Gary Kruse is a writer of thriller, SF & horror fiction about people on the edge of society struggling to find who they are, where they come from and where they’re going. He has won and been shortlisted for several short story competitions and his debut dark thriller novel, Badlands is an Amazon bestseller..
BADLANDS – An Amazon Bestseller
A runaway with a wounded soul searches for her sister…
While a scarred orphan with a lust for blood hunts her down…
And a man of God with a heart of darkness plots both their downfalls…
Hello! The Read Freely book of the month public vote is still open, and with only 15 votes between first and fourth place it’s anybody’s game. If you’ve voted for Badlands already, thank you so much, however if you still want to lend your support to my dark Cornish thriller, there’s still time. Click onContinue reading “Vote Now!”
Regular followers of my social media channels will know that I was back in the Badlands of North Cornwall for a couple of weeks earlier this month, and it seemed only fitting to take my book baby back to the area that inspired it. The Badlands was the nickname given to the area around St.Continue reading “Badlands in the Badlands”
I thrilled to announce that Badlands has been shortlisted for next month’s book of the month on the Read Freely website. The final selection is made by public vote. If you want to vote in support of Badlands, the link to vote is here. You’ll go through to this screen and you can access theContinue reading “Badlands News!!”
I read an article in a writer’s magazine recently that offered opposing viewpoints when it came to structure when writing. The article in question specifically examined the Save the Cat formula, which originated in screenwriting before being developed for novel writing. On one side of the argument, there was the view that formulas such asContinue reading “Notes from a Writer’s Life #17”
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