Friday 26 September 2008

New Release!

A Bad Influence is finally ready for publication and will be released exclusively on Excessica on the 6th October. The book and purchasing details can be found here and I'm offering the prize of a free copy of my 4,000 word short story But Is It Art? to the first person who writes a review for the excessica website.

Looking forward to hearing all your comments.


EXCERPT


Alistair now found himself the sole focus of Katie’s attention and, although he was oblivious to the reason behind it, it started to have an effect nonetheless. A subtle change had come over him inside his own head. First, he allowed himself to fantasise about Katie; his usual self-protective restraint abandoned. Even more crucially, however, he was beginning to believe that a liaison between he and Katie wasn’t a complete impossibility and, consequently, introduced ever greater detail into his fantasies— how she’d feel in his arms and what her lips would taste like. The more he thought about her, the more he wanted to touch her until, eventually, all he could think about was sleeping with her; holding her in his arms and sliding into her again and again until bliss prevailed.
Subsumed in his explicit fantasies, nothing could get through to him but the satisfaction of his desires. Once he realised this, he, too, began to formulate a plan.