A straightforward, step-by-step guide for writers wanting to edit their completed manuscript, but unsure how to go about it.Written by a former lawyer, who has edited eight of his own novels, this no-nonsense guide will help writers create the best version they can of their work before having it professionally edited, or querying agents and publishers, or self-publishing.

A collection of three dark novellas that delve into the nature of memory, madness and the afterlife.The Goldfish Syndrome: a mystery takes a sinister turn—some secrets are best left undiscovered…Moths: when the line between reality and fantasy grows blurred, tragedy beckons.Returned: a soul dragged from the afterlife, an ancient secret and a race against time to thwart evil.

A post-viral planet. Annihilation approaches.Tom Evans and Ceri Lewis occupy a silent new world. Little more than a million people survived the Cleansing. They are spread out, weak, compelled by a force beyond their comprehension to remain where they are. Humankind teeters on the brink, its fate in the hands of the few who can resist the power that seeks to control them. But resistance may be futile.In the midst of deathly calm, a new threat arises, one tha...

An ordinary elevator. An ordinary morning.Matt steps into the elevator, wanting only to reach his workspace, and coffee, on the Sixth Floor. Three more people enter and the elevator ascends. Another dreary day in the office, they think. Until the door slides open…What greets Matt drives all thoughts of coffee from his mind, for he isn’t faced with the drab office he is expecting, but a sun-drenched land of exotic scents. And danger.Thus begins a day...

Unnatural calm. A silent storm gathers. Extinction beckons.Survivors from mainland Europe and North America converge on Britain. Weary, confused, all come seeking answers; many come spoiling for a fight. What began with the Cleansing, and was hastened by the Beacon, nears fruition. Time is running out, and human numbers are too few to win the last battle alone. Unless help can be found from the unlikeliest of allies, failure is assured.Humankind faces the f...

Apocalypse unleashed. Swift and deadly. Merciless.Seven billion people inhabit this planet in blissful ignorance of imminent annihilation. Destruction comes, not from meteors or nuclear holocaust, but from a source no one even knows exists. The architects of doom have long moved among us, hidden in plain sight, waiting for the signal to trigger our extinction.A handful of survivors—traumatised, bewildered—must come to terms with the new reality. And quickly...

When war ends, terror begins.A fist fight that reverberates down the years. A family devastated by war. A flight from despair.John Andrews leaves industrial Newcastle for a remote village in post-war Cornwall. A village of reclusive inhabitants, where the birds don’t sing. A village haunted by its past that intrudes upon the present.He falls in love, but it is overshadowed by a series of increasingly terrifying events. He encounters members of a tra...

Christmas needn't only be about good cheer . . .Four festive tales of the supernatural, apocalyptic and blood-sucking variety—an antidote for anyone who occasionally finds Christmas overly sentimental or commercialised and likes to escape to somewhere darker.Featuring a bonus story from the Earth Haven trilogy.

Paradise isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.Unlucky in love, unlucky in life, Quirke yearns for something more. That indefinable, elusive something.In his role as a prison counsellor he meets Seff, an enigmatic convict who hints at an earthly Paradise, a place where Quirke may find his heart’s desire. When fate and an embittered co-worker conspire to lose Quirke his job, he sets off with his best friend to follow Seff’s vague directions.Concealed by mo...

A post-viral planet. Annihilation approaches.Tom Evans and Ceri Lewis occupy a silent new world. Little more than a million people survived the Cleansing. They are spread out, weak, compelled by a force beyond their comprehension to remain where they are. Humankind teeters on the brink, its fate in the hands of the few who can resist the power that seeks to control them. But resistance may be futile.In the midst of deathly calm, a new threat arises, one tha...

Unnatural calm. A silent storm gathers. Extinction beckons.Survivors from mainland Europe and North America converge on Britain. Weary, confused, all come seeking answers; many come spoiling for a fight.What began with the Cleansing, and was hastened by the Beacon, nears fruition. Time is running out, and human numbers are too few to win the last battle alone. Unless help can be found from the unlikeliest of allies, failure is assured.Humankind face...

An eerie calm. Chaos lurks.A land inhabited by people from distant places and times. A land of meadow and forest, where to leave the trail is to court death. A land where the Scourgers roam.In an apparently selfless act to save their lives and perform the task set by the Lord of the Dance, Jack has abandoned Matt, Kim and Tara on the near shore. But his motives are not noble.What he discovers on the far shore changes all: it is not merely his own an...