Joe Rey: Growing Old Disgracefully

“The sea looks grey and inhospitable, as breakers hit the beach, frothing and fading on the dark sand. Somewhere across town a prowl car siren wails. At least someone is having a worse fucking day than us.”

The new cover of Slop Shop helped to shift a few units last month, so I thought I’d overhaul a couple more of my least favourite e-book covers: Slab Rats and Skeleton Crew.

Looking at them side by side, I like the way Slab Rats depicts a young, lean 20-something Joe Rey and Skeleton Crew depicts a grizzled 40-something ex-con Rey, complete with scruffy beard and prison muscle!

As regular readers will know, there are a few key (oft-referenced) Joe Rey storylines that haven’t actually made it into print yet, so I’m aiming to fill in the blanks this year. Watch this space!

In the meantime, you can check out the new e-book covers here (UK) and here (US).

(Note: if you bought them the first time round, the covers should automatically update on your Kindle.)

Sloppy Seconds!

The man wipes the condensation off the cracked mirror with the threadbare sleeve of his sanitarium-issue sweatshirt. It’s a bitterly cold day and he tries to massage some feeling into his hideous, rubbery face. A face that only a motherfucker could love. A visage that was clumsily stapled back together after it was disfigured with a meat axe in an abandoned factory three years ago.

Free for Kindle readers all weekend, my 2020 book: SLOP SHOP! It has been refreshed with a brand new cover to complement my new book, THE DAMAGE MANUAL.

(Note: if you bought it first time round the cover should update automatically on your device!)

UK Link

US Link

While you are browsing on Amazon, why not check out The Damage Manual and the Hunger anthology from Urban Pigs Press. Here’s what the books look like in real life:

The Damage Manual

Hunger