Last year I was absolutely rubbish.

I published so little during that twelve months that I’m disgusted with myself. I can’t even give a good reason as to why it happened. I released only one book myself – the third book of the displaced, and a co-authored two other books with Michael Stephen Fuchs. Now, I’m not saying that I’m unhappy with what I did manage to write. I’m pleased with the third DotD book, and VERY pleased with the Arisen series so far, I’m just incredibly disappointed with myself for not finishing more.

I started and did not finish seven other books in 2012. They are all still sitting there waiting for me to go back to them, along with about two hundred others that I’ve accumulated over the years and also left unfinished, so I haven’t really lost a lot of time, but I made a decision at the beginning of last year that I would put out more books than ever, and didn’t achieve that. That needs to change this year.

Ironically enough, the amount of sales success I’ve had from what I did finish has been phenomenal. The Diary series continues to sell well, and Arisen book sales are way off the clock, having hit the best-seller lists and stayed there, and are STILL there.

So this year I’m going to get my head into gear.
This year we will see Arisen 3 (I’m just about to get rolling on that and Michael is already a leap ahead of me), and also at least book four of the Diary series, hopefully five and six as well. This depends on whether other books demand to be written first.

I also have a new novel to write, which may or may not be published by a traditional publisher. No more details here yet, but you’ll get to read it regardless.

I’m not going to be daft and put some prohibitive and over optimistic word count per day over my head, but I’m determined to get back to being prolific, as I was in 2011. No, I don’t think I can hit the same level I did that year, but damn it, I can try.

Arisen : Genesis by Michael Stephen Fuchs

In the dark heart of the Horn of Africa, our shadow wars rage.

But beneath the violence and terror, a bio-engineered serial killer lurks.
Come back in time with ARISEN and live through the beginning of the end of the world…

The Horn of Africa, place of various madness and horror – home to depraved warlords, Islamist militias, famine, drought… and regular outbreaks of killer viruses.

Tucked away in a high-tech Tactical Operations Center, inside an isolated safehouse in Somalia, sits Agency analyst Zack Altringham. He is Kenyan-born, Princeton-educated, badly burnt-out – and condemned by his language and cultural skills to a lifetime of fighting America’s shadow counter-terror wars. But a threat many times worse than any suicide bombing lurks in the corner of Zack’s tortured consciousness – just as it lurks out in the lawless bush of Somaliland. And when another mystery epidemic breaks out, Zack must find out if it is connected to a bio-terror plot he believed he thwarted years ago…

But, terrifyingly quickly, the epidemic reaches a tipping point and chaos descends – and Zack and his team (including two former Team Six SEALs) are trapped between the millstones of the sick and the dying on one side, and heavily armed militias on the other. Soon their “safe” house is in flames, and their only remaining option is to get in their up-armored SUV and try to escape the imploding gravity well of the city, to the safety of the American military base in Djibouti. But by then, will there be anywhere safe left on Earth to escape to?

Come back in time with the ARISEN prequel and live through the beginning of the end of the world. Nothing will ever look the same again.

Available on Amazon Select

Amazon USA – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AO76XI2/
Amazon UK – http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AO76XI2/

Book 3 of Diary of the Displaced, tentatively called “The Corridor”, is now with my fantastic new editor -
Jacqui Lewis aka LadyEditrice.co.uk
She did such a fantastic job on the Arisen series that I just had to ask her to work on my other books.
Hmm.
I hope she doesn’t think they are too weird and runs a mile…

Anyway!
Hopefully I’ll have the book back at the beginning of December and it should, with some luck, be ready for release mid December…ish.

It hasn’t been long since the first book was released, but book two of the Special Forces vs Zombies adventures is out!

Arisen Book Two – Mogadishu of the Dead

When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living.

And one international team of supremely elite special operators are humanity’s last best hope for survival. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are tasked with one last desperate operation.

They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world’s only remaining supercarrier and insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, all in search of a rumored vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink. But their op goes dangerously wrong from the start, with their team scattered to hell and back, and their target site a dry hole. Now they must fight their way on foot through a city of 3 million ravening dead guys, in search of an underground bunker that might hold the Last Man on Earth. But these undead will not be like any Zulus they have ever fought before – and they surround their new target in a writhing ring of death 30 feet high on all sides…

Available at -

Amazon UK - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009GX1LNW/
Amazon USA - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GX1LNW/

It’s been a while since I sent one of these out, but time for an announcement at last!
Over the last two months or so I’ve been working with the amazing writer Michael Stephen Fuchs, the writer of “The Manuscript“, “Pandora’s Sisters“, “Don’t shoot me in the ass and other stories” and of course the “Dboys” series – you can find him at www.michaelstephenfuchs.com.
What we ended up with was this…

A world fallen – under a plague of seven billion walking dead
A tiny island nation – the last refuge of the living
One team – of the world’s most elite special operators
The dead, these heroes, humanity’s last hope, all have…

ARISEN
Book One – Fortress Britain

When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living – with 50 million beleaguered survivors facing down a world of 7 billion animated corpses.

And when civilization fell, one international team of supremely elite special operators was being assembled for a nearly impossible mission, deployed out of the SAS barracks at Hereford. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are humanity’s last best hope for survival. Searching through the detritus of fallen Europe, scavenging pharmaceutical labs for clues to a vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink, now they are tasked with one last desperate operation.

They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world’s only remaining supercarrier, insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, and then fight their way on foot through a city of 3 million ravening dead guys. But these Zulus will not be like any zombies they have ever fought before…

This is the first in the series and is available at
Amazon UK – http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008TQ0T8A/
Amazon USA – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008TQ0T8A/
Also available for Amazon Select Customers