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Choose Your Own Death

Goultown. The sort of place where kids could walk down the street in the middle of the night. Or accept sweets from strangers because strangers were just friends you hadn’t met yet. A place where grown-ups got tattoos of smiley faces and if kids graffitied, they were sure to do smiley faces too.

That was before the murders began. After Sally Ellerson drowns at the chocolate factory, you know there’s something weird going on. It’s time to take charge.

Choose Your Own Death is a path-picking adventure where every wrong turn unleashes an eldritch evil. If you don’t solve the mystery soon, the next death could be yours.

(Recommended for readers 9 -13 years old. 98 pages)

It’s been over ten years since I published Choose Your Own Death. While the self-publishing part of my writing journey is over, I have many happy memories from producing this book.

I wrote Choose Your Own Death when I was a PhD student because my research had reached a dead end and I was desperately seeking a shiny, new art project to distract myself. I engaged Tara Brown, a talented artist, to design the cover and illustrations for the project.

Choose Your Own Death turned out pretty well. Ten years on, my middle-grade novella still earns royalties, especially during Halloween in the UK and Italy for some reason! You can still order a copy through some online bookshops:

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