Tag: mystery fiction

Happy Halloween

~ Sean Monaghan ~ Leave a comment

Halloween sneaks up on us here in New Zealand, since it’s spring, so an ‘end of the harvest’ festival feels kind of weird. That said, many folks are happily embracing the spirit of it, with decorations and trick-or-treaters out and about.

So likewise in the spirit of all that, I have a new slightly spooky story out today – Bright Coven – which also serves as a lead in to the forthcoming Castle Bound Kickstarter, due early February. More on that further on.

Bright Coven

Another extraordinary and engrossing tale from remarkable writer Sean Monaghan.

The tall abandoned house on ordinary Nelson Street attracts vagrants and vermin and bored kids looking for scares. But when cunning detectives Gray Knox and Nicki Ballard investigate deeper, stranger happenings, they find themselves plunging into a missing person mystery.

Discovering a ritual pentacle on the floor suggests something far more sinister.

And more deadly.

Sean Monaghan lets loose with a fast-moving, complex and shifting mystery that tears the shrouds off family life and modern suburbia.

$2.99 for the ebook, and $12.99 in print. Available from the usual stores, including the main website – use the code BChalloween to get half off – a buck fifty, that.

Detectives Gray Knox and Nicki Ballard will appear in the novel Castle Bound, coming out in the Kickstarter in February, and then on general release in June 2027.

You can check out the prelaunch page and follow along here – I’ll let you know when the Kickstarter launches.

New year, new challenge, new books.

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A great start to the year. Hot weather, lots of writing, new books, and a photo challenge.
With some colleagues at work, I’m participating in a “Photo every day for the year” challenge. I write every day, so why not take a photo every day too?

Most of the others are using Instagram, which I guess is the thing for photos nowadays. Me, not having a phone smart enough to run Instagram, I’m uploading photos to Flickr from computer. A desktop at that. (It turns out, Instagram doesn’t work from PCs).
My page is here: Sean Monaghan 365 Flickr

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With about thirty-something pictures so far. I am taking a picture every day, just that with the whole move-it-to-the-computer thing, I’m not managing to post every day. Still, on track to get all 365 images up.
The double challenge might come later in the year with continuing the circle theme.

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I also managed to get a couple of short books out in January. Touches Electricity and Unicorn Beluga Play Madison Square Garden. Both available as ebooks and in print.
Setting higher goals for publishing this year. Last year I managed to get out just four novels and a clutch of shorter books. Aiming for ten novels and sixteen other books this year (one every two weeks). Some of those other books will be collections of the shorter works.
I’m enjoying the ability to put up a single work that’s shorter than novel length (Touches Electricity is about 10,000 words, or about forty pages, Unicorn Beluga… is about half again as long). Once I have about five or so of those out at that length, I’ll put them together in a single collection, which will be closer to that novel-length 250-300 pages.

Unicorn Beluga Play Madison Square Garden
Max Deacon, music producer extraordinaire, works with any band with a good idea. Inspiration is more important than the money. Though the money’s good.
But with Unicorn Beluga playing their hits Max might just be out of his depth. Way out.
A sci-fi story with a heart from the author of The Molenstraat Music Festival and Crimson Birds of Small Miracles.

Touches Electricity
Damian feels a tingling surge of electricity. But is it going to help him figure out what’s going on with Carina?
A quirky tale of friendship, mystery and angst, with just a dash of electricity on the loose.

ebooks
Unicorn Beluga Play Madison Square Garden $2.99, Smashwords, Amazon
Touches Electricity $2.99, Smashwords, Amazon

print
Unicorn Beluga Play Madison Square Garden $8.99, Amazon, Barnes and Noble
Touches Electricity $7.99, Amazon, Barnes and Noble

 

If you’ve read this far – thanks. Here’s a free download coupon for Unicorn Beluga Play Madison Square Garden – Coupon Code: DJ77L. Just go to the Smashwords page and enter the coupon code prior to checkout. I hope you enjoy the book.

(p.s. I’ve limited the coupons to 20 – should be plenty, given how many people read my blog but if you get there and the code doesn’t work, my apologies – send me a message and I’ll get you a copy).