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“Where do you get your ideas from, Thomas?”

I get asked that all the time. I guess most writers would say the same. So what’s the answer? Well, ideas come from all over the place. My first novel Maneater is about a werewolf called Laura Greenacre who wants to avenge the death of her clan. So there’s an idea: a revenge novel. About …

“Karen, bring me to the world. I will make you proud. I will show you the purity of hate. The clarity of pain. The glory of blood. The beauty of wounds. The rage of love.”

My new novella IRONBONES is out soon from CARRION PUBLISHING. It’s slasher fiction about a murderous, supernatural serial killer. Here’s the gist… Angry at rejection, would-be novelist Karen Davies one night excavates all of her fury and unleashes it on the page—creating a best-selling monster. And Ironbones is a huge hit with readers. But success …

A special piece of advice

Here’s one of the many awesome five-star reviews I’ve had for my book How To Write a Novel in 6 Months: It intrigued me; I wondered what the special piece of advice that helped this writer was. I like to think my little guide contains lots of useful information. Those who’ve read it tell me …

Where should I start?

I’ve had eight novels published, all of them by Snowbooks. I get asked a lot of questions about my writing—where I get my ideas from, being one, very common query. But another I’ve been asked frequently is: “In what order should I read your books, Thomas?” Well, here’s the order in which they were published: …

The Rules of Writing (there are two)

I have been teaching some creative writing sessions recently. The writers in the group are great; they have some wonderful ideas. Their WIPs (works-in-progress) are varied, from reality-based domestic dramas to high fantasy. It’s great to see. The majority of what I’m teaching comes from my book, How To Write a Novel in 6 Months. …

Read Chapter 1 of Judgment Day, the final part of The Prophet Wars

The fourth and final part of my Young Adult series “The Prophet Wars” will be published on KDP on September 22. Called “Judgment Day”, it brings to a close the story of Billy Kingdom, the boy who ca see the future, and Tawny Lang, the girl who can part the waves. I’ve been writing it …

The prophets are back…

Hello friends, readers, reviewers, writers, vampires, demons, ghosts… First, I should say happy new year. We’re well into it now, but this is my first email of 2020. Hope it’s going well for you so far. And if it’s not, I hope it gets better. Volume 3 of The Prophet Wars, my young adult dystopian …

The wonderful world of werewolves

An anthology of werewolf stories is published in January — and I’m very proud to say that one of my stories is featured. Editor and author Graeme Reynolds (High Moor) contacted me last year and asked me to contribute a tale to the collection. The criteria was that it had to be based on an …

The Prophet Wars continue…

Volume 2 of my young adult novel The Prophet Wars will be available as an ebook on October 31. Apt, eh? Halloween. It’s going to be downloadable in multiple formats. Kindle, epub, PDF, and will be available on Amazon, Smashwords, Draft2Digital, Barnes & Noble, iBooks… I could go on. You can pre-order your Kindle copy …