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Really excited to announce that after being out for almost two months, Sentinel has become an Amazon bestseller!

Read all about it over at the Sentinel Trilogy website here: http://bit.ly/13fm6Ua

Thanks everybody who downloaded and has supported the book so far, I owe many people many drinks.

This blog post originally appeared on the Sentinel Trilogy website: http://bit.ly/13m1nOt

Is there a word out there more boring than ‘routine’?

Admit it; there was a part of you that took one look at the title of this post and promptly fell into a coma, wasn’t there? Routine means hoovering the stairs, cramming into a tin can to travel to work and brushing your teeth twice a day (more if you love coffee). It’s painfully dull, and, frankly, we shouldn’t have to do it.

Yet this week I’ve been pretzelling myself into all sorts of magnificent shapes attempting to establish something called a writing routine. (Oh, the glamour.) Why? Because I’m told by various internet strangers (and many other non-internet strangers) that routine is pivotal to writing.

‘It gets the juices flowing!’ they holler. ‘Writing’s like a muscle – use it or loose it!’

Hence my daily trek to a local supermarket café that’s located conveniently near to the office I’m currently freelancing at. Yes, it resembles God’s waiting room and yes, the all-day breakfast looks like something you’d throw in a trough, but something quite miraculous has happened on these lunchtime jaunts.

I’ve started writing. In fact, I can’t stop. I sit down, plug into my iPod, and for 40 blissful minutes I re-enter the world of the Sentinels.

I’m currently hacking away at book two of the Sentinel trilogy (Ruins). There was a period of inactivity that came with releasing and promoting the first book, and the thrill of having people actually read my stuff.

With Sentinel now having enjoyed a little bit of success (read more about that here), I’m officially back in the swing of writing, and I’m loving it. Ideas are firing, characters are growing, and the book’s finally – finally! – taking shape in front of my eyes.

Not only that, but lugging my laptop across London every day is giving me a great cardio workout (even if the other commuters have made a few grumbles about the space-hogging backpack).

So, alright, those goodie-two-shoes routine-lovers might have it right after all. There might actually be something to this routine thing. For now, I’m a convert…

Peridot Press has released Sentinel in paperback and eBook today!

Buy your copy through the Peridot website and receive a goodies-stuffed fan pack that includes postcards, author notes and a poster. Just head here: http://www.peridot.co.uk/bookshop

Or if eBooks are more your thing, head over to Amazon to download direct to your Kindle.

Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1jAdb6t & Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1hEwPtE

And as always, if you like the book, please do spread the word!

Happy nightmares!

The Press Association have reviewed Sentinel! Check out what they thought below…

Just weeks before he turns 16, Nicholas Hallow is orphaned when his parents die in a bizarre train crash. They’d left him at home in Cambridge in the care of bubbly neighbour Tabatha, but hadn’t told him where they were going. In their absence, Nicholas finds a hidden room containing vast tomes of Sentinel Chronicles and a birthday gift from his parents. Sam, an elderly friend of the Hallows, is tasked with telling Nicholas what has happened to his folks and takes him through unseasonal snow to the remote country mansion home of his ‘godmother’.

On the way, Nicholas has a strange premonition moments before their decrepit bus is stormed by a beautiful, scarlet-clad woman intent on murder. Nicholas begs Sam to explain his parents’ secret life, but it falls to his strangely youthful godmother Jessica, to reveal that he himself is a Sentinel, a “supernatural demon hunter”.

Written poetically (“An angry black cloud was unfurling across the afternoon sun like a colossal inkblot”), with carefully-drawn characters, this is an extremely promising YA debut by a young author. 8/10

(Review by Kate Whiting)

To celebrate finishing the second draft of Ruins, book two of The Sentinel Trilogy, I've posted a blog with a few juicy spoilers and a discussion of the terrifying Tinker Zone.

Check it out at the Sentinel Trilogy website here.

I'm really excited to reveal the cover for Ruins, book two in the Sentinel Trilogy. It's already been posted up to the Ruins Goodreads page here: Ruins

Be sure to check it out and add it to your reading list!

Ruins is published by Peridot Press on 18 May 2015.

We can't believe the day is here at last, but it's true – Ruins is finally out! We're really proud of it – it's bigger, scarier and even weirder than Sentinel (you better believe it), and introduces a load of exciting new characters while throwing Nicholas, Sam and Isabel into even more terrifying adventures. Can they find the girl who holds the key to their fate? You'll have to crack that spine to find out!

You can get your copy of Ruins at a number of retailers, including Amazon UK, Amazon US and the Peridot Press website.

And make sure you add it to your Goodreads list here!

And don't forget you can read more about the book over at the Sentinel Trilogy HQ. The Ruins page includes a Q&A with author Joshua Winning, and we're working on even more exciting exclusives that take you deeper into the world of the Sentinels – and those spooky Dark Prophets.

But what are you waiting for? Go grab your copy of Ruins and be sure to let us know what you think.

And we'd love if you would Tweet and Facebook about it. Share the Sentinel love with everybody who knows that dark fantasy is the best thing ever. Because obviously it is.

"I've killed more people than I can count, but I never meant to"

Hey everybody. Exciting news! My new book, a YA crime thriller called KILLING RUMER , is available over at Unbound! The way Unbound works is that when you pre-order your copy of the book, you help get it published - and you get your name in the book as a thank you!

What is KILLING RUMER ? Well it's about a teenage girl thrown into a world of gangsters and the occult. It's sort of like Jessica Jones meets Lisbeth Salander, with a little bit of Nancy from The Craft thrown in there. V gritty and attitude-y, with some pseudo-supernatural stuff that could all be in the mind of our heroine, or could be for real...

Please check it out here: http://unbound.com/books/killing-rumer

Thank you!

Hey everybody! I hope you're all having a fun 2018.

Earlier this year, I promised some exciting things in the Sentinel camp, and today I'm thrilled to reveal that  Witchpin , a new Sentinel novella, is now available on Amazon!

Set before the events of the Sentinel Trilogy, Witchpin dives into the past to reveal the secrets of Jessica Bell and Isabel Hallow. Ever wondered how they met? All will be revealed!

You can head over to the Witchpin page here on the ST website to read more about the book (including a Q&A with yours truly) or, if you can't wait any longer to get your hands on the book, head over to Amazon UK or Amazon US to grab your copy.

And be sure to leave a star rating and/or short review on Amazon and Goodreads when you're done.

Thank you and remember, the Sentinels are always watching.

Phew, I don't know about you, but I'm feeling the heat. It's pretty apocalyptic out there at the moment, which is sort of fitting because GUESS WHAT – Splinter is out today!

It's been sort of an epic journey since Sentinel was published in 2014, but the trilogy is finally complete, and I'm allowing myself a quiet little moment of pride that I made it over the finishing line. Splinter, hopefully, is the best in the trilogy – I tried to deliver a huge conclusion that doesn't skimp on the emotion.

But what are you still here for?! Get yourself over to Amazon and grab a copy.

ALSO, if you've not read the trilogy yet, or if you have but love a bargain, Sentinel and Ruins are both just 99p on Kindle for the whole of July! Be sure to let everybody know.

Amazon UK
Amazon US

Thanks so much for coming on this journey with me, and I can't wait to hear what you make of Splinter!