After writing Toxic, I still had a Nixon itch that needed scratching and had been wanting to do a book like this for some time. So, hence, The President's Exorcist. I really didn't want people to think this is an anti-Trump book or rather, just an anti-Trump book; it's a book that critiques the very nature of the White House. And, I must stress this, "critiques", not criticises, "critiques". The book wants to raise questions, not point fingers. I thought it would be fun to write a book where...

Ironic. As I build up reviews for my quintessential eighties book Presence, the book I'm still most obsessed with is the one (which currently has a one-and-a-half star rating on Goodreads) all about the Seventies. Well, Salem to Salem is about the Sixties and the Seventies. It's about trying to recreate a utopia at the expense of the people who live there. Much of our modern discourse is about trying to recreate the Sixties and the Seventies. Thing is, though, after the Eighties, things can't...

The next book I'm writing The President's Exorcist, is not about Donald Trump. Rather, it is about Richard Nixon. This book will return to themes I've explored before, such as in Salem to Salem, however it will be in the haunted house of the Seventies rather than the tail-end of the Sixties as it was in that latter-book. Compared to the Sixties, the Seventies is something of a boring, bleak decade; it is a real hangover of a decade. And what is the ultimate hangover? Of course, a ghost!