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Be Still My Unbeating Heart
Love sucks
August 2026
"Sank its fangs into me from page one...and honestly? I'd let it bite again"
— Chip Pons,
author of Winging it With You
"Sexy vampires are back—and they're gay, darling!"
— Courtney Smyth,
author of The Undetectables
"Big-hearted, campy and unapologetically queer. The most fun I've had with a vampire in ages"
— Lindy Ryan,
author of Bless Your Heart
ABOUT
Josh Winning writes popcorn fantasy and horror novels that are full of heart, hope and humour, with a love for 80s movie puppets, 90s slasher flicks and gay Final Girls. He identifies as queer, and believes in the power of positive representation. After growing up in a small Suffolk town and struggling to find LGBTQIA+ characters to relate to, he now writes books filled with queer joy.
Josh has worked as a film journalist for Radio Times and Total Film, interviewing the likes of Miss Piggy and Goldie Hawn, and he is co-host of the Charmed Chat podcast. His books include The Shadow Glass, Burn the Negative (which was long-listed for a Bram Stoker Award), Heads Will Roll, and Be Still My Unbeating Heart. He lives in East Anglia with his partner and their talking cat Penny.
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IN THE PRESS
“Burn the Negative is a creepy, twisty, compulsively readable haunted house of a book.
Be sure to make the popcorn
and dim the lights.”
PAUL TREMBLAY,
author of A Head Full of Ghosts
