Finally! A few months later than planned, but it’s been a weird period in the life of this particular author/illustrator, for reasons that I won’t go into yet. Anyway, here it is – my first (and by no means last) ebook novella: ‘The Vile Desire to Scream’, available to download for free.
Here’s the blurb:
‘If no relatives are involved,’ said Nate, ‘then somehow an enemy has infiltrated our home – one who is able to get past our guards, take Daisy without a struggle, and navigate the hazards of the house without detection. Which would make him a formidable opponent indeed, and an unknown quantity.
‘For Daisy’s sake, I hope that is not the case.’
‘Bloody right,’ Gerald sniffed. ‘With enemies like that, who needs relatives, eh?’
This is part promotional tool, part experiment and partly done just for the craic. It’s a short read, the kind you could finish in a lunchtime. The story is set between ‘Ancient Appetites’ and ‘The Wisdom of Dead Men’, but you don’t have to have read either to follow the storyline.
My technical department (ie. my brother) and I have tried to make it as universal as possible – there’s nothing more annoying than something being released as a file that only works on one kind of system, or for one kind of software. To make it as accessible as possible, there’s a pdf, an epub file and a mobipocket file to choose from. There are simple explanations for each on the download page to help you make your choice.
It’s been an interesting experience, particularly creating epub files for the first time, and I intend to do more of this in the future. I hope you choose to read this story, and if you do, I hope you enjoy it. If you do, tell your friends, tell people who aren’t your friends, tell strangers you meet on the street – tell the whole world and see if I care . . . ‘cos, well . . . I do.
