I have, you may of noticed, been extolling the virtues of Harvey Duckman for a couple of years now. I will admit some personal interest as I have stories in every edition. But if that’s not enough to tempt you, each volume has at least fourteen other writers as well as me, and somewhere in the region of sixty authors have written for the series so far. From established names in the indie writing scene to entirely new voices who have first had works published within the pages of the series. More than one of whom has gone on to publish novels and other works beyond Harvey.
Harvey is one of the most fun, entertaining and rewarding things I have ever been a apart of. Which is why I put so much effort into talking about it here. (did you notice the ten post series for the latest Harvey offering that I have just finished? You didn’t, well go back and read them now… )
The Harvey team are always on the look out not just for readers but for new writers too, and they have just released a new website where you can read about Harvey editions, Harvey’s growing stable of writers, and even join the stable yourself by submitting a story and joining me and the rest of the Harvey writers, all of whom are talent individuals.
The website is new, and expanding, soon to include a wiki for every writer and every work featured in the books. So take a look, bookmark it , and go back again every now and again.
If however you haven’t read a Harvey yet. Why? You don’t know what your missing… Go take a look, and don’t worry if this seems like a lot, you can read them in any order. So Come, Welcome to our worlds…
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
Few people in the world would happily say they are a Muppet. Certainly in the vernacular of modern Britian and one assumes elsewhere, calling someone ‘a Muppet’ is a soft insult implying they are somewhat foolish. R.Bruce Connelly, on the other hand, is a Muppet, professionally. Which is to say he is the actor behind the mask, or full length Muppet costume. He is also a writer of somewhat chilling fiction, a regular contributor to the Harvey stable, and an all-round nice guy.
He has had four stories in his ‘Bike Cycle’ series published in Harvey Duckman Present… Volumes 1-4, plus a short story in Harvey’s Christmas Special, 2019, and a fantasy story in Harvey Duckman Presents… Vol. 5.
Of his story in the HD pirates special he says:
“This story was inspired by a substitute teacher I had in elementary school. Some nights I still awaken in a cold sweat thinking she’s in the room, although she never is. Just the Dawes 5 speed, and who would be scared of that? I have included three shout-outs to Sir James Barrie, who first brought the world of piracy to my knowledge. Two are obvious. The third refers to one of the funniest incidents in children’s literature. Let me know if you find it!”
We will Bruce, we will
Another of the stable of repeat offenders (by which I mean Harvey authors who appear in most editions) is Peter James Martin. Creator of Brennan and Riz, a pair of supernatural folklore investigators/troubleshooters, one of which isn’t a rat… Actually I’m far from sure the rat is really a rat either but that’s by the by. A Harvey Duckman anthology without a Brennan and Riz story would be a strange animal.
Peter James Martin is an author who knows a thing or two about talking rats, namely that they’d make terrible pets. Nestled in the North East of England, on the banks of the River Tees, he lives with his family and two Shih Tzus.
In this edition the pair encounter The Flying Dutchman, things do not go will for Brennan…
If you want more Brennan and Riz? Then you can follow them on Twitter at @Brennan_and_Riz where Peter posts mini adventures of the duo through the #vss365 tag. While his blog features short stories and folklore galore over at his https://tstpjm.blogspot.com/
The Strange Tales of Brennan and Riz is available in paperback and in E-book, there is also a review of the first book I did a couple of years ago here, a new novel is due early next year.
And finally… having spoken of the flying Dutchman , by strange coincidence our last writer in this edition is a Dutchman, and if you think that seems a bit contrived on my part, the Dutchman in question is Nils Nisse Visser who is a descendant of Piet Visser who wrote the original Dutch telling of the tale of the Flying Dutchman a fact he discovered while researching the original story for a updated steampunk version of the tale set on an airship… Neither Peter, nor the editors were aware of this connection… And unless they read this they will remain so, I however am amused…
I have a little culpability here, as I have been badgering Nils to write a story for Harvey for over a year now. This is because Nils is one of the best authors I have discovered over the last couple of year, and coincidentally one of my favorite humans as well. I’ve reviewed several of his novellas in the past couple of years, though in all honesty I have merely scratched the surface, I’ve put links in the extensive list below for the books I have read and reviewed. But for the moment I’ll let Nils speak for himself through the medium of his HD bio.
Told once too often that he spends too much time in his imagination, Nils Nisse Visser finally got the hint and moved there on a permanent basis, having located it in Brighton, Sussex. His wisdom in life choices is best demonstrated by deciding to move to the UK just in time for the Brexit referendum, so the future is as uncertain as could be. He’s embarked on a rather insane quest to retell old Sussex folklore (and some Dutch sealore) within several different genres. Entering his fifties, Visser hopes to become a pirate if/when he grows up.
