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May 2012 - Thank you to all those who have bought or ordered The Repossession and for the great reviews. (sample here) Thanks too for the emails and notes of support from as far away as Australia and Canada. *The sequel 'The Hunting' will be out in August. (Available to pre-order now on Amazon) Watch the Trailer - See the Charlie Dickinson review or Evie Seo's amazing response 'The Repossession... will blow your mind and keep you guessing until the very end'. A Dream of Books (SJH) This May finds me trying to buy a house in Lincolnshire. It's the slowest process in the world. But Lincolnshire has it's own charms and a market town at the base of the Wolds can't be all bad. The house is right on the river - fools rush in comes to mind... As you can see from the picture by W Radclyffe little has changed in hundreds of years. Englands market towns perhaps have less smocks and horses but it has survived remarkably intact over the centuries and the Spire still dominates the skyline. June 9th I'll be at St Pauls in Clapham with CWISL at the Book Fair. Come see us and buy some books On June 23rd I'll be with Sam Hawksmoor at the Winchester Writers Conference giving a talk about Science Fiction - see you there.

'An engaging, unusual, completely engrossing read' - Beverly Birch author of 'Rift' Print and e-book Lulu 25% off

If you like a rich character driven quirky novel to read - Mean Tide is a personal haunting with a difference set in Greenwhich on the River Thames. Mean Tide by Sam North (Young Teen) 'Extraordinary novel about a child's psychic awakening' ISBN: 978-1-4092-0354-4 Print and e-book http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/mean-tide/15665337 Kids can survive anything, they say. Oliver, aged twelve, has a missing father in Africa, his mother has had a breakdown, and he is recovering from chemo. He is sent to live with his only relative. On a foggy day, one bald boy, with his cat, Flop, arrives at his Grandma's house at the water's edge in Greenwich. Oliver discovers to his horror that his Grandma, a famous psychic, hates cats. Her housekeeper, Lena loathes kids, and silent Justine seems to hate everyone. Add crazy Harriet, who has seen every fortune teller in London; Aura, a mysterious, aspiring beautiful actress and Bullet, the homeless kid with a very mean streak, trouble can't be far behind. When Oliver and Justine find a beautiful dog with it's throat cut washed up on the riverbank, Oliver feels a strange connection to this dead animal and so begins his own induction into a psychic world. All my Sam North novels now e-books. Available on Lulu.com or on iTunes Download here or Here for starters

Read Hackwriters International Writers Magazine - Now in it's 13th Year - Travel - Fiction - Comment - Reviews Since 1999 Sam has been running the on-line magazine Hackwriters.com a site for international writers in all subject areas. It continues as a place for new and 'experienced' writers to showcase their work. As of writing there are 6900+ articles posted on site and it as archived by the British Library for the digital web archive - 13th Year on-line

Thanks to all who have been ordering my Sam North books recently, particularly the flu pandemic novel 'Another Place to Die' - much appreciated. Spread the word. Now available as an e-book as well as print. 'Swine Flu infected almost every country on earth but it 'only' killed just over 18,000 people. Bad luck for those who died, but good luck for us it was such a benign virus. But there is a virus coming, something bubbling up, awaiting the right circumstances. Swine Flu was just 'practice'. When it comes - we will be so blasé about it we won't even take it seriously. That's the danger of a benign virus, we think we can handle it. We wont. You are warned. Read 'Another Place to Die' and prepare yourself for the worst...' 3100 sold so far and rising. Please note you also can buy my Sherlock Holmes novel The Curse of the Nibelung as an e-book direct from iTunes now or from Barnes and Noble and Amazon of course.

This update May 2012 - find The Repossession by Sam Hawksmoor - print and on iTunes

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