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Incredibly, this headline is not fake news.

Even though I've had a whole year to absorb the shock and the divine majesty of all this, it still feels utterly surreal and amazing.

Yes, Imagine Entertainment, the Hollywood production company founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, have optioned my novel . They've made huge Ron movies like Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code and Frost/Nixon, as well as the likes of 8 Mile, Katy Perry: Part Of Me and the upcoming film adaptation...

Yesterday, I wrote the final line of my second novel, one year and one day after Orbit Books published The Last Days Of Jack Sparks.

There's still plenty of editing work to do on this book, but the damn thing exists, fifteen months after I started work. This has not been an easy journey, but books very rarely offer anything of the kind.

So!  The book is called Key Man.

Your front door key is not unique.

If a homicidal maniac walked from house to house for long enough, trying the s...

One of my favourite images of 2016. Thanks, Waterstones Nottingham!Well now, that was a weird year. Out in the world at large, so many terrible things happened that made you feel as though reality itself was being warped by some sadistic overlord.

In terms of worldwide events, 2016 was the worst year in living memory. In terms of my career as an author, however, it was the best.

Hello, cognitive dissonance. But if it's all the same to you, I'm going to focus solely on the professional stuff her...

Hello to your face!

My novel The Last Days Of Jack Sparks has somehow made the semi finals of the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards 2016. Which is astonishing, since this puts it alongside ludicrously stiff competition from books by the top drawer likes of Joe Hill, MR Carey and Paul Tremblay!

It would be amazing for Jack Sparks to reach the finals. So if you're willing to help, and genuinely believe the novel to be the most deserving in this year's Horror category, you can change my life with a couple o...

Photo courtesy Chad Dixon (@lapswood8)Hooray, I'll be at the tomorrow (Saturday Oct 29th) and will be doing Stuff as follows...

12 midday (Silver Theatre): a panel about horror and dark fantasy, alongside , and moderator

Hello! This article features no spoilers about The Walking Dead, except for speaking generally about how very unpleasant the show’s Season Seven premiere was. But you probably gathered that anyway.

The Walking Dead’s Season Seven premiere has stirred a tidal wave of online think pieces. Many of these ask whether the show has finally overstepped some kind of imaginary mark. Some of them downright state this as fact.

In Its Season Premiere, The Walking Dead’s Brutal Violence Finally Went Too Far

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Hey! Pull up a chair and listen to me interviewing Alistair Sparks, the brother of the late journalist and author Jack Sparks.

Since Jack's bookThe Last Days Of Jack Sparks was published, there's been much speculation and debate surrounding Alistair, who has attracted everything from admiration to scorn. So I wanted to sit down with him in a cafe and ask a few questions.

This interview is presented in two halves... and you very nearly didn't get to hear the second half at all, because Alistair...

In February 2015, I interviewed the mighty author at the British Science Fiction Association's monthly gathering. Ohhh, how I quizzed the man about his life, his career and his frankly astonishing collection of ancient Egyptian thigh bones. The whole affair looked very much like

Hello! This weekend, I'll be at Fantasycon By The Sea in Scarborough, along with a whole host of genre luminaries including Mike Carey, Joe Hill, Adam Nevill, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Kane, Mark Morris and James Smythe.

I'm looking forward to celebrating the launches of books by Mark Morris (two books, no less), Paul Kane (ditto), Adam Nevill (his new short story collection Some Will Not Sleep - download

Hang the flags! Bake the cake!The Last Days Of Jack Sparks is now available in the US and Canada as an actual physical hardback book. As I understand it, this is currently the only hardcover edition available anywhere in the world.

The novel is about an arrogant celebrity journalist who sets out to write a non-fiction book debunking the supernatural, then ends up dead. He may have got himself in trouble when he laughed during the exorcism of a teenage girl, that's all I'm saying...

Barnes & Nob...