This will only be a brief update, as I’m juggling several writing plates at present.

For a start, I’m deep into the planning of my next novel, to be written in earnest early next year. This is the second in a long-running supernatural thriller series I’m planning. The first novel was written earlier this year, and I’m going to revisit that manuscript next year to start polishing, testing on beta-readers, and so forth. I’m very excited about this series, which introduces a couple of recurring investigator characters I’ve rather fallen in love with. I hope you do too, when you get the chance to read them. But that’s probably at least a couple of years away, at this point.

In the slightly nearer future, paying subscribers to my Substack page will get to see the horror short stories I’m currently writing, possibly as early as next year. One is a ghost story (first draft finished), the other a sort-of body horror piece that perhaps someone like David Cronenberg could make into a suitably twisted film (currently halfway through the first draft). These will be released after I’ve finished serialising The Hobbford Giant, a horror mystery novel currently being released in weekly instalments. To whet your appetite, why not read the first chapter here, absolutely free?

There’s more I could say, but I’m sure you’d prefer that I was hard at work writing, so I’ll get back to it. I’ll return with another update at the end of next month.

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