Hello all! It’s almost the end of September after an eventful and somewhat stressful summer. Luckily, we come to you today with only good news: The Haunting of Avis Lovelock is out in the world today!
You can buy her in ebook, paperback, or audiobook; here are some helpful links: https://geni.us/avisl
Avis Lovelock is a professional sceptic. Using her sharp insights and powers of observation, she sets out to debunk every nefarious spirit medium and psychic she can find. When she is invited aboard the ocean liner Excambion to take her skills to America, Avis discovers she has been hired to prove to potential buyers that the vessel is not haunted.
As she begins her investigations, she runs afoul of the famous twin spiritualists onboard, Gideon and Rachel Duquesne. The more Avis works to discredit her adversaries and absolve the ship of its haunted reputation, the more she has visions of water filling her cabin, drowned bodies on decks, and flickering lights on the sea. Then someone is found dead. To discover the truth, Avis must join forces with her opponents, and confront some haunting secrets of her own.
We had a lot of fun writing this one, folks, and I hope it shows. The quippy tagline we’ve been using is ‘Sherlock Holmes meets Fleabag aboard a haunted Titanic’ which pretty much sums it up! Come for spookiness and Gilded Age opulence, stay for a snarky, flawed detective character confronting her ghosts and learning to be slightly less obnoxious through the power of Friendship and Lovetm.
Where are we?
We’ve got a passel of events coming up; hope you can join us!
September 30 - Queer Showcase at Lighthouse Books with Alessandra Thom & Chloe De Lullington
October 7 - Haunted and Hunted: An Evening of Ghosts at Blackwells Edinburgh
October 9-11 - Fantasycon Glasgow
October 17 - Outfest Book Festival in Stirling with Hannah Kaner & Elle Machray
October 26 - Dark Tales: Curses, Rituals and Sinister Secrets at Wedale Books with Lyndsey Croal & Amy Jane Stewart
October 28 - The Things that Haunt Us: Writing the Gothic Today at Waterstones Reading with Marisa Linton & Jennifer Thorne
