Lucilla - a novella is now also available as a Kindle eBook

Lucilla - a novella, serialised last year in Bewildering Stories, is now available as a kindle eBook as well as in hardcover.

The kindle version is £2.99 in the UK and $3.70 in the United States.

It was just another standard day at the Women’s Refuge until the arrival of Lucilla. Then Miranda’s world was never the same again.
Unaccountably influenced by what the girl needed, her job, her friendships, even freedom itself were of no importance. It was not until her niece’s life was at risk that Miranda knew she had to act.
But what could she do against someone who had such a tight, insidious grip on her?

amazon UK £13.99 in hardcover/£2.99 in kindle

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Lucilla - a novella is now available in hardcover

My novella Lucilla, serialised last year in Bewildering Stories, is now available in hardcover for £13.99/$17.85. The cover artwork is by Jim Pitts.

It was just another standard day at the Women’s Refuge until the arrival of Lucilla. Then Miranda’s world was never the same again.
Unaccountably influenced by what the girl needed, her job, her friendships, even freedom itself were of no importance. It was not until her niece’s life was at risk that Miranda knew she had to act.
But what could she do against someone who had such a tight, insidious grip on her?

amazon UK £13.99

amazon.com $17.85

Lucilla - a novella

Sometime in the near future Parallel Universe Publications will be publishing my novella Lucilla, which was serialised last year in Bewildering Stories. 

It was just another standard day at the Women’s Refuge until the arrival of Lucilla. 

Then Miranda’s world was never the same again. 

Unaccountably influenced by what the girl needed, her job, her friendships, even freedom itself were of no importance. It was not until her niece’s life was at risk that Miranda knew she had to act. 

But what could she do against someone who had such a tight, insidious grip on her?

The cover artwork is by Jim Pitts. 

Pdfs of the book are available prior to publication for reviews.  

Please email paralleluniversepublications@gmx.co.uk for copies. 

 

Lucilla - serialised in Bewildering Stories - available to read free online

My story Lucilla was published last year in Bewildering Stories, serialised in 11 parts. It is available to read online free from this link.

Lucilla - published in Bewildering Stories

My story Lucilla has been published in 11 parts in Bewildering Stories. To read them for free follow this link.

Lucilla

After writing two lengthy short stories in a row (Old Grudge Ender and Swan Song), and having gone through and revised all the stories to go in my collection next year, The Lurkers in the Abyss, I have decided to get back to finishing a novel I started some time ago, Lucilla. I've already written 30,000 words. Read through it again today and was satisfied with how it was going. Unlike the novel due out next year from Dark Continents Publishing, The Return, this isn't straight horror, though it has strong horror elements.

Lucilla

You know some stories end so easily. It's there. It's finished. And not a word needs altering.

Others...

I'm afraid Lucilla is one of those. Spent a lot of today working and reworking the final pages.

I think I need to put it to one side for a while. Look at it in a few months time, refreshed.

Lucilla

Having decided that this story wasn't right to be much longer than a novella, I finally finished the first draft tonight, drawing it to a conclusion at 25,700 words.

The final part will need some revision before it will be finally finished, and perhaps putting to one side for several months. Other than that, I am happy with it.

Lucilla - a work in progress

I have added the opening chapters to Lucilla on the pages above for Works in Progress.

I would be interested in any comments anyone who reads them have to make.

Sendings

FifoBooks have emailed me with advice to:

Tell your friends on Facebook

Post a tweet on Twitter

Both should be interesting experiences as I've never used either. My wife has a Facebook account, and even though she rarely uses it I suppose I could get some advice off her, but as for Twitter?  Still, it is the 21st Century and, if I'm prepared to take the plunge with this e-book, I suppose I may as well go all the way. After all, what's to lose?

Apart from valuable time perhaps better spent writing.

Ahem!

I'm still working on Lucilla, which I'm finding much more fascinating for me than anything I've previously written at this length. I've also got to find time to take another look at the last novel I managed to complete, The Return, and make whatever changes it needs before submitting it somewhere. I like this novel, though it is dark - perhaps one of the bleakest stories I have ever written, apart from The Worst of All Possible Places in Houses on the Borderland. I don't suppose I could get much bleaker than that. But they're horror stories, and you don't get many rays of sunshine in them.

Anyway, I'll be taking a look at Twitter some time today, though the name doesn't particularly appeal to me. Perhaps it's the "twit" part.

Lucilla

I am pressing on with Lucilla, though I don't intend posting any more of the novel here. (I mustn't endanger its chances of being published elsewhere by publishing it here first.)

The writing seems to be coming along okay and I am pleased with what I have managed so far. This is definitely going to be a strange story. I am glad, too, that I decided to scrap the last 5,000 words. It was going in what was definitely the wrong direction. Sometimes you just have to be savage with what you have written.

Lucilla

I have posted the opening chapters of a novel I am working on at the moment. It's called Lucilla, and is a different kind of story for me - and one I am enjoying very much.

Don't worry, though - it is horror, with supernatural elements.