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Great news people! I've now completed the first 3 chapters of my new novel, Machines of God. Only another 270,000 words to go until the finish line. Ha, ha. Go to kirkhoughton.com for (irregular) updates.

"Overall, approximately 70 people have worked full time on the investigations." Life imitating art, anybody? This is straight out of a series of Follow the Money, Denmark's unmissable TV drama. Only the investigation in the drama stretches to just three people...

I'm now 5,000 words into chapter four of my latest novel, Machines of God. My soundtrack for tonight's writng session: Annihilator, Alice in Hell, The Pixies, Doolittle; Terrorizer, World Downfall; TLC, CrazySexy Cool; and Entombed, Left Hand Path.

My Top 5 Thrash Metal Albums (In no order) Celtic Frost - Vanity/ Nemesis Metallica - Master of Puppets Megadeth - Rust in Peace Prong - Beg to Differ Voivod - Killing Technology

I remember buying this from Vinyl Exchange in Manchester for £3.99 (second hand CD) in 1999...

Anything with Tommy Victor on guitar has my attention. If only he could team up with Bill Steer of Carcass for a future project. That would be fucking awesome.

Earth-shattering news: I'm now at the 90,000-word mark of my latest novel, and exactly one-third of the way towards completing the first draft. Go to kirkhoughton.com for updates on Machines of God.

Any writer who claims to have predicted Brexit is a twat. Therefore, I feel it's only fitting to make the same claim with my 2015 novel, The Dividing Lines. kirkhoughton.com/inside-the-div…

The greatest Rock/ Metal/ Avante Garde singer of all time is doing the national anthem at the NFL division playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. WTF? This is great news.

I've now hit the 100k word mark of my current novel, Machines of God. View updates at kirkhoughton.com. The journalism of Michael Lewis meets the poignany of Haruki Murakami. Well, that's the aim!

Is this the best Extreme Metal line up of all time? Carcass, Anthrax, Emperor, Therion, Voivod, Prong and Anaal Nathrakh on the same bill. And Tom G Warrior is now on the bill with Hellhammer. Yes, please!

I've now reached the 150k-word mark of my current novel, Machines of God. A great half way point to take a breather before I race ahead with the next 150k words. Go to kirkhoughton.com for updates.

It's good to return from a prolonged period of hibernation. In that time, I finished the first draft of my current novel, Machines Of God. Go to kirkhoughton.com for more info.

"At-Tawbah is a fascinating sūrah... mainly because it offers a coherent survey of the challenges facing the Muslim army in late 630."

I remember buying this in 1998 from Woolworths in Chorley (Lancashire) for £12.99... x.com/SmashingPumpki…

Just finished the first 1000 words of chapter two for my new book. It's good to be back. Read chapter one at kirkhoughton.com

Anyone else find that switching from writing fiction to social sciences is an excuse to write longer sentences and not care about excessive adverb use?

Added another 1000 words to chapter 2 of my current book, 'Islam and the Qur'an - An Outsider's Interpretation.' Read a draft of chapter one at kirkhoughton.com.

Now 4000 words into chapter 2 of my current book - only another 26,000 more to go before I'm on chapter 3. This chapter: Christianity in the Qur'an. Go to kirkhoughton.com.

Chp 2 of my latest book continues on track: 'Two years later around the time of the Battle of Tabouk, Muhammad makes his final judgement on Christianity and decides it is a religion of Kufr after all. One of the most infamous laws of the Qur’an emerges from Sūrah 9, At-Tawbah.'