Two Years On
Two years ago today was my first day working as a full-time writer. Leaving work to write for a living was a big decision, but definitely one of the best I’ve ever made, and through the downs as well as the ups I haven’t regretted it for a moment. It seems a lot longer than two years ago that I last left Monmouthshire County Council’s dodgy old building (it’s effectively falling down), and looking at the amount I’ve written since then, perhaps there has been a time-warp thingy going on somewhere. Here’s a rough list:
- 30 Days of Night
- Fallen
- Mind the Gap (with Christopher Golden)
- The Map of Moments (with Christopher Golden) – forthcoming
- The Secret Journeys of Jack London: Book One (with Christopher Golden) – forthcoming
- Hellboy: The Fire Wolves - forthcoming
- The Island - forthcoming
- The Toxic City: London Eye
- A Whisper of Southern Lights
- The Reach of Children
As well as those novels and novellas I’ve done several short stories, two screenplays (The Everlasting and The Dregs), and plenty of other stuff. It does make me wonder how the hell I wrote so much when I was working, but the fact that I’m still working just as hard after two years is great. I’ve still got plenty of work on … and a big THANKS is due to you discerning readers who continue to buy my books!
And on it goes …! I wrote a novelette this weekend for a US market (sending it to the editor for consideration today), brainstormed a new screenplay with a good friend of mine, and this week it’s back to the Yukon to finish off book one of the Jack London series.
Many more announcements coming soon, including a new short story option. So please do keep popping by, and in another year I hope the above list will be much, much longer.
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Kel Boon was once an agent of the land’s most secret organisation, tracking and eliminating the Strangers from beyond Noreela. But then one horrifying encounter left his superior officer–and lover–dead, along with many innocents. Kel has been running ever since, hiding out as a simple wood-carver in the fishing village of Pavmouth Breaks. When when a mysterious island appears during a cataclysmic storm, sending tidal waves to smash the village, his training tells him to expect the worst. How can he warn the surviving villagers that the visitors may not be the peace-loving pilgrims they claim to be? That this might be the invasion he has long feared … and that he may be Noreela’s last chance?
