Month: September 2025

GD Wright: A Weird Way of Getting Published | Mark Stay’s Creative Differences Episode 13

GD Wright is the author of the bestselling AFTER THE STORM and INTO THE FIRE, and he’s genuinely one of the nicest guys in the business with an extraordinary tale to tell: he was a copper, then due to health issues had to retire aged 30, and if you know Gary at all you’ll know that he’s had a few challenges this year… but he’s come through and was an amazing guest on the livestream. He talks frankly his strange route to publication, creating a writing habit, how his work was optioned when he was self-published and much, much more…

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LINKS

GD Wright’s website

Love Never Dies

Alien: Earth 

Fisk

Ring the Bells 

Brett McKenzie

A huge thanks to Emily Stay for production assistance, to Kai Newton for the edit, and Dominic Currie for the jingle. 

Lucy Strange on the Creative Differences Livestream

Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author whose books feel like classic children’s literature, but are written in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Most recently she’s collaborated with artist Pam Smy on their spooky, funny new series Lockett & Wilde’s Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries!

Often inspired by folklore and fairy tales, Lucy combines historical settings with touches of magic and fantasy to create utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen…

And before becoming a professional writer, Lucy worked as an English teacher for fifteen years. Having also trained and worked as an actor, Lucy narrates her own audiobooks, winning the 2019 Audie Award for The Secret of Nightingale Wood.

I hope you can join us live on TUESDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 8pm BST.

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The Crow Folk is back in stock!

I sold out of The Crow Folk at a Ren Faire last weekend, but now it’s back in stock in my store. If you want signed copies of any of my books, pop along to the Woodville Village Bookshop…

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I sold out of THE CROW FOLK at last weekend’s ren Faire, but it’s now back in stock in my store. Get signed copies here… https://witchesofwoodville.com/the-village-bookshop/

♬ Waking The Witch (2018 Remaster) – Kate Bush

I Love Editing… Am I Weird?

I’m in the depths of edits of THE END OF GODS and I’m loving it… Does that make me a weirdo?

Support a little DREAD, DECAY & DOOM

A new Witches of Woodville-related short story “Elderflower Cordial” will be featured in this splendid anthology from the wonderful people at Stars and Sabers. It’s a crowdfunded project and you can get all kinds of excellent “swag” (it says here) in return for your support.
And to whet your appetite, I can reveal that the story features a character from The Corn Bride, so if one is hankering for more Woodville thrills, then this is where you will find it. Click on the image below to support the project…

The End of Gods: An Update and a Cover Reveal…

To begin with, can we all be upstanding to applaud the splendid work of Alejandro Colucci for the cover of The End of Gods…

And here’s the latest on the edit and a possible publication date-ish…

This weekend’s Comic Cons: Bournemouth & Peterborough

I’ll be selling and signing m’books this weekend. You can find me on Saturday 6th in Bournemouth, and on Sunday 7th I’ll be in Peterborough. Click on the images below for more details…

And for future dates, pop over to my diary and events page here.