Archive - September 2019

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It’s That Friday Feeling
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Another Week Bites The Dust
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Golgotha Cover Reveal
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Sepultura Has A New Blurb

It’s That Friday Feeling

Sep 27 2019
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No, that’s not for you …

It’s been a mixed Friday so far. On the plus side, I ate a delicious chicken wrap from the local Indian restaurant and scrawled out 1k words of what I am tentatively calling my work in progress. On a less positive note, I managed to put a massive crack in my computer screen. Having carried it successfully downstairs, I cracked it when putting it down on my desk. The crack puts in the shade the smaller crack the computer ‘repair’ shop made to it the other day. Considering the hell I gave them for their unprofessionalism, it seems only fair that I give myself a hard time too.

The good news is it still works. Here’s a breakfast I ate earlier in the week. England might have a poor culinary reputation, but you can’t beat English Breakfasts.

Like Dyson Devereux, the protagonist in the Necropolis Trilogy, I am a big fan of Italian delicacies. This week I indulged in a fair few.

These truffles (tartufo) proved to be particularly delicious.

I am also a fan of less sophisticated fare. Take the kebab I was poised to eat last weekend when the doorbell rang. On returning to the kitchen, I discovered my dog had eaten near on all of it save for a piece of tomato.

Is that the time? Best be getting to the supermarket. The fun never stops. Have a good weekend.

Another Week Bites The Dust

Sep 20 2019
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It’s Friday again. They sure come around fast. Last week I unveiled the front cover for Golgotha (release: early Dec) the final instalment in my black comedy Necropolis Trilogy. If you missed it, here it is again.

On another subject, today I came across these three Roe deer on my morning walk.

They didn’t seem too alarmed by my dog and I. Evidently they were not aware of how keen on venison we are. Trigga was fixated on this tree in my garden for ages yesterday. Likelihood is a squirrel had gone up it, or it contains a late season pigeon nest.

The garden is still growing pretty quick, and having ignored it for a few weeks, the time has come to get back to work.

What with all the dog walking and gardening, I have been losing weight. So, it’s out with the healthy stuff …

And in with the high calorie fare. You can’t beat vegetable samosas and onion bhajis.

Three chocolate brownies down; two to go.

A book delivery arrived yesterday. It’s a good feeling receiving new books; if you’re a bibliophile like me that is. For the most part, my reading matter currently comprises the genres I write in; namely dark humour and Transgressive Fiction. While Dark Places doesn’t fit into those categories, it is dark fiction. I will be reviewing them here and on Goodreads in due course. All I need now is some bookshelves to store this ever-expanding reading matter.

A reminder that Tomorrow’s World: Darkly Humorous Tales From The Future is free at all retailers. My satirical book of vignettes finally received a decent batch of reviews on Amazon US this week. It appears my book is a bit like Marmite. People either love it or hate it.

And that’s it for this week. Have a good weekend. And if your nation is playing in the Rugby World Cup, I wish you the best of luck, unless your from Tonga that is.

Golgotha Cover Reveal

Sep 13 2019
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Today, I am pleased to unveil the front cover for my forthcoming black comedy, Golgotha (release date: early December).

I am impressed with the design the team at Ebook Launch came up with. It captures the book’s tone perfectly. Golgotha is the final instalment in the popular Necropolis Trilogy. It will see the return of darkly humorous sociopath Dyson Devereux. I look forward to revealing the blurb and more besides in due course. 

The first two instalments in the trilogy are #1 Necropolis & #2 Sepultura. 
 

800 Ratings and Reviews on Goodreads 

‘The book (#1) is full of razor-sharp satire’ – Crime Fiction Lover

‘… a magnificent foray into the mind of a sociopath’ – DLS Reviews

‘… a mix between The Office and American Psycho’ – Amazon Reviewer

If you like dark humour you’ll love the Necropolis Trilogy

Retailer Links (eBook & paperback) – Amazon US Amazon UK Kobo US Kobo UK Kobo CA Barnes & Noble Smashwords

Have a good weekend.

Sepultura Has A New Blurb

Sep 06 2019
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As many of you are aware, the third instalment in the Necropolis Trilogy will be unleished on the world late this year (date to follow). The darkly humorous Golgotha will see the return of sociopath Dyson Devereux. I look forward to releasing more information in due course.

Today, I am pleased to unveil the new blurb for the second part in the trilogy. Those who have helped me modify the blurb for Sepultura are of the opinion that the new version better describes the book, particularly the conflict which lurks at the heart of it. And I agree with them. Here it is.

A sociopath’s work is never done.

Dyson Devereux is a busy man, with a challenging new job in the council’s Burials and Cemeteries department and a young son. Life should be fine.

But amid the mindless minutiae of his workplace, Dyson is fast losing patience with his crass colleagues and their contemptible clothes. Something’s got to give, and it’s not going to be Dyson.

Because unbeknown to those around him, beneath Dyson’s charming, Italian-delicacy-consuming veneer lurks something sinister. As his personal and professional lives threaten to spiral out of control, how long can Dyson keep his true nature under wraps?   

Sepultura is a hilarious black comedy exposing the banality of public-sector bureaucracy.  

“Hysterical. Takes dark humour to a whole new level” — Martin Allen, Author of Weed.

“A satirical gem” — Adam Riley, Comedian

Necropolis Trilogy retailer links – Amazon US, Amazon UK, Kobo US, Kobo UK, Kobo Ca

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