D. P. Sloan

David Sloan better known as his penned name D P Sloan has been writing since he was sixteen years old.

Born and bred in Glasgow, Scotland. His first 'short story' was penned the next morning after he had a nightmare, he called it, 'Don't Go Out There,' it introduced his family to a dark side of David where he created a character called, 'Frank Nelson.'

After many months of writing and seeking help from one of his English teachers, he changed the story about and introduced more characters, he retitled the story, 'The Frank Nelson Story,'and introduced a character called, 'Kane Nelson,'

After many months (and years) of not bothering with the story and only doing short stories, it festered at the bottom of a drawer until in 2013 he decided to make a complete story but change things about, make it a 21st Century piece of work.

The characters in the short stories didn't fit into the narrative but D P Sloan still wanted to inject his character into the story but he looked at both Frank Nelson and Kane Nelson and it just wouldn't work. Later on he was watching a horror movie called, 'See No Evil,' it's main star was a wrestler from America called Kane (real name Glen Jacobs) and it came to him the name that would scare a town, strike fear in the heart of people, his name was, 'Jacob Kane,' and alongside him the most deprived serial killer to ever grace the books since Buffalo Bill, a man that recruits Jacob in a bid to start a campaign of murder in the sleepy town of Clydebank that man being, 'Zach Light.'

And so the book was writing and the title changed to, 'Go To Sleep,' the first in a series of books. Go To Sleep came out in Spring 2014 followed closely on Halloween 2015 by Go To Sleep 2, the follow up picking up where part 1 ended. Then to round off the first part of the trilogy, Go To Sleep: the final conflict a.k.a Go To Sleep 3 came out in 2016.

He took a break from the Go To Sleep series and penned a standalone zombie virus outbreak novel, called, 'Storm of the Dead,' a virus that engulfs the whole of Glasgow before Worldwide turning dead deadly and the living into flesh eating monsters. This came out in 2017.

In 2018, D P Sloan returned to his baby, and penned, 'Go To Sleep: Cannibal' a branched off novel from Go To Sleep Part 2.

Then in 2019, he released 'Go To Sleep: Haunted,' a horrific ghost story branching off from Go To Sleep 3.

Now in 2023 D P Sloan has returned full circle to the series and will be releasing Go To Sleep 4: the rise of Sam Kane

Go To Sleep series is a tale of 3 Killers, 2 brothers and 1 revenge. Where the town of Clydebank which was built on history - now is stalked by a killer.

In partnership with his publisher Amazon, D P Sloan finally brought terror to his town.

D P Sloan lives in Clydebank just outside Glasgow in Scotland and is a proud father to twins Rebecca & Ryan and his youngest son Daegan.

When asked about how he came up with such a terrifying novel, D P Sloan said his main influences are Stephen King, R.L.Stine, Clive Barker, Wes Craven, Sean S.Cunningham, John Carpenter and in the music industry, Eminem, Dr Dre and 50 Cent. He loves his gore movies from the likes of Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento and rates Cannibal Holocaust by Ruggero Deodato as one of the best movies ever made.

He is a huge horror fan and Rap/Hip-Hop fan.

When he isn't working his main job, D P Sloan creates short stories of what he shares on his Facebook page. You can follow D P Sloan at www.facebook.com/GoToSleepseries or on twitter at @AuthorDPSloan or on TikTok at @davidsloan21 and see more updates on future releases.