Announcement – New Book Coming!

I think anyone who knows me knows that I have a bit of a thing about mummies. You can keep your vampires and werewolves, if there’s a bandaged critter lurking somewhere – I can’t actually get away from them, either. If I go to a museum, I’ll always end up finding the mummies. I love them! I’ve posted a fair few mummy stories as part of my Friday Flash activity over the past few years, and now I’m pleased to say that I’ve managed to place a novella featuring mummies with a publisher!

The Necromancer’s Apprentice is my retelling of the fabled Sorceror’s Apprentice, only it replaces the sorceror with a necromancer, and the overly helpful brooms with blood-lusting mummies. It also features dog-headed men, a fight scene involving a scythe, and a pterodactyl. It’s partly set in the Underground City which has appeared in a few of my Friday Flashes (click here if you want another look) and partly in the City Above, where the hapless apprentice ends up working in the House of the Long Dead. I’m not overly sure if it’s horror, or dark fantasy, but I’m pitching it as somewhere between the two.

I’m really excited to announce that Dark Continents Publishing, who also published Nerine Dorman’s Inkarna and Rab Swannock Fulton’s Transformation, will be putting out The Necromancer’s Apprentice through their Darkness and Dismay division. My ace new editor, Nerine Dorman, reckons I’m the twisted version of JK Rowling. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you agree when it comes out!

In the meantime, expect more Underground City stories, and definitely more mummies…