A snippet from The Duke Is Dead, coming this summer from me and Irene Headley:

To SIR MORRICANT THISTLE, in Anais: good sire you know mee not and i prey you not to be angered that i write unto you. i am paulatus of vascony a servant of god oure redeemer and of her grace the duches of montfaldry. i write to you to saye that there has been here […]

2019 – The Year Of Finishing Books

Big news! The Duke Is Dead, the first book in a projected series of four (with added novellas, etc) which I have been co-writing with Irene Headley, is coming out in August 2019! The Duke Is Dead is a fantasy adventure loosely inspired by the events of the Wars of the Roses, featuring romance, court […]

Anna Chronistic – The End Approaches

The first draft of Anna Chronistic And The Scarab Of Destiny is nearing its climax, and I’m tentatively hoping for a 2017 release. Here is a snippet of today’s writing (may be NSFW, depending on your workplace: mention of vintage erotica)

Today’s snippet

As so often in my books, two characters are discussing religion. “I’m KinHarzin. When the Emperor was Binitarian, I was Binitarian. Now that the Emperor is Dispensationalist, I am Dispensationalist.” “And what would you be if the Emperor disbanded the KinHarzin?” “Dangerous.” In other news, Lulu has moved on since I last published a book […]

Quote from today’s wordcount

“The Duke continued to stare at me as if the Diana of Ephesus had just stepped out of a mummy-case and bared her breasts at him.”

Snippets from projects on the go at present:

Warning! F-bomb and other possibly NSFW text under the cut.

This Be The ‘Verse

One of the things I really should have done when I started all this is come up with a name for the future universe that Requite exists in, which also contains the FSSI and KinSpace and the Bind and other remnants of the Solannan Imperity and pre-Solannan colonisation. I can’t keep saying ‘A Requite Novel’ […]