Help out some friends of a friend publish steampunk pirate Western erotica

My lovely friend Ashbet, who beta-read Firebrand, put me on to this Indiegogo campaign from friends of hers who are raising money to write ‘a steampunky western erotic adventure serial full of sex, violence, pirates, airships, Experimentals, and maybe even some dinosaurs.’ Now, I have no empirical evidence that some of the people who enjoyed […]

It’s like she’s a were-Father Jack

Number of f-bombs dropped so far in the book: 33 Number of f-bombs dropped by people other than Kallisty: 3, two from Rafe and one from Kallisty’s friend Bhoomi. It’s a good thing on the whole that I don’t write inspirationals.

In praise of GeneWeb

(or, ‘Help, Help, My Family Tree Is Full Of Hawkwoods’) So, the new book is taking place in 650 S.F., which is two hundred and eighteen years after the last two. It’s also 4911 by the calendar the rest of the universe is using, but whether that’s 4911 CE or 4911 years after what someone […]

New covers, and recommend me romantic SF

Here are the old and new front covers for The Maker’s Mask and The Hawkwood War and the new back covers for both. Click to embiggen or view as a gallery. I wanted the new blue covers to give a clearer ‘this is SF’ message, and also to have a fighting chance of being comprehensible […]

New covers coming

It’s over two years now since I did the covers for The Maker’s Mask and The Hawkwood War, and while I did the best I could at the time, I think I could probably do better. (Also, someone linked me to a ‘bad covers’ Tumblr and I thought ‘If The Hawkwood War ended up on […]

According to Harriet

As promised, a free read for Christmas, According to Harriet, in which one of Kadia’s stepdaughters gives her side of the story. Meanwhile, Heavy Ice is growing like fractal coral, which at least means it’s growing, I suppose, and I keep being ambushed with ideas for other plots taking place in the Requitiverse. A happy […]

Seasonal musical awesomeness

Apparently all that was needed to make me feel Christmassy was A Heavy Metal Christmas by Christopher Lee. Never has ‘pa-ru-pa-pum-pum’ sounded so foreboding. You know how some authors helpfully provide ‘this is what I was listening to while I wrote this book’ playlists? This is why I never do that. (As opposed to ‘here, […]

A Very Ingeniious Christmas

As last year, there will be a free read up on the site this Christmas as a present to my readers. This year’s story is set in the Firebrand universe and contains honking great spoilers for the book, so don’t read if you want to remain unspoiled. 🙂 Image from http://www.fromoldbooks.org

Paperbacks of Firebrand have arrived at Amazon

If you want a paperback of Firebrand and like the convenience of ordering from Amazon, the good news is that it has finally worked its way through the system and arrived there: Buy from amazon.co.uk Buy from amazon.com Firebrand is also available in electronic format: Buy .epub from Lulu Buy .mobi from Amazon.co.uk Buy .mobi […]

Today’s writing snippet

Today’s quote, which comes out of an otherwise somewhat messy chapter that I have to go through with a pair of shears: Rafe put steel in his voice. “I’ll ask you again. If I surrender to you, will you give me your word that Ms. Hawkwood will receive the medical treatment she needs?” Zaxquill stared […]