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nter s game released and the sound of the dark gets reviewed at strange horizons two things of note happened this week one is the release of my new novel hunter s game this is my first tie in novel set in the universe of the sniper elite video game set in the dying days of the american civil war it centres on hunter a young but battle scarred union army sniper on a mission to stop a trainload of weapons that could change the course of the conflict a mission that also becomes deeply personal as the train is under the command of colonel grauermann her former co and mentor before he defected to the confederacy leaving hunter to die it s a short sweet novel about 50 000 words packed with tension and action and i hope as dark and twisty as you d hope for from me i m proud of it anyway you can buy it here the second thing is a new review of the sound of the dark my third novel under my daniel church byline from shannon fay over at strange horizons some of the descriptions of what cally experiences are so vivid and awful they actually made me shudder the turn the book takes is all the more thrilling for how out of left field it is which is why i m trying to be as vague as possible here to protect the premise it s also a rare case where the story doesn t deflate once all is revealed here the horror is so well done that it can make the reader wonder if they have been cursed whether being exposed even secondhand to the tapes has inflicted on them the same contagion with which the characters are plagued i d highly recommend it shannon concludes and who am i to argue with a reviewer who clear has such good taste you can read her review here see you soon and thanks as always for your awesome support simon x posted by simon at saturday june 06 2026 no comments labels angry robot daniel church hunter s game rebellion sniper elite strange horizons the sound of the dark friday 29 may 2026 cancellation of launch at write blend due to circumstances beyond our control the planned launch for hunter s game at write blend bookshop next friday 5th june has been cancelled just in case you d been thinking of going didn t want anyone to have a wasted journey big thanks to bob stone for offering to make his premises available nonetheless i know richard osman was begging for that slot hunter s game is still being released on 4th june and can be preordered here posted by simon at friday may 29 2026 no comments wednesday 13 may 2026 hunter s game last year i had a lot of false starts and dead ends in the novel writing game but i did manage to finish one book it was a new departure for me my first tie in novel written for rebellion s sniper elite worlds series and in some ways it was just what the doctor ordered never underestimate the power of a cash advance with the balance payable on delivery to motivate you into completing a story or finding one you want to tell in a submission brief it also got me out of my comfort zone to tackle a type of story i wouldn t normally write it s called hunter s game and is set in the last days of the american civil war originally rebellion were talking about bringing it out in 2027 normally there s a very tight timescale on tie in stuff which is why they tend to look for authors who can turn stuff around quickly but at a guess with this being my first time they wanted to leave plenty of room to fix things if i handed in a complete mess i guess i didn t anyway because it comes out next month hunter s game will be released on 4 th june and for those of you based in north west england there will be a book launch at write blend in waterloo liverpool on friday 5 th june who will win hunter s game 1865 texas the american civil war is over but a final pocket of defiance remains despite the recent surrender of general lee a secret plan is hatched for the texan insurgents to receive a last shipment of deadly munitions that could spell ruin for the union forces facing them major sparanero of the union uses one of his undercover agents to discover that the weapons are being sent by train there will only be one chance to prevent the munitions being put into the field as the train crosses the fragile bridge over tophet gorge before his capture the undercover agent sets a bomb beneath the train and marks it for a sharpshooter hunter a disillusioned deserter is the only one skilled enough to make that shot bribed by sparanero to return one final time hunter is charged with destroying the train but an enemy colonel with whom hunter has history discovers the mission and so begins a deadly game of hide and seek posted by simon at wednesday may 13 2026 no comments labels new novel rebellion sniper elite monday 23 march 2026 a belated hornblowing as regular readers of this blog both of them will know each december i usually post a round up of the work i ve had published for the first time that year partly so i can pop my head up and take a look at what has been achieved and yes to show what work of mine is eligible for any awards that are going anyway for various reasons i wasn t in a great place at the back end of last year so i didn t get round to doing such a post so here belatedly it is now novels the sound of the dark as by daniel church angry robot books short stories the witch of november in nightmare abbey 8 ed tom english the last train in nightmare abbey 9 ed tom english polodski s bride in the joining ed jacob steven mohr nightwatch as by daniel church in king s river life magazine read free here my soul to keep on patreon read free here i wrote one novel last year my first tie in book in fact which i think is slated for 2027 details will be made available in due course i started and abandoned various novel length projects this year will be hopefully be the year of finishing some posted by simon at monday march 23 2026 no comments labels angry robot daniel church king s river life magazine nightmare abbey patreon the joining the sound of the dark wednesday 12 november 2025 interview stewart hotston talks project hanuman stewart hotston in his own words i m a short and long fiction writer repped by john baker at bell lomax moreton i am also one of the co owners of flow state games which runs among other games curious pastimes one of the uk s biggest fest larps with c 1500 players at our main events i spend a lot of time writing for that and it s one of my joys in life i believe that anyone who s played video games or d d would love larp my stories are about odd situations