New Horror Novel Out!

[tkingfisher]

The Twisted Ones is available now! Critics seem to like it! You can get it via Amazon or any of the other places books are sold, including bookstores and all that good stuff! (I'm next to Stephen King. Hadn't planned that when I picked the pen name...)

If you are in the UK, you gotta wait a bit longer--Titan UK bought the rights and will be releasing it on their own schedule. I'm sorry for the delay, it's sadly beyond my control. The next one is supposed to be simultaneous, though.

Comments

[graydon]

Woohoo, book!

Woot!

[kathmandu]

Congratulations!

I personally cannot read it, because I would have to stay up all night with the lights on, but I'm recommending it to everyone I know who does read horror.

Maybe I'll print up little reminder cards...

Re: Woot!

[tkingfisher]

Totally okay! I don't want anyone to feel bad--I will write LOTS of books!

[heron61]

It was excellent and exceedingly creepy.

[autopope]

I have found that with trans-Atlantic rights splits it is possible to persuade a British publisher to release simultaneously with a US publisher ... but you need a long enough lead time for the editors to nag each other into submission and agree a target date, and someone has to bang heads together to ensure they agree on the same title and the book only gets copy-edited and typeset once (usually one publisher buys the typeset files from the other and then re-flow them in InDesign).

Nightmare sauce is when you (the author) have to tackle two separate copy edits into different regional versions of English ... then two sets of page proofs, then the book surfaces with different titles on different launch dates and all your readers scream at you, personally, for making them buy two copies of the same book.

[tkingfisher]

In theory, the next book will be simultaneous, but we have like a year plus of lead time on that.

[catofalltrades]

It was most excellent and I am thoroughly spooked!

[dranon]

Finally got the chance to read it today, and it was delightfully creepy. No matter what happened, I had to read the next chapter to find out what happened.

Mouse's choice of radio stations and NPR's permanent pledge week was hilariously true to life.

The hoarding was also very true to life. All the little details, right down to having a room where things were just dumped inside the door because the room was full, were there. I sincerely hope you learned about hoarding through research and not by having a family member prone to it.

[tkingfisher]

I've seen a few things, but never had to do a full nightmare clean myself.

[dranon]

We could date the layers in his bedroom (from when he could still get into his room) by pages from tear-off calendars. It was like a thoughtfully dated archaeological dig, but with a distressing number of Polish jokes.

Fun times!

[richardf8]

The “right next to Stephen King” helped me find it easily at my local B&N.

[jennyaxe]

You made me go get the Arthur Machen book as well, because I had never heard of it before and it's kind of awesome in the way that much horror from its time is.

And the name "Cotgrave". Grave of cots. The place where little baby cradles die. I thought you'd made it up, until I got "The White People".

And the effigies remind me of "The Seventh Bride".

And did I mention that I loved the book? Because I loved the book!