I rebuilt my website from scratch. The whole thing. Over a weekend. Because apparently that's what I do now instead of writing novels.
The old WordPress site served me well for years, but it was starting to feel like that drawer in your kitchen — the one stuffed with takeaway menus, dead batteries, and a charger for a phone you haven't owned since 2019. Functional, technically, but not something you'd show to Netflix.
So I burned it down and started over.
The new site is completely custom. No WordPress, no themes, no plugins begging to be updated. Just static HTML, hosted on Cloudflare, deploying in thirty seconds flat. It's fast, it's clean, and it doesn't try to sell you a premium subscription every time you log in.
Here's what's on it:
Cold Heart October — the upcoming novel has its own immersive world. Think band website meets literary fiction. There's a full discography, band photos, a Rolling Stone review, and lyrics. Because the band is real, obviously.
Toby Steele — classified dossiers, an animated timestamp that cycles through all six planned book titles, and a section about The Department that's designed to make you slightly uncomfortable.
Need a Little ... — a twinkling night sky, a tower block with a spiral staircase that shouldn't exist, and a teaser for the upcoming serialised continuation: Need a Little Reboot.
Significant Other Machine — the book, a portrait video trailer, and a teaser for the Soul Reaper card game that lives inside the novel. Kickstarter coming soon.
System Restored — retro arcade aesthetic with pixel art spaceships chasing each other across a starfield, floating health hearts, CRT scanlines, and an INSERT COIN hero. It's ridiculous and I love it.
Remember Me ... — an atmospheric teaser for the two-book series coming later this year. Memory particles. A fading love interest. A perfume bottle named after a poison. Very mysterious.
SIMBORN — a generation ship, a post-human species, and a 300-year journey to a new world. Three covers. One haunting line. I'll say no more.
There's also a blog (you're reading it), a podcast section, a contact page in case Netflix finally calls, and two free short stories if you join the newsletter.
Every book. Every series. Every weird fictional universe I've built over the last eight years — all in one place, all looking like it belongs together.
Have a browse. Tell me what you think.
Adam