Arnopp Update: Where Are We Now?

With thanks to the late, great David Bowie for that subtitle, it's time to take stock of what's going on in Arnoppville in the year of our dark lord, 2016...

JACK SPARKS IS COMING!
March 3 sees the release of my first title for Orbit Books. The Last Days Of Jack Sparks finally reveals the lurid details behind the downfall and death of the notorious pop culture celebrity Jack Sparks.  Why did he decide to write a whole book debunking the supernatural?  Did his problems really begin after he mocked an exorcism?  And what's the story behind that creepy YouTube video he obsessed over?

This book answers all those questions and more.  If you've previously enjoyed my book, I would love it if you decided to pre-order The Last Days Of Jack Sparks in either Kindle, C-format paperback or audiobook. Pre-orders really help create a buzz around a book, inside and outside the publishing industry, so I'm reserving special love for early adopters (not that kind of special love; what do you think I am, eh? Some kind of whore? Don't answer that.)

Three things amazing people have said about this book:

Wow. Seriously hard to put down . . . Chilling and utterly immersive (M. R. Carey, author of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS)

This is The Omen for the social media age (Chris Brookmyre, author of the Jack Parlabane thrillers)

Wittier than the lovechild of Stephen Fry and Charlie Brooker; scarier than watching The Exorcist in an abandoned asylum. Fast, furious, original and most importantly, terrifying (Sarah Lotz, author of THE THREE)

Those quotes blow my tiny mind.

Read the Foreword and first chapter here!  Check out the Jack Sparks tribute site!

THE NEXT FREE SHORT STORY IS COMING TOO
On December 7, I released the first in a new series of standalone short stories.  If you missed out on Auto Rewind, you can still pick it up here.   The next story, as yet untitled, will be released on February 7 - although, as before, when you back me at crowdfunding site Patreon, you'll get it a week early, along with various other perks.  Hold tight!

101 WRITING FEARS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM
I'm approaching the end of three years of work on this non-fiction book, whose title is hopefully self explanatory. Check out the first excerpt from it here, about writers and dyslexia, then pre-order it at half price! 

WRITING THE SECOND NOVEL
Yes, Orbit signed me up for two books, so it would only be fair to write the second one this year. I'm starting that one now and it has a title yet to be revealed. The Last Days Of Jack Sparks took me 18 months to write but this will be less. As a result, I've been doing more pre-planning than I usually might. Which I think is a good habit to force yourself into.

BITS AND PIECES

• Genre Reader recently ran an interview with me, which you can read here. 
• I was interviewed for the metal-themed podcast Talking Bollocks, so that should air quite soon.  
• I wrote a Slayer/Anthrax live review in the current issue of Metal Hammer, with Slipknot on the cover.  I do like to keep my hand in with the old journalism...
• With that in mind, I'm also working on a couple of pieces about dear departed rock god Lemmy of Motorhead, for the next issue of Metal Hammer. 

That's it for now.  You may go about your day, but please do try not to stalk any more swans.  You're a proper nuisance to those majestic creatures.  Oh yes, I've seen you.

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