New Ebook Editions on Kindle

Underwood and Flinch the ebook - now available publicly for the first time as a complete and undivided text. Plus, for the first time in any format, Underwood and Flinch: Blood and Smoke. Lovely 😀

Underwood and Flinch: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0821BMY8B

Blood and Smoke: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081M46MV6

Dracula Chapter 12 - Complete and Unabridged. Free Podcast

Chapter 12 of Bram Stoker's classic gothic masterpiece is now available in my public podcast feed, so drop everything and get your ears on! Fangtastic!!

U&F Underground 42 / Dracula Chapter 10

Two new podcasts out this week. In my public feed you can hear my reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Chapter 10. If you're not subscribed, you can do so by adding this link to your podcast app: http://mikebennett.libsyn.com/rss  

Also, at Patreon, I've just posted Underwood and Flinch: Underground Episode 42.  I say! That's 42 episodes of UFU for just $3! That's the cheapest big audio book you'll see this month, I'm sure. 

The beginning of the month is the best time to sign up to Patreon, as you can enjoy a whole month of listening for just $3. And if, at the end of the month, you decide you want to opt out and not pay for another month, you can! But why would you want to? U&F Underground is still in progress, and I guarantee you won't want to leave. Sign up today, and when you do, be sure and make a note of your personal RSS code and add it to your podcast app. That way you can get the podcasts streaming straight to your phone with no fuss.

Huzzah!!

Glitterballs Reaches Episode 5 at Patreon

Glitterballs, my situation comedy written for TV (that those fools at the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 turned down back in 1996) now reaches its fifth podcast episode at Patreon.com.

In this latest episode live music promoter Tom finds himself stranded alone in a snowstorm with the secret love of his life - Dave's mum. An episode that oozes sexual tension ... sort of, Glitterballs 5: Snowbound is available now at Patreon for patrons at the $1 a month level and over. And if you bump that up to $3 a month, you can access 42 episodes of the ongoing Underwood and Flinch podcast adventure, Underground. Get in!

"Glitterballs is probably the funniest unproduced '90s TV sitcom about a live music venue ever podcast. Hilarious!" 
Mike Bennett, author of Glitterballs.

After the Plague Begins in My Podcast Feed.

Hi there! Yes, many of you will have heard it already, but many won't have. And so I'm going to start podcasting my zombie apocalypse story, After the Plague, into my public podcast feed. 

If you have heard it, you can listen again (it stands up to a second listen) and you haven't then be warned, listener discretion is advised on this one; in an apocalypse, people can be rather unpleasant.

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After the Plague ep 1

After the Plague ep 2

MB featured on Ken Scott's Website.

Author, Ken Scott, has just published a great piece on his recent discovery of my work. It's a big deal for me when another author digs any of my books, and Ken is not only a very prolific writer (he's written or collaborated on 25 books, several of which have reached the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller List) but he's also a professional writing coach. Pretty cool eh? 

Yule Among the Sleepless

It's Christmas at Patreon! I'm writing and podcasting a return to the world of One Among the Sleepless. Not a sequel, and definitely not a novel, but simply a chance to catch up with some of the surviving characters and find out what they did next. 

Episode One of the Yule Among the Sleepless podcast is available now, exclusively at Patreon, for patrons paying $1 a month and up.

Huzzah!!

Glitterballs 3 at Patreon

If you're a Patreon patron, I've just posted the complete episode of Glitterballs Ep 3: "Pants: 5 Degrees Centigrade". It's 57-minutes long and full of Nineties music venue goodness. Check your podcast app now, or click here for a direct download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15248003

Underground Episode 31 at Patreon

The latest episode of Underwood and Flinch: Underground is now available from Patreon.com for patrons at the $3 per month and over categories.

Sign up and get straight into 31 episodes of Underground today. Patreon will give you a personal RSS feed that you can - nay - really should - add to your podcast app. This will then deliver the podcasts straight to your phone ... or whatever else you use to listen to podcasts. 

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Chapter Two

Something for the weekend! Episode Two, Chapter Two, of Bram Stoker's vampire classic. 

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Bram Stoker's Dracula. Chapter One.

I'm returning to free podcasting with the first chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula. I've been reading it at Patreon for a while where I'm now up to Chapter Ten.

I hope to get some other stuff out to you as well as Dracula in the coming weeks and months, but for now, click the player below to play Chapter One, and click here to add my RSS feed to your podcast app and get new episodes as soon as they go live.

Join the Night Crossing graphic novel launch on Twitter!

