I’m one of the featured authors in the July 2025 edition of Uncaged Book Reviews, an online magazine promoting indie and small press authors. My interview with editor Cyrene Olson covers Blood Point, Blood River and the exciting future of the Nightmare Vacations stories. There’s also a bonus spotlight on my wonderful dog, Layla the […]
That nail-biting moment has arrived when early reviews come in for Blood Point…and it’s a solid thumbs-up all round! Goodreads rates Blood Point at 4.86 as it heads towards the ebook launch on June 23rd. This is Midsummer’s Eve, when the Kinnitty Pyramid opens and unleashes hell on Earth. The heatwave across the UK and […]
The print edition of Blood Point is now available in paperback and hardback for all you print-loving horror readers. Blood Point: An Irish Escape becomes a Midsummer Night’s terror A haunting tale of grief, love and the monstrous cost of second chances, Blood Point is the second of my Nightmare Vacations stories. With a heart-stopping […]
Blood Point is on the way to the printers, so it’s time to reveal how that dramatic cover emerged from my story of an Irish Nightmare Vacation. And what’s going on with that pine cone? Spoiler alert: gibbets and pine cones? Hmmm… You’ll have to read the full story to find out, but there are […]
Blood Point pre-orders are now open as the countdown begins to my second novel’s live date: Midsummer 2025. (FYI that’s June 23rd) Blood Point is a supernatural horror novel of Irish folklore, vengeful banshees, ancient curses and a father’s fight against a deadly legend. An Irish escape becomes a Midsummer Night’s terror in my second […]
Blood Point will be published in Midsummer 2025, a fitting date for a story set at the ancient Irish festival of Litha. I’d really hoped to release the second Nightmare Vacations novel in time for Midsummer 2024. That was a wildly over-ambitious underestimate of the time it would take to reach the end of the […]
August 1st marked the festival of Lughnasadh (loo-nasser if your mouth mangles those Irish phonemes). It’s the beginning of harvest season and a key date in Blood Point, my Irish Nightmare Vacations novel. Named after the pagan god Lugh, it’s another of those Irish festivals that sits between a solstice and an equinox. The big […]
Would you like to test drive the final drafts of Blood Point, my next Nightmare Vacations horror story? If so, register below to become a Beta Reader. Beta Readers are one of the last stops on the road from a story idea to a published novel. They’re a final chance to revise a book and […]
The weather might not agree yet*, but Lá Bealtaine is the beginning of summer in Ireland’s ancient Celtic calendar. It’s also the beginning of the countdown to launching a new horror story, Blood Point. Sign up to my newsletter for exclusive previews. Sandwiched between the spring equinox and summer solstice, Bealtaine, or “bright fire”, is […]
TripAdvisor’s top Dublin museums might include Guinness, whiskey, and Kilmainham Gaol, but no writer or lover of good stories should visit the city without a stop at the National Leprechaun Museum. Ireland’s storytelling tradition goes back to the dawn of Irish history, and the National Leprechaun Museum is a tribute to the nation’s wild oral […]