Sanctuary Asylum Festival introduction to Smugglepunk:
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
And with that my days of piracy are done… normal blog service of weird and wonderful stuff ( and me wittering on a bit) will resume shortly.
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
Joseph Carrabis first came to my attention in the third Harvey Duckman volume with one of the oddest and in many ways most beautiful short stories I’d read in an age. In this regard he represents all that is great about been involved in the Harvey Duckman Anthologies for me, because they give the reader (and the writers for that matter,) a chance to discover new authors they would never otherwise have come across. He is not alone in capturing my interest, he is one of several authors that I have been lucky enough to discover through Harvey and while not every Harvey author may have become my favorite, every one of them has becomes someones I suspect. Joseph in this regard, is one of mine, (but don’t tell him that…) mainly because I never know what to expect from one of his stories.
His bio in Harvey reads…
Joseph Carrabis’s short fiction has been recommended for the Nebula (Cymodoce, May ‘95 Tomorrow Magazine) and nominated for the Pushcart (The Weight, Nov ‘95 The Granite Review). His work has recently appeared in Across the Margin, The New Accelerator, parAbnormal, serialized in The Piker Press, HDP, and podcasted on Chronosphere Science Fiction. His first indie novel, The Augmented Man, is getting 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes&Noble, and others. His two self-pubbed books, Empty Sky and Tales Told ’Round Celestial Campfires, are getting 5 star reviews (and he has more books in the works). Joseph holds patents covering mathematics, anthropology, neuroscience, and linguistics. When not writing, he spends time loving his wife, playing with his dog and cat, flying kites bigger than most cars, cooking for friends and family, playing and listening to music, and studying anything and everything he believes will help his writing.
I reviewed one of Joseph novels ‘The Augmented Man’ back in June the review can be found here.
He has also written ‘Empty Sky’ , and ‘Tales Told ‘Round Celestial Campfires’ which I need to read at some point.
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
Elizabeth Tuckwell ( and I use her Sunday name because I have enormous respect for her writing, which has produced some of my favorite Harvey stories) is a British writer of quirky science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories. She currently lives in London, and shares her house with a husband and too many books. (At no point has she ever explained what ‘too many books’ means, as someone living in a library with a house in the middle myself, I’m not sure such a thing is possible, but maybe that’s just me…)
Liz enjoys reading and writing, and cramming as many holidays as she can into a year. She’s a member of the Clockhouse London Writers group. Aside harvey Liz has had stories published in other anthologies such as MCSI: Magical Crime Scene Investigations and the Short! Sharp! Shocks! series, and on the 101fiction and Speculative66 microfiction websites.
Indeed for Liz who manages to produce great works of fiction you can fit in a tweet at times, the short stories in Harvey are almost long form… Which perhaps explains how she managed to make them seem so perfectly crafted.
Christine King, according to her Harvey bio, has always loved telling stories and writing for as long as she can remember, from bedtime stories for her young siblings to fantasy-filled short stories as a hormonal teenager. Growing up, she had a couple of short stories published in a teen magazine of the 1970s called Fab 208 and has a few rejection slips from Jackie which she held on to for years. In 2013 she won a national writing competition with her first novel, The Blade and The Dove, and has gone on to have two more books published, with two more presently underway. She finds her inspiration mainly from walking the hills and coastline of the beautiful North East of England.
Regular readers of these pages may remember I recently reviewed Smugglers Moon one of Christine’s novels, which was a great read and encouraged me to get copies of her earlier novels The Blade and the Dove, Echoes of the Stones despite not generally been a reader of romance fiction.
But as well as romance fiction she writes a little horror as well and it is in this vain that she has had stories in previous Harvey volumes. If there is a link between regency romances and horror fiction (other than pride and prejudiced & zombies) Christine is one day going to find it.
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
Anthony Buxton became an author at the age of 22, writing his series The Lost Sons of the West. He currently has two books in the series released and four short stories, in volumes of Harvey Duckman Presents. Anthony also runs a new, modern blog where he shares stories of his personal life as well as in depth information about his book series and his plans for the future.
Anthony’s blog escapades have been quite entertaining.
Loïc Baucherel was raised on a steady diet of sci-fi and fantasy, from Doctor Who through Star Wars and Marvel to the Hobbit. He read the entire Harry Potter series unaided before his 7th birthday to earn the right to watch the later films. During lockdown he learned techniques for plotting and constructing stories from both his school and his drama academy, and started to experiment with scripts and short stories. Jump to the Past is his first published work.
According to his Bio in this latest offering:
Andy did one thing for most of his life, then decided to do nothing. Nothing quickly turned out to be everything and now he’s too busy even to talk to himself. He also writes poetry, which can only be read with a Plutonium milkshake. He is normal. Are you?
Andy has written stories that have featured in previous Harvey’s. These stories were so entertaining and on occasion thought provoking that despite it technically being a violation of my personal religious code, (the third commandment ‘Thou’t shall not suffer to live that which rhymes in couplets’) I bought a copy of his poetry collection ‘I Saw You’.
