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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)

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!

Well, it's true... my new YA thriller Vicious Rumer is OUT NOW from Unbound! Just look at that hot pink cover. I could swear it's looking right at us.

This book was an absolute blast to write and I'm really proud of it. I tried to write something lean, mean and unpredictable – I guess time will tell if I cracked it!

Please do add it to your Goodreads list here and let me know what you think!

And why not tweet or Facebook about it to help spread the Rumer? Be sure to @JoshWinning so I can retweet you!

Here's what some people have been saying about Rumer's story so far...

‘Violent but whip-smart… This thrill-ride will delight and enthral’ – Heat

‘It’ll keep you up all night’ – Closer

‘An exhilarating read’ – SFX

‘Bloody good and at times just plain bloody’ –Teen Reads

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!