A question I often ask myself is, when am I going to write a vampire story?

I know it's my destiny 🦇

Friends and Readers,

I hope you are managing to keep spirits up somehow during the current sensory onslaught that is life right now.

Travel has been a balm to me recently. Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, has long been a place that has felt like home, and I was lucky enough to have a few days away with my family last week.

A photo from my first visit back in 2010 and one from last week.

• Sunglasses ✔

• Horror themed t-shirt ✔

• Goofy happy grin ✔

Despite taking a handful of book away to read, I couldn’t help but buy two whilst I was there. The first Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, has absolutely bowled me over. It feels so modern in style, but it was published in 1872. Talk about inspirational. This vampire story has got me in a fever to write my own.

The second, not unrelated to my location, or Carmilla, was yet another copy of Dracula. Do I really need another copy? No. Do I want a beautiful illustrated copy? Yes. The Crow Emporium Press Edition of Dracula came home with me. Visit The Crow Emporium and see why I couldn't resist this book.

In other news, I’m reading the physical paperback proof of The Dark Beneath Us, my next novel.

Slowly, ever so carefully, I’m edging towards releasing this book!

If you’ve somehow missed it, this new book is the prequel to Earthly Bodies. So Earthly Bodies needed a new cover to match.

I talk about this over here if you are curious. Instagram video.

I hope what readers get from these stories is that everything *is* connected.

We, as bodies, are residents on this planet. But we are wildly connected to it too. Unfortunately, that connection has become othered and gnarly. We see ourselves as separate from this Earth, rather than of this Earth.

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