This month, J.A. Rock and I have another book coming out. I’m so excited for this one. I really like it. Okay, that sounds weird. I’m proud of everything I’ve published, but WHEN ALL THE WORLD SLEEPS feels like it’s more than the sum of its parts. It’s definitely a better book than I could have written on my own, and I hope JA feels the same.

Daniel and Bel feel among the most real characters that we’ve written, and there’s a thread of melancholy that runs through WAtWS that still catches me by surprise. Ooh, I like that, I found myself thinking a lot during the edits, then hoping it was for a part J.A. had written so I wasn’t being egotistical.

That was another fun thing about this book. I don’t really remember which bits I wrote and which bits J.A. wrote. Maybe we’ve finally developed some kind of a hive mind. Whatever the case, this is a book that I’m incredibly proud of, and, if you read it, I hope you like it. 

Closer to the release day – MARCH 24, or MARCH 22 if you preorder from Riptide – we’ll be doing a blog tour with prizes and stuff, but in the meantime, here’s the blurb, and the gorgeously creepy cover:

Daniel Whitlock is terrified of going to sleep. And rightly so: he sleepwalks, with no awareness or memory of his actions. Including burning down Kenny Cooper’s house—with Kenny inside it—after Kenny brutally beat him for being gay. Back in the tiny town of Logan after serving his prison sentence, Daniel isolates himself in a cabin in the woods and chains himself to his bed at night.

Like the rest of Logan, local cop Joe Belman doesn’t believe Daniel’s absurd defense. But when Bel saves Daniel from a retaliatory fire, he discovers that Daniel might not be what everyone thinks: killer, liar, tweaker, freak. Bel agrees to control Daniel at night—for the sake of the other townsfolk. Daniel’s fascinating, but Bel’s not going there.

Yet as he’s drawn further into Daniel’s dark world, Bel finds that he likes being in charge. And submitting to Bel gives Daniel the only peace he’s ever known. But Daniel’s demons won’t leave him alone, and he’ll need Bel’s help to slay them once and for all—assuming Bel is willing to risk everything to stand by him.