As a disabled teenager, Sarah R. New identified strongly with monstrous female characters, but couldn’t quite find herself reflected in her favourite genre. Twenty years on, she’s crafting her own narratives, using personal experiences to thrill and scare readers. She is the host of film analysis podcast Anatomy of a Horror Film, and regularly writes about film analysis on her Substack, naturalis mutant. Her first novella, Gothic horror Amissis Liberis, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2024, followed by body-and-mind horror novella, Hypochondria in 2026. Her most recent novella, animalistic thriller CATFOOD, was released in June 2026.

I’m selling 3 books I published in 2024, Bill Hines (839-903) Oxford’s Socialist Chimney Sweep, A History of Blackhall (these 2 written by me) and The LMS Occupation 1998 by Rob Sykes. And some other books written or published by my friends.

Maud Gillett is an independent author with a fascination for the unexplained.

Her debut novel, Pre-owned, published in early 2025, is a suspense romance with paranormal overtones, set in West Oxfordshire and Dartmouth. The author has also translated Pre-owned into Spanish, published in late 2025, as LA PRE-AMADA.

Maud’s stories have a strong sense of location, featuring some of her personal favourite places. Now happily based in West Oxfordshire, Maud hails originally from Lancashire with its satanic mills, hills and fells.

You’re invited to be one of the first to pick up Maud’s latest novel, SIT IN IT IF YOU DARE, a supernatural, psychological thriller, due for release in mid-November 2026.

You won’t get a hard sell from this author, but she would be delighted to meet you and chat about her writing, and the types of books you love to read.

Find Maud in the Writing Community on BlueSky.

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Cleland Smith is the author of Pictish historical fantasy ‘Black Doe’ and the science fiction novel ‘Sequela’. ‘Black Doe’, is a bloody tale of motherhood, identity and fate, steeped in folklore and tragedy, and set against the backdrop of the 2nd century Scottish Highlands:

“A killer who dreams another’s dreams. A mother whose secret will sire a nightmare.

The Black Doe assassins are legends, shadows who never leave a target alive, but when Bridei is sent to end the threat of a rising warlord, she is stabbed with her own knife, crucified, and left to die. If she is to fulfil her mission, retrieve her stolen memories, and earn her fee, she must live, and she must kill.

Tisiphone’s sons are raised on tales of the Black Does and tales of Rome. They carry great potential: the blood of Cruithne, which grants them the chance to become chieftain, married with that of the mighty Roman general, Agricola. Yet as the invaders encroach ever further north, Tisi finds herself keeping a deadly secret, and what was once a blessing may soon become a curse.

Each woman will do anything to protect what’s hers. Come Bealltainn, there’ll be blood on the bracken.”

“A harsh, evocative vision of Celtic lands where memory, violence, and myth shape every destiny.” – Kirkus Reviews (recommended review)

“Hauntingly beautiful, an exceptional book.” – Anna Smith Spark, author of the Empires of Dust trilogy