Tony Healey

From mid-June, my paranormal mystery novel The Girl Between posts here, a chapter per day.
          From the end of June, the same happens for my grimdark fantasy novel The Bloody North.
          And don't forget that my horror novel Exile Island is posting every Monday and Thursday - I have ten further chapters scheduled and nine more to write.

There is a new chapter of 'Exile Island' dropping tomorrow (Monday) and another on Thursday.

Infraction is now complete.
          Rogues is complete.
          The Girl Between and The Bloody North: Redux are coming in June.
          I am now posting a horror novel, Exile Island, a chapter or two every week.

Two new chapters posted just now. Five more to go.

Thank you to anyone who has read Infraction so far. Chapter 27 will post tomorrow (Monday) at 0600.

I originally wrote Infraction in 2018.
          Every author out there will have the same false-starts that I have in my files. Those fledgling books that never managed to survive past 10,000 or 20,000 words. The novels that were going great for months and then just fizzled out for various reasons. Who knows why some projects make it to completion while others don’t? Even the greats suffer the same issue. Stephen King attempted to write Under The Dome twice before he finally succeeded in pulling it off.
          So I wrote this in 2018 and rediscovered it in March this year (2025). I couldn’t remember finishing it, to be honest. But strangely, as I read through what was there, I knew the story. I could recall the story, just not the creation of it.
          It’s not lost on me that a lot has happened since the 2018 draft of this novel: I’ve published four westerns with Penguin Random House, self-published The Girl Between, lived through a global pandemic, had a son, been diagnosed as autistic and embarked upon my forties. What a mad rollercoaster life is, eh?
          So I approached the rewrite of this book with seven years experience under my belt and I hope that it shows somehow in the end result. Circling back to my initial point, about projects that never get finished, I happen to think that sometimes it’s because it’s just not their time. Sometimes the project has to wait for the author to catch up in some way. So as crazy as I think it is that I had this book sitting in my cloud storage, I also think it’s turned out better now, in 2025, than it would have in 2018. It was rediscovered in March, and I began posting it in May. That doesn’t sound like a lot of time . . . but trust me when I say I've worked solidly on rewriting, restructuring and reimagining every single aspect of this book in that span of time. It bears very little resemblance to the manuscript I rediscovered in March.
          I hope you'll enjoy reading along as I post the rest of this project here on Wattpad!
          Tony