So, this is fun.

A couple of weeks ago, I got a note from Tony Jones, the Senior Librarian at Emanuel School, London, about WHO HAUNTS YOU. He’d read it, enjoyed it, and bought a copy for the school, saying in a later e-mail he was going to test it on “my keener/strong readers and see how they take it.” He also mentioned that he reviews YA horror for the Scottish horror site, The Ginger Nuts of Horror, would be reviewing it there, and that it was in the running for their Best of the Year list.

And, well, it made it in - yay!.

And not just in, but alongside such cool and terrifying and badass books as:

Kristy Acevedo's THE WARNING
Linda Cheng's GORGEOUS GRUESOME FACES
Darcy Coates's WHERE HE CAN'T FIND YOU (hell yeah, Darcy Coates!)
Katya De Becerra's WHEN GHOSTS CALL US HOME
Gigi Griffis's THE WICKED UNSEEN
Jessica Lewis's MONSTROUS
Lisa Richardson's CHANNEL FEAR
Rebecca Schaeffer's CITY OF NIGHTMARES
Deidre Sullivan's WISE CREATURES
Teri Terry's SCARE ME

I mean, that's a helluva list full of heavy hitters. To say I'm thrilled to be included is an understatement (especially being on an indie horror label next to all the big guns like Delacorte, Macmillan, and EMILY ETERNAL'S UK home of Hodder).

As I've mentioned elsewhere, one of the best parts of WHY's release have been the notes I've gotten from teachers and librarians telling me that they dug the book and have added it to their classroom or school libraries. That's the highest praise I could imagine. As the son of an English teacher, as a kid who grew up hiding out in school libraries (seriously, through grad school - hell, I still write in libraries to this day), there's no better way of getting books into the hands of the readers I had in mind when I wrote WHY.

If you click the link above, you can read Tony's words yourself (fine, fine, here's another link to it - twist my arm), but there was one other bit that rang out to me:

"Pulling in at around 150 pages it is perfect for teens who do not like long books..."

Another reason I was glad to be with an indie publisher that let me come out with a shorter piece. Viva, Off Limits Press and my amazing editor/publisher, Waylon Jordan! So, if you're a student at Emanuel School, Battersea, London, look for a copy of WHY near you.



All right, a second quick thing - I love Locus Magazine. It's been around forever, it covers EVERYTHING, and you don't get to be a 30-TIME Hugo Award winning publication for nothing. I've always wanted to get something reviewed in their pages. This finally came to pass with WHY.

And, phew, they dug it.

Also yes, I have like six copies of that issue now.

You can read their full review, by contributing editor, Colleen Mondor, is ONLINE HERE

A sample:

"Ultimately, Who Haunts You has an enormously compelling protagonist in a narrative that escalates tension with every page and Wheaton keeps read­ers on the edge of their seats as the novel careens to its startling, and satisfying, conclusion..."

All of that to say, if you haven't picked up WHO HAUNTS YOU based on my own desperate banging on the past two months, this blog post serves to provide the viewpoint of two others so if you're feeling it, here's a purchase link to WHY.