Even more remarkably I quite enjoyed it.
I did of course shriven myself afterwards, and did penance for my foul deed, so we have no need to talk about it ever again…
Andy also has written the occasional guest blog for these hallowed halls. They have always been interesting, odd, occasionally bizarre, but interesting…
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
When I first met C.G. Hatton she was dressed as a pirate…
(okay that’s probably not strictly true, though there was a little of the pirate about how she was dressed at the time… That meeting is story I have told before, it’s a good story , and you can find it as the foreword of a box set of her novels, because for reasons that still escape me she asked me to write one for her. You can also find it here… )
Amazingly this is only the second time one of C.G.Hatton’s stories has appeared in a Harvey Duckman collection. Something which fans of her work (myself included) probably find a little disappointing. Indeed, one of the few things about the Harvey books I ever find disappointing is the lack of another C.G.Hatton story, which is why this was the first story I read when I got my filthy hands on a pre-publication copy of the Pirate Special. It did not disappoint, but then Gillie never does.
It’s amazing this is only the second time Gillie has had a story in a Harvey edition, not only because of the joy and strength of her writing, but because she and husband Andy are the driving forces behind Harvey Duckman. Gillie is editor in chief, while Andy keeps her supplied with rum (he does other things as well, but the rum is the important things here). She is therefore the one person who should be in every edition, yet she gives up her own slot to fresh new writers time and again. While giving her time and energy freely to the project, for which every writer to appear between the folds of a Harvey paperback owe her a debt.
But, editor or not, the stories in any Harvey edition have to be worthy of there place. There is always competition for slots and if Dimarco was not worthy of its slot in the Pirates special, it would not be there. But its a C.G.Hatton story, so there is no doubt at all it is worthy of its slot. A wonderfully atmospheric piece about an aging freebooter come pirate, sat trying to wash away bad memories and haunting images of blood and fire at a bar, when a mysterious man in a corner booth presents him with an offer, if he’s willing to take a gamble that could cost him everything.
Its dark, insightful, multilayered, full of looming threats and dark hints to the wider Thieves Guild universe. Much as you would expect from one of the best voices in scifi.
Kheris Burning (Thieves’ Guild Origins: LC Book One)
Beyond Redemption (Thieves’ Guild Origins: LC Book Two)
Defying Winter (Thieves’ Guild Origins: LC Book Three) is due out in 2021
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
Melissa specialises in fantasy writing, ranging from mythical to urban. She loves reading about different folklore and myths, especially Arthurian, and always has music on when she’s writing. She loves nature and the land, especially Wales where she is from originally. She writes both short stories and novels, bringing something different to them with her dyslexia. She’s had many short stories read on radio and published in anthologies. She wrote her first proper short story at the age of eighteen, and through serendipity it was promptly broadcast.
She was also one of the winners of Writing Britain 2015 with her short film script about Aspergic women, ‘Unbroken’, which was shown at cinema screenings of short films in Hull and Leeds in 2017. It is now available to view at: https://studio12.org.uk/2020/07/14/unbroken/
This is Melissa second outing in Harvey Duckman, her short story, Heta’s Journey, appeared in Harvey Duckman Volume 3.
Reino has dabbled with writing for a number of years and across a number of genres from sci-fi to thriller to fantasy to steampunk to the just plain weird, and when once asked, “Why do you write?” replied, “To get rid of the voices, of course. What other reason is there?”
Reino previously appeared in the first every Harvey Duckman Anthology, where his unique approach to story telling, and insights into the inner workings of government, drew many plaudits among the drunk, destitute and morally ambiguous members of her majesties civil service, or as they are otherwise known the home office. Perhaps the voices were quiet for a while afterwards which is why it has taken so long for him to return to the hallowed pages of Harvey. One suspects he will return again when the voices get too much…
Mark Sayeh refuses to be drawn on question of whether he truly exists or whether is he is a cunningly created pen name that is impossible to decipher. What is known is that he has previously written about the experience of becoming a fan of Middlesbrough football club in the 1990s. This was possibly a cunning fiction, much like his name, no one knows for sure.
This is Sayeh’s first outing in a Harvey, a story of treasure, betrayal, and tattoos.
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
Regular readers may wonder why I did three in one go in this post, it may be because two of the writers only technically exist in an alternative universe, but mainly its because there are seventeen writers and stories in the pirate special and I needed to cram a few together about whom I had less to say… Unlike the next writer I will be featuring about which I can seldom say enough…
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
According to his Bio in this special edition of the Harvey Duckman Anthologies:
Mark Hayes writes novels that often defy simple genre definitions; they could be described as speculative fiction, though Mark would never use the term as he prefers not to speculate. When not writing novels, Mark is a persistent pernicious procrastinator; he recently petitioned parliament for the removal of the sixteenth letter from the Latin alphabet. He is also 8 ¾’s Dan Black Belt in the ancient Yorkshire martial art of EckEThump and favours a one man one vote system but has yet to supply the name of the man in question. Mark has also been known to not take writing his bio very seriously.
