The Game, my debut novel, takes the well-worn trope of the ‘death game’ and twists it into a murky exploration of exploitation and audience expectations. In it, total strangers are forced to compete with one another in increasingly violent circumstances to save the lives of their abducted loved ones. There can only be one winner, and to lose The Game is to lose the person you cherish most.
To celebrate the launch of in paperback, has invited me to come up with something that you can play along with yourselves… Kind of. This is The Word Game, and it mirrors my own writing process from start to completion. You may follow these instructions to pen a story of your own, but player beware: the path to finishing a piece of writing is long, arduous and filled with fatal distractions that can be the difference between completed manuscript and permanent desk drawer clutter. I should know, as I have several