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Treat yourself to a scary vampire read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This month Crimson Siege is available for just 99p/99 cents. Don’t miss out – click HERE to get your copy and start the adventure.

You’ll have to be quick, but from today until Saturday April 22nd The Lazarus Child, third book in the Blood Riders vampire hunter series is up on limited FREE promotion. Don’t miss out. To secure your copy, simply click HERE to be taken to the Amazon sales page.

I’m thrilled to announce that my VIP Readers Club newsletter has switched from monthly to weekly installments. It’s now coming out every Thursday. That means you don’t need to wait to enjoy updates, exclusive behind the scenes peeks at the stories and characters filling my latest books, recommendations on great TV programmes and films, plus profiles on other exciting horror writers.Increasing the regularity of my newsletter gives me the chance to share more secrets of my writing methods and inspirations, where I get my plot ideas and what I’ve got planned for expanding my two successful Gothic horror series in unexpected and thrilling ways. It also allows me to sprinkle all that content with fun facts about weird events in history, folk tales and superstitions, and the lives of your favourite scary actors and directors.If you are already a member you don’t have to do a thing. (Except check your inbox each Thursday.)If you aren’t a member (and why aren’t you!) you don’t need to worry about missing out on all the fun. You can join by clicking HERE. It’s free and you can unsubscribe at any time.As a thank you for signing up, you’ll receive a complimentary copy of Malice Through The Looking Glass , a collection of short stories guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine.

I’ve always wanted to write a chilling nosferatu series, pitting mankind against the most alluring, mysterious and deadly monsters to ever walk the Earth. I’ve been obsessed by vampires since sneaking out of school to watch Hammer Horror films at my local fleapit.But when it came to actually planning the first of my Blood Riders books I came to a startling realisation.  Vampires had been – if you’ll pardon the pun – done to death.  A tidal wave of self-published horror novels had flooded the market with fang-filled fiends, so many that the bloodsuckers seemed hackneyed and dull.Added to that, there was huge confusion about what a vampire was. Depending on who you spoke to, they wore tight leather cat suits and fired machine guns, acted like consumptive Victorian poets –  all lace shirts and languor – or hung around with teenagers and twinkled.My mission was to make these creatures of the night genuinely scary again – and original, offering elements and twists that would surprise and intrigue. So I tackled the problem from two directions. Firstly, a back to basics make-over.My monsters were going to be… well, monstrous – vicious, cold, amoral predators with supernatural speed, strength and intelligence. They’d view humans as playthings to satisfy ALL their appetites. And to up the ante, they’d be able to communicate  telepathically over short distances.These would not be the kind of creatures to give you a playful nip on the neck, they’d rip your entire throat out in a single visceral gulp and go on to devour half your face.Secondly, I wanted them to have a new context, a new environment in which to hunt and slay, so I made my 19th century Transylvania  a mirror of the American wild west – lawless, violent, desolate and unpredictable. A decade on from a war between mortals and monsters, the vanquished aristocratic vampire families are holed up on reservations. To stray from their safe havens makes them fair game for bounty hunters.Crimson Siege charts the horrifying consequences when the favourite son of the feared Modjeski vampire house is kidnapped and held in a small town jail. His kin invade the town but rescuing their leader leads to death, terror and destruction for both sides,  as the small community is defended by the only man vampire-kind has good reason to fear…I hope I’ve injected a dose of newness and awe into the genre. My fingers are crossed horror fans will think so too.This post originally appeared on the Books ‘n’ All website as part of the launch blog tour.

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Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrowIf you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature—could one dream of anything more?

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During the rest of that day there was no other adventure to mar the peace of their journey. Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing. This made the Tin Woodman very unhappy, for he was always careful not to hurt any living creature; and as he walked along he wept several tears of sorrow and regret. These tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted. When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together. He became greatly frightened at this and made many motions to Dorothy to relieve him, but she could not understand. The Lion was also puzzled to know what was wrong. But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy’s basket and oiled the Woodman’s jaws, so that after a few moments he could talk as well as before.

“This will serve me a lesson,” said he, “to look where I step. For if I should kill another bug or beetle I should surely cry again, and crying rusts my jaws so that I cannot speak.”

Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

“You people with hearts,” he said, “have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn’t mind so much.”

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