19/12/2023
Four projects in progress for 2024. So I can talk about them more freely, some code names for those interested in following. Some prose, game, and TTRPG stuff in the mix…
Nyx, Glass, Noir, Helm
Veterinary Noir - The Forensic Casebook of Cooper Allen
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Veterinary Noir :: SIXTEEN HORSES / CONSUMED ::
Novels by www.facebook.com/gregbuchananwriter
29/09/2023
One thing that would really help me and leave me in your eternal debt!:
If you read and enjoyed CONSUMED - if you leave a review/rating on Amazon and other sites, it really helps the algorithm!
Consumed eBook : Buchanan, Greg: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
18/09/2023
An introductory post as lots of new readers today:
Hi, I'm Greg Buchanan - BAFTA-longlisted author of the bestselling dark thrillers SIXTEEN HORSES and CONSUMED, starring veterinary surgeon-turned-detective: Dr. Cooper Allen. This page is what you need to follow for updates about new stories, releases, events, and causes related to the character.
The premise is this:
Thriller tales about the veterinary field that draw on the current realities of being a vet, rather than over-idealised depictions from generations past or the overly reality-TV-filled landscape of the present day. These are dark mystery stories about the way we treat animals as a society, the way we treat vets, and the way we live our lives. Gallows humour, the thrill and pain of facing down darkness, and elaborate mysteries await along the way, with a gothic crime atmosphere verging on horror...
SIXTEEN HORSES (2021) was Waterstones Thriller of the Month, a Paperback of the Year, BBC Two Between the Covers selection, and was longlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger award. Both SIXTEEN HORSES and the Amazon bestselling CONSUMED (2023) can be read in any sequence. A TV adaptation of Cooper's story, produced by Gaumont Television (Hannibal, Narcos), is currently in development.
In addition to the above, I write short stories about this character - one of which can be found in the Waterstones exclusive paperback of SIXTEEN HORSES (about Cooper's first year at vet school) and more of which will be announced on this page soon, so stay in touch! Early followers of this page will also receive some free content in the near future.
And... if you're still reading this... a little more about myself, the author:
A former bookseller and farm worker, Irish and Scottish, I live in the lowlands with my wife and two cats, working as a novelist, teacher, and game developer in addition to my volunteer behaviourist work with the charity Cats Protection. I am passionate about mental health and animal rescue.
Please get in touch to let me know how you find my work, how life is going for you, and what kinds of stories you are looking forward to in future! I'm available on this profile and my others below -- and if I don't answer, it's because I'm deep at work on my next stories (or, indeed, potentially covered in cats demanding food and attention...)
To follow my other profiles -- Facebook/Instagram/Threads/Tiktok: | Twitter/X:
18/09/2023
The vet surgeon starring, bestselling literary mystery novel CONSUMED is a Kindle 99p deal today!
The premise: in 1968, two children disappear in the woods. In the present day, the last witness to that disappearance is found dead - eaten by pigs - with all the photographs in her home now missing from their frames...
Dr Cooper Allen is called in for the post-mortem on the animals -- but soon finds herself drawn into a frightening conspiracy...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Consumed-Greg-Buchanan-ebook/dp/B0BVJ6GPHB
Consumed eBook : Buchanan, Greg: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
17/09/2023
A reading from the most recent Cooper story, CONSUMED, at Bloody Scotland.
After a war photographer is found dead, eaten by her pigs, the question is raised: was is an accidental collapse, or something more? Child abductions from the 1960s haunted the dead photographer's life after she ended up catching one of the missing on a camera shot by accident... a mystery that turns out to have surprising relevance in the case of her own death, all those decades later...
07/09/2023
Are you (or do you know) a veterinary professional (surgeon/nurse/anyone who works with animals) who has read SIXTEEN HORSES or CONSUMED? Or who is interested in doing so? Super interested in talking to you if so! Let me know
18/07/2023
I’ve been working at my desk for hours and when he popped his head out I almost shat myself, no idea he was right next to me! 😂
17/07/2023
Talking on my Discord server about working on major IPs that got canned 🌝
15/07/2023
If you go down to today you are sure for a big surprise (or indeed, in many stores including the amazing pictured here, you will find early copies of !)
