It's here!! Ye gods! Earlier than the known publication date, you can now actually buy my latest novel, A Dangerous Man, from Flame Books, priced at £8, here:

http://www.flamebooks.com/product.asp?prodId=32

And, at the very least, you have to go admire the cover art, which was kindly provided by our very own Nell Grey (huge thanks, Nell!!), using her artist's name of Penelope Cline. Which possibly makes the novel the first Writewords collaboration??.. Now there's a first!

Anyway, here's the blurb:

"Michael Jones, a young gay artist and part-time prostitute will do anything to stage his first exhibition. When he falls in love with rich financier, Jack Hutchinson, he seems set to achieve his goal. But as Mikey becomes caught between the unforgiving territory of smoky-bar Hackney and the green-garden luxury of upper class London, we witness the intense mindscape of a man obsessed with his dreams as he attempts to free himself of his past.

When a net of antagonistic relationships and inner battles encroaches upon him, the consequences of Mikey’s uncompromising pursuit emerge in thrilling tragedy, leaving him having to fight for all he holds dear, and in the only way he knows how. Within a plot thick with the flesh of individual struggle, a backbone of page-turning tension carries Mikey’s plight through the charcoal grey London which rubs itself so close to his skin, entrapping him in a dark kaleidoscope of sex and crime.

Pushing him to the full expression of his haunting richness, Brooke alerts us to the psychological discourse and emotional minefield of a troubled man struggling to establish a sense of self and place in urban England."

Hmm, publisher's purple prose syndrome, I think. And here was I imagining it was just an everyday tale of urban folk ...

Hell, I'm thrilled!!



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Anne, many congratulations! Doesn't it look great!

Emma

Thanks, Emma! Yes, Nell's art is fantastic!



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Great news, Anne! And the cover looks fantastic. Congratulations to both you and Nell.

I’ll have to buy it to see if this book can be judged by its cover

Dee

Thanks, Dee - much appreciated!



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Congratulations, Anne! And how fabulous to see Nell's artwork. Stunning. Blurb is great, too - I shall add A Dangerous Man to my list of 'books I'm allowed to read in March when I've finished writing my own'!

Emily

Ooh, thanks, Emily! It should be something dark and strange to read over Easter then ...!

==:O

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Congratulations!

Congratulations, Anne. And yes, the art work is stunning.

All the best

Harry

Thanks, Sarah & Harry! And Nell will be thrilled to hear you say that too!



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Well done, Anne. Love the cover.

Casey x

Thanks, Casey! - on behalf of Nell!!

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Congratulation, Anne. How exciting.

Is this a first for WW collaborating? Perhaps we will become a force to be reckoned with.
Naomi

Congratulations Anne! It looks and sounds great!

Thanks, Naomi & Roger! Yes, maybe WWers are coming into their own. Next stop, the world, eh? ...

!!

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