Hi readers. You’ve probably seen plenty of social media posts from me recently about my upcoming release ‘The Signs Are Coming.’ I can’t believe that now’s the time I’m finally getting to prepare this book for release, and I’m delighted I’m getting so much good feedback already. I can’t wait to share it with you all, because I think you all really need to read it, and understand why this book, that I have been holding onto for years, still absolutely terrifies me.

The Signs Are Coming isn’t a horror, even though it initially started off that way. I tried to make the book as intentionally frightening as possible, but it was only when I uncovered the true plot that I realised, I didn’t need to write a frightening book when history had already presented me with a concept so frightening, that it was going to be enough on its own. It scared me how close I feel I got to something that could well have been true, given a few tweaks to history, but also about how relevant it is today. And that’s what I’m uncovering in this book. Something that’s still so relevant and prevalent in society that it needs speaking out about, before it becomes too late.

Because the real horror that lurks within this book is something that truly creeps me out, and that is religious terrorism.

I’m an atheist, I have been for many years, and I must say now that I truly respect and appreciate everyone’s right to have their own beliefs. However, for me, religion as a whole, has been something I’ve never really been able to get along with, and the extremism that can develop from it is something I’ve felt concerned about for a long time.

I saw a quote the other day from Sam Harris which, whilst about religion itself, perfectly sums up what’s I’ve felt about religious extremism for all these years:

“This to me is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.”

That’s why I need to tell you all the story in The Signs Are Coming, because in unearthing this puzzle, I realised how easily it could be for someone to be convinced to be indoctrinated in these ways, to actually believe in something that makes them become extremists. But more importantly than that, it shows how easy it is for someone to be that manipulator. How easy it is for someone to convince others to follow them and believe in something, to make them fearful if they don’t. Like that quote says, it allows rationality to go out the window.

And it’s even scarier when rational people are the ones inciting it.

I won’t say any more about this now for fear of giving you too many spoilers, and also because this theme, of many, is just one of the layers inside the book (which you’ll soon find out about), but just understand this. Writing The Signs Are Coming has changed my life because I set out to be an author, not a historian, and what I discovered in the process of writing that book was far beyond the book I ever expected to write. And for me? To have my book being compared to a mystery so intense as The Da Vinci Code? Who’d have thought it.

Either way, I’m excited to share with you what I discovered because I still find it hard to believe that this one is my book and my story to tell. But it is…and it’s coming soon.

The Signs Are Coming will be released in September 2021. Please follow me on my blog and social media links below. Thank you once again for taking the time to read this blog post.

N.A.K.