It’s really strange releasing novels and stories. For me, the work on this finished ages ago to the point where my mind is now far more caught up in book 3 and other tales. in traditional publishing, a lot of the process at this point is far more down to amazing collaborators at publishers, agencies, and booksellers than me. I really hope people who enjoy my work try out new releases like this, that they love it, that they recommend to new readers. So I’ll share snippets of writing on here and other details hoping that they will intrigue people - but there’s so much stuff out there, isn’t there, and I have plenty of stuff I see and think oh great I’ll give that a go! And months pass and I completely forget! The problem is, early sales matter a huge amount in the momentum for novels - so I need to think of how to help other creators and commit to getting things earlier in the process, but it’s just Time, isn’t it! Too little of it to try what we already love, let alone new things.
And I do think that with Consumed and my previous novel that I am doing something reasonably new. I love cozy crime and the mechanisms of police procedural but these are far darker and messier than those types of stories. They take a lot from Ancient Greek ideas of tragedy and downfall and obsession — they draw from the idea of something being sick in an individual being reflected in sickness in a whole community, and are full of all kinds of anxieties we probably all share lurking in every corner, bizarre weather from a broken climate, the mechanisms of modern society just falling apart.
It invokes love or hate or both in many readers and I think that’s inevitable for trying something new - the ?!?! sentiment I see in one and five star reviews alike! I hope you try it and let me know what you think - it would genuinely mean the world to me. At their core, they’re emotional stories from my heart - which all stories should be.
14/07/2023
Staying at a hotel
13/07/2023
First conference type thing since the pandemic. Great catching up with friends + had some meetings about some fantasy and horror game projects. Also did a bunch of book 3 work by the sea.
I do want to release stories more often if I can - short stories and short games especially. Engaging more directly with my readers and players alongside my existing work. I love my collaborations but there’s something incredibly energising about just getting stuff out there into the world directly.
Are there any writers or creators you follow online who release short bursts of story like this? The main example I can think of is comics, and although I love creating those art is very expensive and you reaaally don’t want to see my drawing skills 😅 whenever I see most writers doing short stories online they just seem to sink into oblivion - I was talking with people at this conference about how little time everyone has and how even short bursts of content can struggle for attention. Free stuff especially bizarrely even if everything else the writer does is premium and charged for. Would love to know what like this has risen above the tide for you! If I were to put short fiction online, what lengths would you be most likely to read? What venue for finding it would most likely hit your attention? Etc. I write for myself and I write for all of you, so always great to know what you want as well!
13/07/2023
New book, new haircut
12/07/2023
Really looking forward to the blog tour and hearing what everyone thinks! It's my first time with one of these and lovely to see some familiar faces involved. Make sure to follow their accounts!
08/07/2023
Finished arranging a mini bookcase in my dining room with this little guy’s help. Lots of other books in overflow in my office 😱
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06/07/2023
I'm on Threads as Greg Buchanan - Writer of dark tales of crime and dread — https://bit.ly/3PMyRBm
05/07/2023
Creating our own armchair desk is coming along nicely. We just filled the edges with wood filler, sanded them, now onto staining the wood! I'll then be varnishing and attaching some wrist supports/other grips to it so we can store it vertically. More later...
05/07/2023
July 4th was for celebrating...
this little guy's birthday!
Happy birthday Bucket! 🥰 🎁 🎉
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04/07/2023
Today is the day I finally organise my damn . The key I think is maybe all this warhammer stuff should not mean that I have giant piles of books on my floor 😅 time for a plastic box for scenery 🥲
04/07/2023
So allows you to merge DM inboxes for Whatsapp, Twitter, Insta, Linkedin, Discord, Slack & more. So so good for ADHD avoiding distraction/noise! I have hacked control of other apps into it (ToDoIst, Obsidian, stock checking, reminders, social posting). It's working!
03/07/2023
My order from https://bit.ly/43epltE arrived from - nothing better than indie books 🥰
- Gig Economy
- The Book of Gaub
- The Vast in the Dark
- Transmission for Them (v interested in solo journaling lately)
annnd a journal!
