Our favourite foul-mouthed demon-botherer Don Drake is back in the second of Peter McLean’s Burned Man series, Dominion – A dark neo noir set beneath London, written with all the charm of your favourite British gangster movies. As the sequel to Drake and followed by the upcoming (just under a month, folks!) Damnation, there’s plenty more of this gritty urban fantasy to explore. 
In the tunnels deep under London, the
Dominion, Peter McLean‘s second novel and the follow up to Drake now has a shiny new cover thanks to the brilliant Raid 71.
There’s a link to see the full cover, plus exclusive excerpt at the bottom of the page but first, here’s the synopsis:
In the tunnels deep under London, the Earth Elementals are dying.
Hunted by something they know only as the Rotman, the Elementals have no one trustworthy they can turn to. Enter Don Drake, diabolist and semi-reformed hitman, and an almost-fallen angel called Trixie.
The matriarch tells Don that Rotman is actually the
Good tidings!
We have a most excellent announcement straight from your Robot Overlords, circulating high on their orbital death platform: some of our lovely, lovely books are now available to those hard of sight, in both large print formate and braille.
Currently 36 of our favourite titles are available both in braille and large print (in a variety of text sizes/boldness) so we can spread more of our lovely books to the world.
The list currently includes books such as:
Dr Potter’s Medicine Show by Eric Scott Fischl
Drake and Dominion by Peter McLean
Kojiki by Keith
Well, 2016 was a busy old year for us, what with publishing many wonderful, wonderful books, continuing to take over the world, offering human sacrifices to the gods, that kind of thing.
It seems our sacrifices haven’t gone unnoticed as we have found our books placed in a whole load of ‘best of 2016’ lists, which has, quite honestly, made out 2017 thus far.
We’d like to say a big thank you
Now and again our authors get requests to give talks to interested parties and aspiring authors. Sometimes these requests are from prisons, which is exactly what happened to Peter McLean the other week, as he was asked to speak to inmates at HMP Norwich.
Being inside a prison, as an author imparting knowledge, is something that not that many of us experience, so we asked Peter to write about his experience.
So, in Peter’s own words…
A couple of weeks ago I went
Tuesday lords it over us once again, reminding us that the week has begun in earnest. But with it comes revelation – Talk Tuesday To Us, when we strap our authors into the metal chassis which will one day house their brains.
This week in the gleaming exoskeleton is Peter McLean, author of gritty urban fantasy noir Drake, and its imminent diabolical sequel Dominion. It’s screwdriver time… (more…)
Hello, wonderful future slaves people!
Do you fancy winning yourself a copy of one of our November books?
Well you can, if you head on over to GoodReads. We have giveaways listed for both Peter McLean‘s Dominion and Christopher Hinz‘s Binary Storm, both of which will run until October 26.
The giveaways are available to those living in UK, Ireland, India, South Africa, New Zealand, US and Canada. (more…)
Salutations and good news to all!
We’re happy, delighted, made up and overjoyed to announce that there’s going to be a third book in Peter McLean‘s The Burned Man series!
Damnation will be released in May 2017 and sees our hapless anti-hero head to Scotland, caught up in new peril of an occult nature.
For those not familiar with Don Drake, not-quite fallen angel Trixie and the Burned Man, here’s a couple of reviews of Drake, the first title in the series,
Exciting news for a Friday, we’ve heard that Drake, Peter McLean‘s brilliant Lock, Stock noir with demons, will be making its way to the Czech Republic to be published by Host.
You might remember Peter as being one of our submissions from the last open door. We’re delighted that Drake’s had such a good reception and can’t wait for November when the second in the series, Dominion, hits
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