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“There was nothing but broken police tape, curling round a half-open, rattling door. Her torch showed where it led. Steps, leading down beneath the structure. A basement with no connection to the main hallways.
Was it a shelter? A basement extension? A way to hide from war and Nazis, or maybe it was for atomic bombs? Cooper’s mother had traumatised her with Where The Wind Blows when she was younger, a seeming children’s cartoon film with a similar aesthetic to The Snowman. It was about an old couple trying to follow absurdly inadequate instructions in the face of nuclear annihilation.
Cooper went down into the tunnel, walking along two sets of stairs until she reached the pit.
It was cold down there.
It was full of eyes.”
Quote from CONSUMED by Greg Buchanan (out now from @orionbooks)
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“There was a great tree in the paddock’s centre, an apple tree.
The pigs screamed, trampling against each other, their cries undercut, punctuated by a chorus of grunts.
There were tufts of human hair everywhere. There was blood, not red in that dark, not any colour at all.
The final words that this human would ever say in this place were whispered in the darkness: ‘flowers, passing’.
The seed had sprouted.
Seventy years vanished within stomachs. Fingers danced within acid.
The woman’s mind was divided across her porcine companions as they ate pieces of skin, of organs, of bone. That was all that became of her life, of all those years, of her death.
That was what became of Sophie Bertilak, over seventy years old that year. Just a mile or two from orbs of mistletoe in the trees, from a lake in the woods, from loose soil where a pipe had once been placed, from where she had taken her photos on her birthday, so many decades ago.
You had to be careful, the night the power died…
Everyone soon found out what had happened to Sophie, once morning came. Everyone knew.
It was no accident.”
Quote from the first chapter of CONSUMED by Greg Buchanan (out now from @orionbooks)
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The victim of CONSUMED, Sophie Bertilk, was discovered eaten by her pigs. The novel tells the story of how Sophie hunted down the answers to a mystery throughout the decades, and how in the present day forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen ends up drawn into that same journey. The two cooperating almost across the years, one dead and one alive, both seeking answers to the fate of those missing kids...
CONSUMED by Greg Buchanan, out now from @orionbooks
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I think it’s partly why we respond to true crime so much: it’s the fact of their eerie, terrifying incompleteness and mysteries that were too much for their investigators to handle
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Cooper Allen is a protagonist in both Sixteen Horses and Consumed + will soon be starring in a TV show from the makers of Hannibal and Narcos. A veterinary forensics expert, Cooper works on cases that involve animals - whether the victims (Sixteen Horses) or otherwise caught up in the case (Consumed). Passionate to the point of obsession, Cooper’s past and inner emotional life are often a mystery to coworkers and readers alike. Having spent so long building a life (a job as a vet surgeon, a long term boyfriend, two cats, friends) - at some point she left it all behind, and is now profoundly lonely and pushing people away in equal measure. In LETHWICK, the setting of Consumed, Cooper is in town to meet her mother and sister after several years of distance - and somehow, on her very first night, makes a new friend who might have the potential to be something more. Soon - as a new case begins - Cooper finds herself enmeshed in the lives of investigators, witnesses, and suspects alive. No longer wanting to leave, even as signs of danger and conspiracy begin to mount all around her…
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✨ TWISTS ✨
John Gardner once described bad twists as being the literary equivalent of hiding behind a bush and jumping out to hit the reader with a stick.
Here are some ways to think about twists as more emotional and intentional - plenty more to say, so do share your thoughts in the comments and I’ll get back to you!
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Elvanse has helped but dear god do I want to burst into writing sometimes at social events. I even try and Sherlock Mind Palace some ideas as if that’s a thing that works as opposed to a Golgotha of lost and broken ideas 🫠🥲
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✨Description ✨
A lot of authors struggle with description when they get started - I really know I did! - and I was really able to improve what I was doing to the point where it’s one of the main things reviewers talk about when they discuss my work.
The central, deceptively complex question is: how to make it interesting not just to the reader, but for you to write about? How do you trick your brain into coming up with something that engages our strongest emotional drives?
Well, there’s a shortcut to getting started that I often use — this video sets it up in brief, though let me know in the comments if you have any questions or need any furhter help!
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CONSUMED out today in the UK in all good bookstores! Here’s part one of an interview with BBC Radio Scotland
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Oh that TikTok filter looks fun, let me see what my cat would look like as Barbie; and - oh - oh no -
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#authors #canonevent: saying a new word for the first time…
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Hoping to find these little guys a loving home 🥹
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Signing at @waterstones.argylestreet for #CONSUMED @orionbooks and thought about a mistake I made that probably makes it ridiculously easy to become a fake version of me! 😅
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My ragdoll cat Table, the very first day he came home. Ever since then he has helped me write my novels; and my novels have helped pay for the ludicrously expensive Puurfect Portions Tuna which is the only meal he will eat. He would rather starve, I tell you, than have anything else 😅
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