NORRIS GOES WEST is released on Amazon

NORRIS GOES WEST, the sequel to SPENSER GOES NORTH has just been released onto Amazon sites around the world for anyone with one of those Kindle reading thingies to enjoy (or not, their choice). 

The street urchin of that first book takes centre stage this time as he investigates missing children on the streets of Liverpool and ends up in an adventure that will uncover a deadly threat to the British Imperial Commonwealth.

Yes, another one.

He'll find his street smarts tested, his courage stretched and his horizons forcibly expanded, but he will also face his greatest challenge yet - girls.

The hardback will be available on lulu.com as soon as I can get it formatted for that and checked.

Latest Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. short story cover revealed.

The latest of the Man From U.N.D.E.A.D short stories takes Agent Ward back to his very first case for the United Nations Department for the Enforcement and Apprehension of Demons.

Entitled THE SILENCE OF THE MIMES, it involves Ward in a case involving some mimes, the Moulin Rouge, the Orient Express and some cutlery.

Whilst the story itself goes through the rigours of beta reading, the cover has been through the rigours of, well, being argued about mostly. The naysayers, though, have been defeated and put to death in the underground piranha lake and so I can reveal the cover that will grace Agent Ward's first case.

As for a release date, well these things are trickier than a Skipper Imp, but all being well it should be out sometime within the next twenty years.

I'll be sure to put a note on the blog about it at the time, just in case anyone wants to know.


The cover's locked, by the way, so there won't be any changes made as a result of people not liking it as there were to SPENSER GOES NORTH and THEY CAME FROM BEYOND PULP. That won't stop some people not liking it, though.

THEY CAME FROM BEYOND PULP - now available for the kindle on all flavours of Amazon

Finally, after ages of agonising over cover design and the hours of formatting that these things require (for me, at least) THEY CAME FROM BEYOND PULP has finally hit Amazon stores worldwide.

Here comes the blurb

Pulp fiction (n) - tawdry tales trapped between bright and lurid covers.

In They Came From Beyond Pulp, Darren Humphries takes a stroll down the shadier side of the street in these stories of murder, mayhem and madness, all presented with an added dash of mischief that combines the two strands of pulp fiction - crime and sci-fi/fantasy.

Warning: slightly darker than my usual stuff and contains occasional bad language.

SPENSER GOES NORTH is released on Amazon Kindle

Yes, the last post showed two covers that were hugely different from this one, but the other concepts just didn't work out and so here is the latest book with an entirely different set of clothes, finally set loose on an unsuspecting world.

Or Amazon Kindle at least.

The obligatory blurb goes like this:

'Wardington-Smythe is Britain's greatest hero; gentleman adventurer, master marksman, expert fencer and all-round doer of derring. He is exactly the kind of man you want on the job when the Imperial Commonwealth faces its greatest peril.

It's a shame that he's fictional.

The task of saving the Commonwealth falls instead to Wardington-Smyth's creator, a novelist for whom adventure is changing his supplier of bacon.

Aided only by a street urchin of dubious morality, Spenser Warwick must solve the mystery of scented letters, vanishing airships and abducted ladies whilst not getting drugged in public conveniences. At least not again.

Adventure is certainly not how he imagined it.'


It's a standalone novel, but then again so was The Man From U.N.D.EA.D. and look what happened there.

UK link:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spenser-Goes-North-Darren-Humphries-ebook/dp/B00K3KH7YY/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr
US link:  http://www.amazon.com/Spenser-Goes-North-Darren-Humphries-ebook/dp/B00K3KH7YY/

SPENSER GOES NORTH cover design

SPENSER GOES NORTH is the new book that should be coming out on a kindle near you in the next couple of months. There are just some last editing, formatting and design decisions to take into consideration. Like the cover. Here are the two concepts that I have at the moment. I'm not exactly sure which of them I like the most at the moment, so please leave a comment here or on my goodreads thread . Which do you like best, or maybe you don't like either.

PENNY KILKENNY SAVES THE DAY is released

PENNY KILKENNY SAVES THE DAY, the latest book set in the world of the Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. novels has been released on the Amazon Kindle platform.

Available from today in all areas, it tells the story of the U.N.D.E.A.D. Operations Director's personal assistant as she attends the strangest school reunion there ever was.

Here's the blurb:

"When Penny Kilkenny is manipulated into attending the reunion of her year at the Madame Schopenhauer School for Exceptional Young Women, she could not possibly have imagined the dangers that she would face there - dangers that will test the very limit of her resilience and resourcefulness.

This spin off novel takes a new look at the world of the Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. and takes one of the most popular characters from those books on a thrill ride all her own.

It's a different kind of magic."

I hope that you enjoy.

One Small Step For The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. is released

October 1st marks the day that One Small Step For The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. is released to buy on Amazon's kindle.

The fourth in the series featuring Agent Ward's battle against the weird threats embattling the planet it has the following publicity blurb:

"The United Nations Department for the Enforcement and Apprehension of Demons is the first, last and only line of defence against the supernatural threats trying to break into a world where magic and technology are uneasy bedfellows.

Agent Ward is out of this world (literally) in this fourth book in the Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. series. He's facing the biggest threat ever and his most personal challenge, not to mention shapechangers with a lingerie fetish, imps that just won't keep still and giant howler demons.

The race to save reality as he knows it is on and he just might be out of time."

The title references Neil Armstrong's famous line as he stepped on the moon, but the final draft was already locked and formatted when the news came through of the astronaut's death, so a small tribute to all those who work in the field of space exploration get a dedication of thanks in the added Author's note.