Merry Christmas
Had a great few days at my old mate Tim Lebbon's house the weekend before last. Tim and I are working on a project together, and we had an incredibly productive couple of afternoons in Tim's study, firing ideas at each other. I can't say too much about the project just yet, but it's something we're both really looking forward to getting our teeth in to. We've laid all the groundwork now and the plan is to start the actual writing round about April/May, by which time hopefully our various other commitments will be out of the way.
It wasn't all work at Tim's, though. It was great to spend time with Tim's wife, Tracey, their lovely kids, Ellie and Dan, and their mad dog, Blu. We ate a lot of good food and drank a lot of good wine, which we offset by taking Blu on a couple of woodland walks in absolutely perfect conditions - bright sunlight shining on a glittering frost-covered landscape. Beautiful.
I finished and delivered a commissioned short story this afternoon and am now getting to that stage where my brain is winding down for Christmas. There are cards to write and presents to wrap and the house to clean in time for the arrival of relatives next week.
Before I go, though, I just wanted to share a couple of covers with you. The first is for a new version of my 2005 novella, Stumps, which was originally published in the Cemetery Dance anthology, Fourbodings, edited by Pete Crowther. This new version will be published by Barrington Stoke, who produce books for reluctant readers, and has been reduced from 45,000 to 15,000 words. I'm not sure exactly when it's out, but I think it's around springtime next year.
The second cover is for my Torchwood novel, Bay of the Dead, which will be out in May. Despite spending twenty years ostensibly as a horror writer, I can honestly say that this is the goriest cover I've ever had. I love it!
Merry Christmas!
It wasn't all work at Tim's, though. It was great to spend time with Tim's wife, Tracey, their lovely kids, Ellie and Dan, and their mad dog, Blu. We ate a lot of good food and drank a lot of good wine, which we offset by taking Blu on a couple of woodland walks in absolutely perfect conditions - bright sunlight shining on a glittering frost-covered landscape. Beautiful.
I finished and delivered a commissioned short story this afternoon and am now getting to that stage where my brain is winding down for Christmas. There are cards to write and presents to wrap and the house to clean in time for the arrival of relatives next week.
Before I go, though, I just wanted to share a couple of covers with you. The first is for a new version of my 2005 novella, Stumps, which was originally published in the Cemetery Dance anthology, Fourbodings, edited by Pete Crowther. This new version will be published by Barrington Stoke, who produce books for reluctant readers, and has been reduced from 45,000 to 15,000 words. I'm not sure exactly when it's out, but I think it's around springtime next year.
The second cover is for my Torchwood novel, Bay of the Dead, which will be out in May. Despite spending twenty years ostensibly as a horror writer, I can honestly say that this is the goriest cover I've ever had. I love it!
Merry Christmas!
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