03/07/2023
Join us at Harrogate Crime Writing Festival on July 21st to delve into some crime fiction secrets 😱 🖤
If you bring a copy of or (out the day before, available at show), I will also have some festival-exclusive freebie swag to hand out afterwards... 📚 ✨
Book tickets here: https://bit.ly/3XyYYNP
02/07/2023
A finished hardcover copy of my next novel (July 20) - so exciting to get this in the post 🥰📚
02/07/2023
The final quote from a week of seven:
My upcoming crime novel, (July 20)
D̶̫̄Ỏ̵͖N̴̡͠'̶̻͊T̶̙̏ ̴̰̂T̷͇̒R̵̡̅Ȗ̸̬S̷̻̐T̴̰̽ ̷̯͂T̵̰̿H̶̲͆E̸̺͛M̶̳͋.̵̪̕ ̸͖̌T̵̬̎H̶̠͝Ȅ̶̘Ỷ̴̺ ̴̮̀Ṉ̷͘Ȅ̶̫V̷̠̽Ë̸̻Ṙ̵̟ ̵̧́S̵͙̐T̶̯͝O̷̰͛P̶̣̓P̸̫̀E̶̛͔D̶̼̄ ̷̦̕W̸̯͝A̶̤͊Ț̴͋C̴̞̽H̷̭̾I̶̩̅N̶͚͒G̵̢̀ ̵͕̓Y̴̯̒O̵̱͆U̷̱͒.̷̺͝
01/07/2023
A week of seven quotes from my upcoming crime novel, (July 20)
D̶̫̄Ỏ̵͖N̴̡͠'̶̻͊T̶̙̏ ̴̰̂T̷͇̒R̵̡̅Ȗ̸̬S̷̻̐T̴̰̽ ̷̯͂T̵̰̿H̶̲͆E̸̺͛M̶̳͋.̵̪̕ ̸͖̌T̵̬̎H̶̠͝Ȅ̶̘Ỷ̴̺ ̴̮̀Ṉ̷͘Ȅ̶̫V̷̠̽Ë̸̻Ṙ̵̟ ̵̧́S̵͙̐T̶̯͝O̷̰͛P̶̣̓P̸̫̀E̶̛͔D̶̼̄ ̷̦̕W̸̯͝A̶̤͊Ț̴͋C̴̞̽H̷̭̾I̶̩̅N̶͚͒G̵̢̀ ̵͕̓Y̴̯̒O̵̱͆U̷̱͒.̷̺͝
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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) #bookstagram #thrillerbooks #bookquotes
“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) #thrillerbooks #bookstagram #bookquotes
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 #bookstagram #thrillerbooks #consumed #sixteenhorses #gregbuchanan
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 #bookstagram #troperecs #thrillerbooks #crimefiction #truecrimebooks #horrorstories #gregbuchanan #sixteenhorses #consumed
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… #bookstagram #crimefiction #thrillerbooks #authorsofinstagram #lgbtbooks #SixteenHorses #consumed #gregbuchanan #bookish #veterinary
✨ 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! #writingtips #authoradvice #authorsofinstagram #writingcommunit #writingprompts #bookish #GregBuchanan #SixteenHorses #Consumed
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 🫠🥲 #authorsofinstagram #writerlife #writerscommunity #adhd
✨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! #writingtips #authoradvice #authorsofinstagram #writingcommunity #vividimagery #writingprompts #writingtips #bookish #GregBuchanan #SixteenHorses #Consumed
CONSUMED out today in the UK in all good bookstores! Here’s part one of an interview with BBC Radio Scotland #bookstagramuk #authorsofinstagram #interview #writingadvice #sixteenhorses #Consumed #crimefiction #thrillerbooks #glasgow #scotland #booklaunch
Oh that TikTok filter looks fun, let me see what my cat would look like as Barbie; and - oh - oh no - #ragdoll #ragdollcat #barbie #barbiegirl #authorsofinstagram #authorpets #authorcats
#authors #canonevent: saying a new word for the first time… #bookstagram #bookstagramuk #thrillerbooks #crimefiction #mispronouncingwords
Hoping to find these little guys a loving home 🥹 #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram #authors #books #consumed #sixteenhorses #thrillerbooks #crimefiction
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! 😅 #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #GothicLiterature #scarystories #CrimeFiction #bookworm #sixteenhorses
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 😅 #CatLove #FelineFriends #ragdollcat #authorcats #bucketandtable 🐈🐈⬛ #ragdoll #ragdollkitten #bookstagram
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