The Time Draws Near

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m nearly done with the first draft of A Murder of Crowns. It follows Lily and Lark as they deal with their increasingly destructive powers, taking them from the frozen wastes of Hold Saar to the searing basin deserts of the Third Country – a land where Goddeath is said to lie in slumber, bound by her rebellious priests and kept at bay by the Ageless King.

But in a nutshell: Sibling murder mystery in a dark fantasy setting, with an epic journey for a dubious cure.

Website Update

Since there’s only so many hours of the day I can draft and edit before words dribble into mush, I’ve been working on updating this website ready for a proper launch later this year. We’re probably talking a 2nd edition of A Handful of Souls, with new covers and marketing. Leaving stealth mode, is the tech nerd term I will glibly steal here.

Up till now my goal was to get two books out before properly ‘launching’. It’s taken a while, but writing a sequel to something as bizarre as A Handful of Souls was an interesting challenge. I like escalating events towards chaos, but that is quite complicated when the surviving characters are all fairly escalated already.

Newsletters and Prequel Novella

To know when pre-orders go live, you can join my mailing list. Panic not if things are a little quiet, the first newsletter will go out in the autumn once drafting and editing is nearing completion.

There will eventually be a free prequel novella for newsletter subscribers. It will cover some of the backstory for Dren and Terrano, with events leading up to things kicking off in a Handful of Souls.

Until next time!