Tag: YA horror

  • It’s US release day for The Devouring Light!

    The Devouring Light has been out in the UK for just over a month, and now it’s the US’s turn to encounter the creepy abandoned house, deadly leech-infested swamp, and a host of other terrors contained within its pages 🙂 Have you added it to your Halloween TBR yet? When Haden Romero, her bandmate, and…

  • The Evolution of The Devouring Light’s book cover

    “Do you have any thoughts about what you’d like your cover to look like?” This is one of those questions most authors I’ve spoken to love to hear from their publishing team. I know I definitely do. It doesn’t happen with every book; sometimes your team have a really clear idea of what they think…

  • The Devouring Light – 25% off at Waterstones online

    Time to grab a bargain! Pre-order my latest YA horror novel The Devouring Light from Waterstones online here between 28-31 July to get 25% off with code SUMMER25. It’s only 6 weeks now until its U.K. release, so you won’t even have long to wait for it to arrive! 😁 When Haden Romero and her…

  • Brilliant books I blurbed in 2024

    One of the things I enjoy most about my job – aside from the writing itself – is sometimes getting a chance to read another author’s book early, and even offer a quote/blurb to be used by the author or publisher to help promote it. As I was looking back over my reading this year,…

  • Fictional Hangover LIVE this Sunday!

    This weekend, at 8pm on Sunday 27th October, Dawn Kurtagich and I will be joining Clare and Amanda from Fictional Hangover podcast for a special Halloween LIVE episode on their YouTube channel. We’ll be in full costume, of course, and talking about my newsletter-exclusive short story, Phantom Image, where a teenager’s digital photography project takes…

  • 5 Random Questions with Logan-Ashley Kisner, author of Old Wounds

    In the Halloween issue of my newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Logan-Ashley Kisner about his debut YA horror, Old Wounds, in which trans teens Max and Erin get trapped in a creepy, small town where the locals are determined to sacrifice them to the local monster – which only eats…

  • Instagram Live this Sunday!

    It’s been a while since I’ve done an online live event, but as it’s spooky season, I’ve got a couple lined up – and the first one is this Sunday! Join me, Dawn Kurtagich and Kathryn Foxfield as we chat to Chelley from @TalesPointHorrorBookClub on IG about a Point Horror Unleashed title: The Hanging Tree…

  • 5 Random Questions with Lisa Richardson, author of Channel Fear

    In February’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Lisa Richardson about her debut YA horror, Channel Fear. In it, Iris, Byron and Molly are following in the footsteps of 2 famous YouTubers, Zach and Lucas, who disappeared while on a ghost hunt several months ago. Now, with tensions running high between…

  • 5 Random Questions with Diana Rodriguez Wallach, author of Hatchet Girls

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Diana Rodriguez Wallach about her latest heart-pounding YA horror, Hatchet Girls. Inspired by the Borden murders, Hatchet Girls kicks off in modern day with a new grisly crime scene in the town where those infamous axe murders took place back in 1892.…

  • The Devouring Light is coming in 2025!

    It’s been a while since I’ve been able to do one of these book announcement posts, and I am over the moon to be sharing that my next YA horror novel titled The Devouring Light will be published by HarperCollins in 2025. This book is my scariest yet, but also my most fun … at…