writing

  • Our creepy, bizarre horror short “Darner” is heading to the South End on Sea Festival in June!  Ahead of the screening, the director, James Newton, and I did an interview with Blazing Minds to talk all about the film. From its very personal origins, through meetings with Adrienne King, and then actually being made and…

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  • We just got a really thoughtful, honest, and engaging review of Natural Thorn Killers from the amazing team at Bloody Flicks UK.  Reviews are always so helpful to authors, because they give the reader’s perspective, helping us find readers who actually want to read our book – but ones like these are special. You can tell…

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  • As a big fan of the “Dead Air” podcast, I am very excited to say that our book, Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror made it only Lydia Preeve’s Lydia’s Books of Terror April watch list!  We are the only non-ficiton on the list, but got a lot of love and are so…

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  • It’s finally here for Pre-Order, coming out 24 April! Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror Written by Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon In this book, Lauren Jane Barnett and Tony Mardon strap on their hazmat suits and wield their weedkiller to venture into the fascinating world of arborial monsters in horror…

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  • Today my new sci-fi novella, Occam’s Dream, came out!  Dream analyst Ursula is experiencing painful visions of an unknown desert. At first, her therapist, Jill, suggests it’s only a dream. But when Ursula suffers another vision while hooked up to Jill’s dream reader, both realise that there may be more at stake.  It’s out now…

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