Sad news at the farm as we say goodbye to Dogmael, the tricoloured sort-of sheepdog. He had a minor stroke last week and died in his sleep on Saturday afternoon at the grand old age of fourteen and a half. Dogmael – or just Dog for short – came from a farm near Trecwn in […]
It’s been a while coming, but I have finally made the decision to no longer update my Twitter account @SirBenfro. I’m not shutting the account down, and it may well be that I return to it some day, but for now I’ve had enough. I first started tweeting in early 2009, frustratingly just one month […]
Tomorrow, September 12th, sees the publication of my first standalone novel, Broken Ghosts. I am equal parts proud and terrified, although copies have already been spotted in the wild and a few good reviews have popped up here and there. Broken Ghosts is not like any of my other books, so I don’t have the […]
The news is out! The lovely people at Wildfire Books have taken on the task of publishing my odd little standalone novel, Broken Ghosts. It’ll be out in September, so more details in due course. For now, here’s the press release in The Bookseller – https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/wildfire-snaps-up-stunning-gothic-novel-by-james-oswald
The days are ticking down now to the publication of Inspector McLean book 13 – For Our Sins. You lucky people will be able to find out what’s happened to Tony and his colleagues in the almost two years since All That Lives ended on a bombshell. UK readers have been able to pre-order the […]
For a while now I’ve been losing interest in Social Media. I closed down all my facebook accounts over five years ago, and while I have a Tumblr, a Mastodon and a Bluesky, I don’t really use them. Twitter was, until recently, my sole outlet for random mutterings, book news and videos of coos. It’s […]
Today I have had to say goodbye to my black Patterdale terrier, Tegid. Technically my partner’s dog, he has been pretty much my constant companion for the past thirteen and a half years. I bought him for her birthday, back in July 2010. We’d not long lost our previous Patterdale, Mortimer, and missed having a […]
Please ignore this post if you see it, although if you do see it I’ll be very pleased because it will mean the bloody website’s working again. This should appear in Events and the general blog. Here’s hoping.
I’m all too aware that I’ve been neglecting this place of late. There never seems to be enough time in the day to do everything, and often it’s the website that gets overlooked. And so it is, the last post here was back in February. Sorry about that, but there are some interesting things coming […]
So, the publicity for the new book is beginning to fall into place. There’s a launch event on publication day, February 23rd. Half six at Waterstones West End in Edinburgh. Tickets are free and available in store. I’ll be chatting with Russel D McLean about things and stuff. I’ll also be at Toppings in St […]
