Apologies for the very long silence whilst in the throes of writing, editing, proofreading, and participating in various stages of the production of... Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead ! The last novel in the Poe & Dupin sleuthing trilogy has just been published by Point Blank Books in the U.K., with a press date of 🎃💀 31 October 2019 💀🎃— which is very appropriate given (a good deal of) the novel’s setting, and the notion in folklore that from 31 October to 2 No

The advance copies of the paperback version of Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru have just been delivered to my publisher in London: Point Blank Books, an imprint of Oneworld Publications. Can't wait to get my hands on them in a few weeks-- they are a beautiful follow-up to the elegant hardback published by Pegasus Books (USA) in May. Very happy. The emerald of 'Jewel of Peru' is also a lovely progression from the ruby of 'London Monster'... Not that the books have to b

Wheee! Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster has taken flight in the U.S. in paperback form thanks to Pegasus Books. #EdgarAllanPoe #CAugusteDupin #Gothicmystery #Mystery #HistoricalFiction #historicalcrime #LiteraryCrime

Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster will be published in Russia by AST publications in early November, and I've just been sent the art work. I'm very pleased with this alternative artwork -- it looks like a mysterious nineteenth century tome, which adds to the sense of Gothic mystery. And Poe wearing Dupin's green spectacles lends a touch of steam punk. (Or perhaps it is Dupin himself on the cover, given his uncanny likeness to Poe?) #EdgarAllanPoe #LondonMonster #CAugust

HURRAH, old girl. Put the kettle on. (Or so said Dickens's pet raven Grip.) Hurrah all the same for -- Today is the official release date of Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster, which is both exciting and nerve-racking, especially as I'm here in Australia and the book 'flies' first in the UK. Sending big thanks through the ether to my agent Oli Munson, his assistant Becky Brown, commissioning editor Jenny Parrott at Point Blank and all the other lovely people I have been w