Hive takes shape

This is the sequel to Stan. It's called Hive. You can find it here.

I've tried not to make it a traditional 'Book 2 of a trilogy', as I hate them. It's set in the same reality as Stan, but 25 years on. Much has changed.

But some hasn't.

Sequel to Stan

The sequel to Stan is taking shape. I've got my plot outline sorted out, locations and characters. I've even started writing it! It's set 25 years after the end of Stan.

Now, what can I blow up this time?

FOG sales climbing

The first month of publication of FOG is encouraging. Sales have picked up, especially in the last week, or so. It's now at # 3750 in the UK charts.

FOG climbing the Amazon charts

In the 27 days that it's been out, FOG has climbed to no. 4,215 out of 420 thousand or so, in the Amazon UK sales charts.

Stan free for a week

Well, the first Kobo free-promo never happened, so I'm trying again. Stan is free from today, for a week, on Kobo. Follow this link.
Price matching on the other outlets should follow.

What's in a name?

I'm busy writing the sequel, or non-sequel, to Stan. It's set 25 years after Stan ended. What I need is names - character names. I could do the random-name-generator thing, or the favourite-rock-artist-name-combo thing, but I thought I might try something different.

Does anyone want their name used for a character? Please submit as replies to this post. There are, you will understand, some rules:

1. It must be your name, not some poor soul that you want to pick on, or embarrass;
2. So, following on from that;
3. It must be publishable;
4. No Bart Simpson phone-gag names;
5. I cannot guarantee that the character will match yours in any way, or indeed be nice - given that there aren't very many nice people in my books, it's very likely that they will not be nice - at all.
6. There is no reward, financial or otherwise, in having you name included, other than be able to point at it in the book and say "that's me" - if you dare own up to it.
7. The author's word (mine) is final.

FOG - Amazon sales

FOG has reached the heady heights of #86,759 in the UK paid-for rankings and #256,461 state-side.