Updates

Hi Mo,

I doubt you'll remember me, but I was the 'man in the hat' at the Altricham signing last year and you very kindly gave me advice regarding my own writing. Well, here's the update I promised you: despite things not quite working out for me in the traditional manner, I'm pleased to tell you I am to have a collection of my short stories published by a small press publisher (Screaming Dreams) in 2011. They will be called: Witterings of an Unshackled Dogsbody. Not sure if you'll ever see it on the bookshop shelves (if only...) but I wanted to thank you for telling me to stick at it.

It might not be my novel (yet!) but a result is a result.

And wanted to let you know that I thought Ritual contained some of your best work yet. The research you put into the plot was simply stunning. Loved it so much that I nominated it for the British Fantasy Society Awards in the Best [dark] Novel Category! It might not have won (Graham Joyce walked away with the prize) but such a deliciously claustrophobic novel would have been a worthy winner.