I’m thrilled to announce that the limited edition hardcover edition of The Invasion will be published by the wonderful Thunderstorm Books. I’m excited to be working with them again, and couldn’t be happier with the cover artwork, which was done by Alex McVey.
More information about the limited edition can be found here. If you’re interested in securing a copy, best get in quick, as numbers are extremely limited.
Here’s the cover for the upcoming US release of The Awakening. Design by Kealan Patrick Burke.
I couldn’t be happier to announce that my coming-of-age/voodoo novel, The Awakening, is set for a re-release later in the year. The novel was first published in limited edition hardcover by Tasmaniac Publications in 2012, followed by an Australian paperback/digital release by LegumeMan Books. Now, the good people at Bloodshot Books will be releasing the first US edition, to be published in both paperback and digital formats. To find out more, click here:
As is often the case with writing, sometimes you can go for months, even years, without a single release. Then, like blood from a knife wound to the jugular vein, they can come pouring out in one great spurt.
Over the past few weeks, (after a drought of almost two years) I’m pleased to report I have three new works/editions that have been released. They are:
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF JACK THE RIPPER STORIES. This anthology of Ripper tales contains my story, ‘A Child of the Darkness’. The UK paperback and eBooks editions (Robinson) is now available: Little, Brown. The US eBook is available now (Running Press) with the paperback to be released December 22nd: Amazon
BLURRING THE LINE. A new anthology of horror and dark fantasy stories that contains my story, ‘With These Hands’. Published by Cohesion Press. The eBook edition is available now, with the paperback to follow: Amazon
DER SCHMERZ DES ERWACHENS (THE PAIN OF AWAKENING). The German edition of my novel, THE AWAKENING. Published by Festa Verlag in a special collector’s edition, limited to 666 copies.
I was recently interviewed by writer and journalist Andrew Masterson about the Slender Man case specifically, and horror in general. The article has just been published in The Age. You can find the article here:
I’m excited (and relieved!) to say that I’ve finally finished the last round of edits, and so the new novel is complete! Titled The Invasion, it’s a very dark thriller concerning a home invasion. Loosely based on the Manson murders, and drawing from my own fear/morbid fascination with home invasion crimes, it’s the first in a planned home invasion series, and goes to some very dark places indeed in telling the story of one terrifying night when a modern-day cult break into the house of a bestselling novelist and proceed to terrorize the occupants. As a brutally realistic story, and one heavily influenced by real life crime, it’s similar in tone to The Mother, and should appeal to fans of that novel.
Watch this space for more information regarding the novel.
Aaron Sterns and myself will be at Dymocks, Melbourne, on the 14th of March, signing copies of the Wolf Creek prequel novels. It should be a great evening, so we’d love to see you there. Details of the event can be found here.
To celebrate the release of Penguin Book’s Wolf Creek prequel novels, Notions Unlimited Bookshop is hosting an official launch party. Come and meet writers Aaron Sterns and Brett McBean, get your copies of Origins and Desolation Game signed, down some libations and mingle with other Mick Taylor fans. Date: February 1st 2014, starting at 4pm. For more information about the event, click here. Hope to see you there!
*UPDATE: The five winners have been decided, so the competition has ended. Thanks to all who played and congratulations to the five winners! For the record, my all-time favourite Aussie horror movie is: LONG WEEKEND (1978).
To help celebrate the release of the Wolf Creek novels, I’m giving away five signed copies of the second installment, Desolation Game.
As Wolf Creek is one of Australia’s greatest horror movies, I thought I’d make the competition Oz Horror related. All you have to do is guess my all-time favourite Australian horror movie (note: Wolf Creek is out of the running as an answer, for obvious reasons). The first five correct guesses each win a signed copy of Desolation Game: Wolf Creek Book 2.
Send your guesses to either my email address (brettmcbean@hotmail.com) or a PM on Facebook. Happy guessing!
The Awakening
The Invasion
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories
Blurring the Line
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