Silas Sets Forth

Signed with an Inspired Quill

For a man who makes a living out of words, it's quite disconcerting to find myself suddenly speechless: still that's the effect a book deal can have on an author.

Yes, that's right – a book deal.

I am greatly pleased to say that my novel Silas Morlock has been taken on by up-and-coming publisher Inspired Quill (IQ) and is scheduled for release towards the Autumn of 2012.

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Ripping Yarn

Deep, dark and gruesome

Third Sight

By Ian Woodhead

 Reviewed by Mark Cantrell

ONCE again the delightfully twisted mind of Ian Woodhead has concocted yet another cracking horror story – and this one really isn’t for the faint-hearted.

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Feel The Guilt

Seeing Red and feeling Cross, this ‘charity’ has gone too far 

By Mark Cantrell

THE letter landed on the doormat with all the urgency of a final demand, but this was no stern warning from some self-imposed authority barking a bellicose warning on the consequences of my fiscal shortcomings.

No, this letter was a guilt trip, or maybe that should be a guilt trap: if there was any stick, then it was intended to be a club made of my own guilt, and I would be the one to wield the cudgel until I saw the error of my ways.

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Feeling Peaky

Dr Eurich

Conquering the scourge of anthrax

Back in 2002 (or thereabouts),  a terror scare erupted after several people received mail contaminated with anthrax spores. In the wake of that, I found myself being interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds as an 'expert' thanks to the following article I'd written some years before. Fortunately, I was interviewed alongside a genuine expert. Aside from that, there can't be many cities 'twinned' with a disease and what a nasty one my home town got...

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A Word With Me

Interviewed on Indies Unlimited

Check out the blog Indies Unlimited for an interview with Mark Cantrell, the author of Citizen Zero. And once you've finished that, you might care to stick around and discover a wealth of indie authoring talent...

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