How exactly it is possible to be an 8 ¾’s Dan Black Belt in any martial art is something on which he refuses to be drawn, but such are the mysteries of EckEThump, which he learned at the feet of a grand master, who can be found, wearing a flat cap and leaning on a farm gate, in the ancient hills above Halifax.
The story from Mark, in this special edition, begins on a row boat in the middle of an endless ocean, where a man dressed as a pirate is discussing the strange situation they have found themselves in with a man who isn’t. There may or may not be a cat involved, and ninja’s are made much mention of because this is a book about pirates…
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
Now, and to stop referring to myself in the third person, this is the point where I normally list contact details and other things for which ever Harvey writer this blog is about. But as this ones about me, and you are already here… If you interested in my books, I’m sure you can figure out where to find them.
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
Kate Baucherel became a sci fi fan the first time she saw the Daleks from behind the sofa, Kate works on the application of new and emerging technologies to solve business problems. Sometimes her imagination gets the better of her, and the fictional worlds in her writing are rooted in the possibilities already at our fingertips. Her work includes the SimCavalier futurist cybercrime series, several short stories, and non-fiction books for business leaders.
The future is a strange place, both familiar and not in equal measure. When it comes to authors predicting the world of tomorrow who is better qualified than an expert on emerging technologies. If you want to know what the world will be like in twenty years time you could do a lot worse than to ask Kate or read her Sim Caviler novels. Elegantly paced thrillers that hang heavy on the worlds of cybercrime and cybercrime fighters. All set just a couple or three decades from now. A world with a shiny bright veneer, but dark undertones. In a world where cryptocurrency is king and hackers fight wars of the keyboard. All this made all the more believable because this world of tomorrow is based on the technology that’s coming oh so soon, with characters that feel and sound real, because the world they inhabit is, we just haven’t arrived there yet, but we will…
Her third Sim Caviler novel is in final editing and due sometime before Christmas, which I for one look forward to. She also recently decided that hyper-realistic near future fiction was not enough and her latest Harvey Duckman have featured the adventures of an intergalactic tourist doing their gap year and the occasional catapulting octopod barman… At least we assume she is making these ones up, its hard to be sure, Kate, you see, knows things….
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
Avast M’hearties Pirate Day be a’coming. So batten down y’hatches. Splice the main sails. Steer with the wind, and damn y’eyes, for that callow cove Captain Duckman will keel haul the lot of y’ if y’nay pay him some mind…
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on the horizon, and with it comes the release of Harvey Duckman Presents, The Pirate Special.
Just like the main series of Harvey Duckman Anthologies this is a collection of fifteenth exciting new writers and established independent authors of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, horror and Steampunk. To celebrate this I’m running a feature for the new few weeks on the authors and stories featured in this edition, cause Captain Duckman made me and there was mention of rum…
Mostly because of the rum…
Ben Sawyer is a writer of paranormal fiction based in York. He is constantly mining the city’s dark snickelways for material for a series of urban fantasy novels and short stories. All he needs is a tall ship, a star to steer her by, and a nameless terror from the dawn of time. Gin helps too.
Ben previously featured in the Harvey Duckman Christmas Special with a well received story about the ghosts of York Minister. he is currently work on his first novel ‘Waking the Witch’ the first book in an urban fantasy series set in York which we look forward to enormously (having just read the blurb below on his website.)
Mira Chaudhri didn’t believe in ghosts until one killed the electrician.
Yesterday, Mira was a perfectly ordinary inhabitant of the historically touristy city of York. Tonight, she’s going to learn that every story ever told about her city is true, and many more besides. And there are a lot of stories…
Because tonight, a monster is lurking in the shadows, hunting for prey. The Hangman has come to call and the only thing standing in its way is a woman whose work is literally never done.
Holly has protected the city for longer than she’d care to admit. A lifetime spent battling supernatural horrors, patrolling the boundaries of the spirit world, and fighting off hell itself with nothing but an umbrella and a Kate Bush mixtape.
Not surprisingly, she’s proper knackered.
So Holly needs a helping hand, and Mira’s about to become her new best friend. Together they’ll venture into the otherworldly corners of Europe’s most haunted city, to solve the terrible mystery of the Hangman. And every step of the way, the girl in the bobble hat will be waiting for them. Waiting for the tale to be told…
Welcome to York. Where owt’s possible.
The Harvey Pirates Special comes out on International Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th of September and will be available in paperback and on kindle, the kindle version is available for pre-order now… So get it or I’ll make yer walk the plank…
The Passing Place 