The New ‘Which Requite Character Are You?’ Quiz

I wrote the first version of this in 2008 when two people besides me had read the books. Now that a few more people know what I’m talking about, I thought I’d dust it off. Which Requite Character Are You? 1) If you were starring in an anime series, who would you be? A: The […]

Periodicals

I haven’t been vanity-Googling my nom de plume much, because I think vanity-Googlers mostly hear no good of themselves. But perhaps I should have been… Today, while trying to help my father find my blog, I discovered that Amazon truncates ‘writing historical novels about periods that haven’t happened yet’ to ‘writing historical novels about periods’. […]

I Get Searches

Shoutout to the person who got here searching on ‘worldbuilding is hard’. You’re right, it really is! Fist bump to the person who got here searching on ‘what will karely be when she grows up’. Happy, I hope. Cheery wave to the person who got here searching on ‘latinus wink’. I have no idea what […]

Update

Today brought cheering and unexpected news: I’ve sold more books than I thought I had, because apparently the Amazon and Book Depository orders all come through in one lump at the beginning of the month. Who knew? Not me, because self-publishing is a continuing voyage of discovery. 🙂 The beginning of the week brought a […]

Another money off code from Lulu

Just for the Halloween weekend – enter code GHOST at checkout and get 20% off any order up to £100. I wouldn’t say my books are particularly Halloween-appropriate, though they do have monsters in. 😉

Things I have achieved today

Finally worked out where one of the damn flashbacks fits into Heavy Ice. Yay! Including flashbacks is like starting one of those novelty three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles: it’s only a good idea if you have a very clear idea of what the finished edifice will look like, which I generally don’t. November is coming, so good […]

Welcome!

Since the book seems to have been recommended in a couple of places (thank you, recommenders!) welcome, new readers! Here are some posts you may find useful: About the books Reasons why you should buy my books Extract from The Maker’s Mask: Book One Of Requite Extract from The Hawkwood War: Book Two Of Requite […]

Giveaway! Win a copy of The Maker’s Mask

These books are going off to the legal deposit library: But this book is going to someone picked at random from the comments to this post. The beads aren’t going anywhere, I just hadn’t noticed they were on the table and then I thought they looked pretty. So, leave a comment if you want a […]

Quick note – FAQ updated

I’ve made a couple of changes to the FAQ, which is now more about the books and less about me. 🙂

Reasons why I have this blog

Why did I start this blog? Partly to promote the books. Partly because I am really interested in learning processes, and I wanted to document the journey from not having a clue to how self-publishing worked to… well, having more of an idea exactly what I didn’t have a clue about. But also, partly in […]