Black Moon is tremendous: smart, beautifully written, and artfully plotted. Kenneth Calhoun’s story is so engagingly told that it would be easy to overlook how finely crafted it is. And he manages to pull off that essential feat: he makes us care—deeply—for ordinary people trapped in a very extraordinary world. - Scott Smith, author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan

Black Moon is the kind of book I envy as a writer, and seek out as a reader -- a novel of ideas wrapped in an gripping, expertly constructed story, full of feeling and intelligence. Kenneth Calhoun has his own distinctive voice, a voice I hope (and expect) to be hearing more from in years to come - Charles Yu, author of Sorry Please Thank You

Calhoun’s epidemic, this new and improved insomnia, sinks us into a world where ‘sleepers’ are the target of violent rage. Here we see the erosion of the everyday ruses that allow us to soldier on, the ugly truths we run from gaining ground. Black Moon is a powerful, beautiful debut. - John Brandon, author of Citrus County and A Million Heavens

Imagine a world without sleep. A world driven to the brink of exhaustion. A waking nightmare.

MOVIE DEAL just agreed with ABC Studios, for Melissa Rosenberg -- the screenwriter of the TWILIGHT franchise -- to write and executive produce.

The anti ‘Before I Go to Sleep’ book: a strong and brilliantly executed high-concept novel, which takes a commonplace anxiety – insomnia – and pitches it to the extreme. This is a book which speaks to everyone's experience and will get people talking

A waking nightmare: cross-over appeal for fans of dystopian fiction and high-concept literature and films such as Wool and Inception; sci-fi and also lovers of dark literary fiction, such as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Justin Cronin's The Passage and Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

'Love in the time of Insomnia': but this is no straight-forward 'catastrophe' novel. Rich in imagination, dark and anxiety-inducing, with a moving human story – of a marriage being torn apart -- at its heart (inspired by Ken's wife's experiences of sleeplessness)

A global event: published transatlantically with Hogarth US, expect a tireless campaign for Black Moon including an innovative all-night marketing campaign and a publicity plan that targets night-owls, to make this the book that never sleeps

Bold, arresting cover design in conjunction with a digital campaign