Books, friends, other stuff

Bizarrely, The Hawkwood War seems to now be available in .epub format, but The Maker’s Mask isn’t. I have no explanation for how the wheels of Lulu turn. So, if your preferred format is .epub and you read the first book in paperback or .pdf and liked it enough to give the second one a […]

RIP Kay Dekker

A president might have been conceived today; A book begun, a cause, a truth, an army New particles might flare across a screen; At very least, there wasn’t a tsunami. Such days make years; the years stack seamlessly Like micrometres on a coral reef But someone who I cared for very much Is gone: and […]

It’s Not A Trilogy*

So, I was out having coffee with a friend today and she mentioned that her husband hadn’t bought my books because he thought they were a trilogy, and he doesn’t like buying the first two books of a trilogy and then having to wait for a third. Now, it’s entirely reasonable for people not to […]

The Rights Of The Reader

A friend sent me a link to this great post about Daniel Pennac’s book The Rights Of The Reader. I wish I’d had this book and the poster that comes with it when I was nine, or even when I was nineteen. Heck, I’m thirty-nine and I’m still going to buy the book. This is […]

Advice wanted – blogging platforms?

I’m not finding WordPress is entirely meeting my needs, and am thinking of upping sticks to a new blogging platform. Anyone got any recommendations?

Progress on ePub availability of the books

It looks as if The Hawkwood War is on its way to the Apple iBookstore, as when I went and looked at my Lulu sales just now there was an unexpected ‘new project’ on my list of books which turned out to be the ePub edition. With luck, The Maker’s Mask will soon start percolating […]

Good Thing, Bad Thing

Bad thing: realising that the plot took a wrong turn about sixty pages back. Good thing: at least now I can fix it, rather than staring at the book thinking ‘This is crap! I can’t get on with this book because something’s wrong with it, and I can’t start a different book because my brain […]

Quick post

According to Amazon, people who bought The Maker’s Mask also bought Cranford. Which I suspect is small-sample bias rather than both books appealing to fans of formidable elderly ladies, but I’m honoured to find myself in such company anyway. Also, Dame Eileen Atkins would make a wonderful Malabranca Prime.

A sequel of unfortunate events

I always like it when books have authors’ notes reading ‘This book was a pain in the backside to write’ because it makes me feel like I’m not alone and it gives me hope that they managed to finish a book so there’s no reason why I can’t do the same. At present Heavy Ice […]

Very exciting news! Requite books available on Kindle!

The first two Requite books are now available on the Amazon Kindle Store! Here are the links: The Maker’s Mask (The Books Of Requite) The Hawkwood War (The Books Of Requite) Here is an excerpt from The Maker’s Mask, to celebrate: Kjarten Helm sat down on one side of Tzenni and offered her some wine […]