Dan Howarth

I feel like I start every post on this website by lamenting how long it’s been since I last posted here. In truth, it is always too long. For those of you hankering for more updates, they tend to come more frequently from my mailing list. You can subscribe here (and get a free ebook). But with that said, you’re here now and it’s time to talk. I didn’t bring a book out in 2023. This is a statement that wounds me to write down. Territory came out in 2022 and I was flying. I still am flying – writing-wise.

The last time I posted here I was sweating in the (relative) heat of the British summer, now I’m sipping tea and wondering whether I can afford to put the heating on for an hour to take the edge off the cold. Things change quickly, sometimes they change without you noticing. I appeared recently on the This Is Horror podcast to chat with Michael David Wilson and David Moody about writing and books. While I was on there, I stumbled upon a nugget of truth I wanted to expand upon here.

Oof. This is my first post of 2023. Pretty much a quarter of the year is gone already and I’m beginning to wonder what I have to show for it. The answer is – a whole lot of words that are yet to see publication! That’s not to say they won’t – as we all know, publishing is a fickle, difficult business so there are no guarantees when or even if a book is going to make its way out there. There’s been lots to celebrate in 2023 regardless of it being a slow publication year so far.