Today I'll be Skyping into a Colorado Springs comic book store to appear at the release of the Night Crossing graphic novel organised by the book's illustrator and creator, Amanda Whipp.

The event will be available to view live on Twitter from store via Amanda's Twitter. Just follow @awhipp56 and join at 1pm Colorado time (MDT), 12pm in LA, 3pm in NY, 8pm in the UK, and 5am for any insomniacs in Australia. 

There's a Facebook event that you can declare your bold intention to attend (online or physically) here. I hope you can join us!

Something for the Weekend May 14th 2016

The latest episode of the Something for the Weekend podcast, in which Mike chats with Brian Roberts from the Wexworlds festival about Dr Who, comic books, superhero tv / movie adaptations, and other nerd-centric topics.

Mike Bennett at Twitter: @TheMikeBennett

Brian Roberts at Twitter: @8BitBrian

Wexworlds Festival at Twitter: @wexworlds

30 Seconds (Irish board game)

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Something for the Weekend - Mike Bennett at Wexworlds

So, I had that live reading at Wexworlds in Ireland on Saturday. It was a great event and a good time was had by all. My reading went well - and here's your chance to get your ears round it in this live recording. I read the pilot U&F story, Night Crossing, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. I hope you do too.

"I told you to read Hair and Skin, rebel scum!"

With Brian from Wexworlds and illustrator, Ben Hennessy

Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft

Something for the weekend? How about H.P. Lovecraft's Cool Air?

In this episode I also talk about my forthcoming public appearance at the Wexworlds Festival in Wexford, Ireland on Saturday May 7th. Be there or be ... well, probably on the other side of the Atlantic or the Irish Sea, but still, be there in spirit. Maybe we can work out a way of streaming it or something. I'll look into it.

Underwood and Flinch in the Audible Store!

At last! Underwood and Flinch: Disturbing the Devil is available from the Amazon Audible Store, and from iTunes.

Having processed the audio file to Audible specifications about two weeks ago, I just got the notification email through today. I'm delighted to finally see my stuff in the Audible store. Here's hoping it's the start of something exciting ... or at least something interesting ... though I'd settle for something awesome. Huzzah!!!

Blood and Smoke - Complete and Musically Restored

Underwood and Flinch: Blood and Smoke is now available in its complete and musically restored form from Podiobooks.com

My thanks - as always - to my wonderful sponsors at Patreon, without whom this book would have stalled at Episode 6, and U&F Underground would never have even got started. I unleash the bunnies of joy to share my feelings ...

"Patreon Sponsors - YAY!!!"

The Colour out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft: Episode One

Hello there. I've been in Ireland this week visiting friends and family. I had a very nice time - so much so I managed to break my glasses. Not quite sure how it happened, but my suspicions rest on the pet of one of the families we visited; a dog who enjoys chewing stuff - shoes and glasses being among his favourite snacks. Since I couldn't interrogate him sensibly, I gave the suspect hound a hard stare, but he remained inscrutable, giving only the odd woof, and licking my face cheerfully (perhaps wondering where the specs had gone?). 

But then again, there was wine going around, so maybe I sat on them. It's a mystery.

Anyway, upon my return to England, I superglued the specs together long enough for me to record the first episode of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour out of Space, then they blew apart under the pressure of all the cosmic horror. If you don't know the story, trust me, it's a cracker; a little slow to get rolling, but definitely one of HPL's best.

The story is currently a Patreon exclusive for everyone at $1 a month and over. And for anyone who's not signed up to support me at Patreon, it'll be in my regular podcast feed later on this year. But why wait? One buck a month - it's less than a Mars Bar! You know you want it ... Get the Colour out of Space Episode 1 right now.

Reanimator Concludes at Patreon

Patreon Newsflash

After a jolly bank holiday weekend (see pics here at Instagram) I'm back at work on the podcasts. It's been a busy morning of putting together the final audio of Herbert West: Reanimator Part 6 for the $1 and over patrons.

Artwork by Jon Cape

There will also be a full-length version of the story with all episodes in one recording posted on Patreon on Friday for $5 and over patrons. I did this already, but had to delete it because I'd accidentally included a rejected version of Episode 3 in it that even had a live mistake still in the mix. Oh, the shame.

Reanimator Part 5. Now on Patreon.

Calling Patreon Peeps! Don't lose your head, but Herbert West: Reanimator, Part 5 is now uploaded and ready for your ears. Click here to go straight to it (and remember to click the orange musical note logo beneath the podcast to download).

Artwork by Jon Cape. Thanks Jon!