of the Hidden by Kev Harrison

Shadow of the Hidden: A Novel of Adventure Horror by Kev Harrison
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Shadow of the Hidden is a compelling read. It has a fast pace, and takes the reader on a quest of sorts to find out if it's possible curses and the existence of a Djinn is possible.

Written in first person, we see it all through the eyes of a British man who has been living in this culture, and struggles to believe the events that takes place. Through this main character's eyes, Harrison absorbs us in the Turkish culture through not just description of location, but conversation, food and archeology. It's almost like we, the reader, are actually there.

The more the main characters discover, the faster the pace, and we get to visit Morocco and Egypt along the way. It ends in a dark confrontation, which for any horror lover is the pièce de résistance, and very well executed, and though we hope for a happy ending, we are left with a twist, and an opening.

I hope to read future tales from these characters as I really enjoyed them and wonder what other dark happenings they might uncover in other parts of the world.



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New Release: How to Create a Wraparound Book Cover using Canva, by M K Prince

I've just published a new book under a new author name M K Prince, because it's a non-fiction book, for Indie and Self-Published authors who want to create their own covers using Canva.

I've been doing it for years, and several people have asked me if I could show them, and I have promised people I would write a book about it, but of course it's time consuming as you have to take a lot of screenshots to show the process. 

How to Create a Wraparound Book Cover using Canva is now available on Amazon. I am debating making it wide, but I am not sure if it will sell more.

Click on the cover to pick up a copy.

Review: A Haunting at Collingwood House by Jack Rollins

A Haunting at Collingwood House by Jack Rollins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a brief and brutal introduction to Jack Rollins style and writing.

It's a tale of school bullying and Rollins really encapsulates the sheer terror when you are the victim. And this terror is mixed with the scary, creepy location they end up in. It delivers a nice little horror punch.

If you are looking for a new horror author to discover, this is a great starting point for Jack Rollin's books.

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Review: The Balance, by Kev Harrison

The Balance by Kev Harrison
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I have read a few of Kev Harrison's books now and this was one of his earlier stories, a novella. It's one of those books where you think you know where it's going, then it goes beyond.

The story is set in a village that is surrounded by forest in the middle of winter, and it tackles the division between pious religion and those that follow the rhythms of nature. It doesn't shy away from depicting church goers shunning herbalist or holistic living - seeing it as pagan and witch-like. If anything it shows how the witch hunts came about. (I live in Holland where I can visit the Witch-Weighing house that used to be considered the authority in the country - if you got a certificate from there saying you weren't a witch you were untouchable. But it only took your neighbour whispering it to someone to get you put on trial).

Anyway, Kev captures this kind of mindset in this dark tale, and then we get to see the consequences, which went further than I expected. An excellent bit of story telling and well worth it.

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