Out Now!

Dark Fire was my first publication, and you can imagine my excitement when the contract came through from Red Sage. It did though have an interesting genesis. Dark Fire, a novella at 40k words, began as a piece of speculative fiction centred around past life regression and played with the rich language of the C17th. The problem was, I couldn’t find a publisher. Then a friend suggested it needed sex, her exact words being ‘sex it up a bit’. Well, in for a penny, in for a pound and so I followed her advice, inserting four or five highly erotic sex scenes. And Red Sage, which specialised in erotica for the American market, snapped it up. Success—but with a drawback; being a greenhorn, I signed a contract that gave them full rights in perpetuity. I’d lost ownership of my story. 

But now it's back!

In Tales From the Murenger II

I remember doing a small dance, not a pretty sight, when some six years later Red Sage returned the rights to their various authors, so allowing me to republish Dark Fire. What else can I say about it? The novella begins in C13th France and ends up in Llanthewy Road, Newport. Dark Fire, for a time out of print, and now back in all its glory. ‘A legend in its time’ as us marketing men say. 

The other four stories: Yellow Window, Raw, Your Mother Will Come to You, and Serpent dreaming involve psychopaths, body horror, mad men and serpents. All are based in or around Newport, the latter albeit tenuously.

At £3 for the eBook and £6 for the paper back – one pint or two pints respectively – it’s a bargain I tell you!.