An utterly compelling read, its tone reminiscent of a classic fable in parts, A Monster Calls is one of those rare books that you wished you’d never read, so you could read it all over again. It tells the story of a young boy battling far bigger fears than the most gruesome and terrifying of all monsters – the reality of his…
Author: Tom Harris Writes
I write edgy Middle Grade, Young Adult & New Adult Fantasy Fiction.
#RISE: EP7: EATING DAD
They want me out there. Think that they can lure me to them. Dad always warned me about two for one deals. My heart is breaking as they take a bite from his shoulder. The flesh tears. He smiles through it all and then he’s gone. I just watched my dad get eaten. Part of…
Word of the Year: 2016
Every year, per annum in fact, Oxford Dictionaries come up with a ‘Word of the Year.’ I’m not sure if the adjudication panel hold a reality-style word-off series of auditions or not, but the word of the year for 2016 is an adjective and is… POST-TRUTH ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts…
#RISE EP6: ‘J’
24 hours is all I have. Happy Birthday, Anderson. Not heard from the others for a few hours now. No contact. It’s like Crowley and his hackers have stopped the feed. Broken our connection. Whilst I can still get word out, I will. Thought I’d get a message back before now, but sad to say…
Goodreads: My Year in Books 2016
To balance your writing and reading is essential for any writer. It can be a real challenge, with too much of one and not enough of the other leading to a – in the style, if not the words of Dr Emmett Brown – a Transverse Imbalance in the artists Flux-Capacitor! So I settle on 40 books a…
The Great Amber Giveaway: Part II
Huge thanks for all my readers in their support of The Amber Room giveaway before Christmas, which saw the book climb into the Top 5 of its genre in the Free Download charts. So as a thank you for that, I wanted to offer everyone a chance to read the second book in the series….
Brain Feeding: A Christmas Carol
‘I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.’ Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol, Stave 4, Dec 19, 1843…
#RISE EP5: “Get the Chains”
The signal is breaking. Links unsecured. We have to meet. My message is simple. It has taken little thought. It is a consequence of where we are at. Nothing left for us to do. I wait. The replies come soon enough. Thomas. Michaela and Petra send emoji’s of agreement. Thumbs sticking up, nodding dog heads,…
The Great Amber Giveaway
Ahead of the New Year release of The Amber Moon: Shadows & Dragons, I thought it was time for a little worldwide Amber giveaway. So for the next 5 days, starting on Monday the 19th of December until Friday the 23rd, you can pick up The Amber Room on Kindle absolutely FREE, exclusively on Amazon.co.uk &…
Brain Feeding: The Hunger Games
Everyone and their dog now knows about Suzanne Collins’ amazing dystopian creation, but back in the deepest, darkest recesses of 2009/10, The Hunger Games was little more than a whisper on the lips of bookish bairns. Picture the scene, I was in the midst of my MA in Creative Writing at Portsmouth University when our tutor Sam Hawksmoor, a fine author with a bloodhound-like…
Tom Harris Writes 