C.R. Berry

Million Eyes

  • Book deal SIGNED! Elsewhen Press will publish “Million Eyes”

    I’m pleased to announce—no, not pleased, ecstatic and weeing myself slightly—that I’ve just signed my first ever book deal. After years of talking about it, my time travel conspiracy thriller, Million Eyes, is finally on its way. The deal is with an independent publisher called Elsewhen Press, who specialise in speculative fiction and are building Read more

  • Hey 2019. The year Game of Thrones and Star Wars end. And…

    … Million Eyes begins! Yes, yes, yes, I totally realise that I’m making it sound like my forthcoming conspiracy thriller novel Million Eyes is going to be the next BIG thing. I’m under no illusions how unlikely and pipe dreamy that is. I’m confident that a lot of people will enjoy Million Eyes given the subject Read more

  • Voila! A new look & feel for the website

    Good day readers! As mentioned in my article last week (which was great therapy by the way — I’ve felt heaps better since then), I’ve been wanting to relaunch my website with a new design and name. So here it is! While I always liked the name “Behind The Curtain”, it was more reflective of my Read more

  • New plans for “Million Eyes” and my stop-off at Heartbreakville

    Well, 2018. I’m not sure how I feel about you anymore. It started off well. First seven months—great. Last five—not so much. Now I’m afraid I’m looking forward to seeing the back of you. After a long-ish hiatus, I’m back. Blog’s going to take a slightly different form from now on, but I’ll get to Read more

  • I’m now a Grindstone Literary shortlisted novelist!

    In case you missed it on Facebook and Twitter, this is a quick post to say that I’m now a very proud Grindstone Literary shortlisted novelist. I entered the first 3,000 words of a new work-in-progress novel called Scuzzling — a conspiracy thriller with religious themes set in a fantasy world — into their international novel competition. It ended up Read more

  • All the places you can read the “Million Eyes” short stories

    The Million Eyes short stories are standalone short stories set in the same universe as the Million Eyes Trilogy. Here is a list of all the stories that have been published so far, with little blurbs and links to where you can read them. Rachel Can See Rachel Evans is having memories of things that didn’t happen. Read more

  • My story “Operation Loch Ness” has been published by Idle Ink

    My short story, Operation Loch Ness, has been published by online short story magazine Idle Ink and is available to read for free here. This is the latest of the Million Eyes short stories to be published, following Rachel Can See, Rachel Can Still See, The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller, The Home Secretary is safe, Read more

  • The murder of Princess Diana: the conspiracy that won’t die

    A shroud of strange coincidences, missing evidence and sinister unanswered questions continue to hang over the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In this article I’m going to home in on the three big ones: the white Fiat Uno, the lack of CCTV, and Henri Paul’s blood… Diana’s death is Britain’s JFK. It remains the Read more

  • The Princes in the Tower: Britain’s most famous missing persons case

    The unexplained disappearance of the Princes in the Tower, aka 12-year-old Edward V of England and his nine-year-old brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, is one of Britain’s coldest cases. Five and a half centuries on, it remains the subject of debate and conspiracy theory. But are we any closer to the truth? When King Edward IV Read more

  • There be changes round these ’ere parts

    A new year gets all of us thinking about new things. Resolutions, goals, plans—stuff like that. I’ve just moved house. That’s the biggest new thing I have to share. For the last four years I’ve lived in a town called Aldershot. Famous as the home of the British Army and birthplace of The Hobbit star Read more

  • “Rachel Can Still See” has been published in Phantaxis Issue 7

    My new short story, Rachel Can Still See, has been published in Issue 7 of science fiction and fantasy magazine Phantaxis. Rachel Can Still See is the sixth of the Million Eyes Short Stories to be published, after Rachel Can See, Paul, The Charlie Chaplin Time Traveller, The Home Secretary is Safe and Who is Rudolph Fentz?  All these stories are set Read more

  • “Million Eyes” makes it into the top 20% of the Grindstone Literary Novel Competition

    As I continue my tireless search for a literary agent for Million Eyes, it’s great to get some good news from a competition I entered the book into some months back. It was the 2017 Novel Opening Competition from Grindstone Literary Services, into which I entered the first 1,000 words of Million Eyes. While I didn’t make Read more

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