that are bigger than the people in them they re typically sci fi fantasy and often quite weird they re about changing the world and realising that we can all have a part in that my non fiction tends to be about these very same subjects stewart s very kindly agreed to talk to me about his new novel project hanuman which was released yesterday by angry robot read on 1 so what s new from you project hanuman it s a new space opera but also a retelling of how hanuman lost his powers it s set within a utopian civilisation called the arcology who span much of the galaxy but live mostly online it s not too much of a spoiler welcome to chapter 1 to say they get destroyed at the beginning and the rest of the story is about a group of survivors trying to wrestle with what s happened 2 how did it come about i ve been wanting to write a space opera for a long time but i ve never quite figured out the story part of the reason for that is i wanted to bring the experience of a far off galactic civilisation up to date using the most cutting edge physics thing is there s a lot of physics out there that most people haven t ever heard of and much of it is so counter intuitive that writing about it could feel entirely alienating in a bad way after my bfs and subjective chaos nominated novella the entropy of loss from newcon press seemed to find a great audience i started to think i had a way forward which was to concentrate on just how strange the idea of information is within mathematics and modern physics 3 tell us about the process of how you created it the thing about hard science is that it s hard popular science books have to flatten and simplify it if for no other reason than the language of these things is mathematics and if you can t speak that much of what modern physics has to say about the universe is beyond reasonable reach you obviously can t write that on the page and expect anyone to be interested or for it to make for a thrilling story i can imagine people thinking oh this is hard science and switching off immediately as it not being for them that s the furthest thing from what i want to achieve fortunately for me i ve been long enthralled by the story of hanuman spiritual child of vayu the wind god there are many stories about how hanuman lost his powers but they all centre on someone needing to learn how to control their power not in the sense of flying better but in the sense of power without control is dangerous to everyone around us this was my way in a fantastic story about a powerful being reduced to nothing and having to learn about responsibility from the ground up 4 what was your favourite part of the process figuring out the main characters prab and kercher together with hanuman prab was my everybody the ordinary person thrust into astonishing events kercher s my reject the one who is torn about the system they re supposed to save as always a great story has to be driven by the characters not the setting 5 what was the toughest part of it navigating that line between the madness of how modern science describes the universe and creating a story in which everything feels interesting and familiar enough to have you turning the page 6 is there a theme running through it when big events dwarf us how do we find meaning how do we make a difference when it feels like we have no power to be honest that feels pretty important to me right now 7 what are you working on now i have a bunch of stuff coming next year i have a cold war sf novel and following swiftly on its heels the first of an epic fantasy duology set for 2027 alongside those will also be a light hearted portal fantasy series also due to launch in 2027 i m exhausted just reading that list thanks so much for talking to me stewart and here s hoping project hanuman is the first of many huge successes posted by simon at wednesday november 12 2025 no comments labels angry robot ian whates project hanuman stewart hotston the entropy of loss the lowdown what s new wednesday 23 april 2025 nightmare abbey 8 hi folks just a quick heads up to let you all know that my story the witch of november is the lead tale in the latest edition of tom english s excellent journal nightmare abbey the witch of november is another of my tales of bone street that strange little corner of manchester that appears on no maps of the city which also featured in my story in the previous issue of nightmare abbey the hadrian hornpipe it sits alongside stories and articles by john llewellyn probert stephen volk steve duffy helen grant gary mcmahon and many many more go forth and avail yourself of a copy here big thanks to ben unsworth and samuel forrest who helped me with my very rusty latin for this story posted by simon at wednesday april 23 2025 no comments labels ben unsworth bone street gary mcmahon helen grant john llewellyn probert nightmare abbey stephen volk steve duffy wednesday 27 november 2024 that hornblowing thing again by pirgoif own work cc by sa 4 0 https commons wikimedia org w index php curid 141784673 with december very nearly upon us it s time for one of those obligatory annual posts where i review what came out this year other than me novels the ravening angry robot books as by daniel church novella jaeger black shuck books follow up to my 2020 novella roth steyr stories the manktelow timepiece parsec 10 territory nightmare abbey 6 the hadrian hornpipe nightmare abbey 7 patreon hungry is the hunter where the river runs red a verse story last christmas was published on patreon on 22nd december 2023 technically last year but after the cut off point for most anthologies so i mention it here and that s the lot not too shabby i guess onwards and upwards simon x posted by simon at wednesday november 27 2024 no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom support me on patreon become a patron support my work on ko fi pages home about daniel church tide of souls the faceless black mountain hell s ditch devil s highway wolf s hill the feast of all souls a hazy shade of winter pictures of the dark let s drink to the dead the condemned and cannot come again singing back the dark nine ghosts angels of the silences breakwater roth steyr jaeger a different kind of light devils of london thin men with yellow faces short fiction my radio plays spine chillers workshops interviews non fiction free story follow me on twitter gevaudanshoal find me on facebook my facebook author page followers blog archive 2026 4 june 1 two things of 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