Here’s one big bit of news I’ve been hinting at … my new novel COLDBROOK will be published in March next year by the one and only HAMMER. Here’s the press release. I’m absolutely thrilled about this, as you can imagine. A book. Of mine. with ‘Hammer’ on the spine.
Coldbrook is a huge, sprawling apocalyptic zombie novel about the end of this world … and others.
More soon. I’m off for a glass of wine.
My novella NAMING OF PARTS gets a tenth anniversary appearance this year in Zombies: The Recent Dead, a ten year zombie retrospective edited by Paula Guran. You can see the full table of contents here.
They’re almost here … those zombie crowds, ready to eat off your face and shamble (or run, if you’re a modern zombiephile) after you.
My good friend Christopher Golden has edited a splendid anthology of all-new zombie stories (including my novelette In The Dust), and you really, really need to get this. Here are the relevant links:
USA: St Martin’s Griffin
UK: Piatkus
This is just such a neat idea …
Take one crap reality TV show, have it take place in a world slowly being taken over by zombies, people it with characters no more outragous that the oddballs you usually get on the show … and then turn the real-life presenter into a zombie!
I can’t stand Big Brother. I watched some of the first series and found it mildly interesting, but from series 2 on it was painful to watch, exploitive victim-TV at its worst. There was a time when I thought, “Why not introduce a mass-murderer into the house and see how these feeble fucks handle that!” Never happened – probably because the producers couldn’t get permission, more than anything else – but this is certainly the next best thing.
Davina as a zombie. I’m there.
Writing updates: I’ve been working hard on The Secret Journeys of Jack London, the YA series I’m writing with Christopher Golden for Atheneum in the USA. It’s going to be a scorcher, and Chris and I are thrilled with how it’s going. More news on this as and when it’s available.
Also been tinkering with ideas and sample chapters for a possible dark crime novel … we’ll see if this one has legs. And a screenplay, a novella, and some short story idea for three anthologies I’ve been invited to submit to but which I can’t say much about just yet …
More soon!
If they found a way to record or film dreams, last night I’d have made the best zombie movie ever. Forget Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, et al … my dreams beat them all hands down. At one point I was a father fleeing through a huge hotel with his son, doing his best to escape from the zombie plague rising quickly from the lower floors; then I was a crack female soldier with a high-powered rifle shooting zombies from the top of a long flight of stairs; then I was in a titty bar that was suddenly flooded with zombies. Even some of the titties were scary. Ah yes, sometimes, I love being a horror writer.
And talking of horror writing, my new novella THE REACH OF CHILDREN is available now. Click through to check out the details, a couple of reviews and a brief synopsis. One of the best things I’ve ever written, I think, and initial reaction is very positive indeed. Give it a try, let me know what you think ….
