Flicker is coming!

In a broken world, lighting a match is an act of rebellion...

It's been a long time coming, my post-apocalyptic novel first started during the covid lockdowns here in France, and after setting it aside, revisiting it, and tweaking it, over and over again, it's almost ready to be unleashed. Those of you who have been reading my work for some time (thank you, loyal fans) will know that I've always had a predilection for the short story. But this novel, set in a ruined world, is a story that requires a grander scale, with worldbuilding, a large cast of characters, epic battle scenes, and plenty of fire. The final draft clocks in at over 100,000 words and is receiving the final spit and polish...but don't worry, a suitable layer of grit and grime will be kept. It will be published through Black Beacon Books on November the 11th. The cover design is in the final stages of preparation and will be revealed as soon as the paperback proof gets the green light. A Kindle pre-order deal will then be set up.

Has that got you fired up? Are you ready to join Flicker and Flame in a fight to survive against the odds in a post-apocalyptic world?

About Flicker:

This is the story of Flicker, a pyromaniac whose only escape from the emptiness and oppression of life in a post-apocalyptic world is to set fire to luxury automobiles. Armed with a hammer and jerry can, he wages a one-man war against the Overclass, partisans of the failing regime struggling to hold the reins since The Breakdown decades earlier. He can’t remember his family, and his friends have disappeared without a trace. His only companion is fire, that mesmerising force of glorious destruction. It alone gives meaning to his existence...but one night, he goes too far and unwittingly chooses a target best left alone. As tracker drones swarm, he finds himself running for his life, and a chance encounter with a kindred spirit changes his fate. They flee the city and venture into the wilderness beyond the ring road for the first time. Out there in the abandoned countryside, they will discover new communities, make new friends and enemies, and ultimately find themselves...and they will seek the answer to that terrible question: What is happening at the regime’s dreaded seaside resort, The Esplanade? In a world without hope, can deliverance from tyranny be found in the head of a matchstick?

Flicker is a tale of survival against the odds in a brutal world, of loss and self-discovery, and of love and solidarity, but most of all, it's a story about fire, that double-edged sword that both cleanses and destroys.