Dec 11 2012
Here’s a peek at the cover art for the French edition of Trinity Rising, a.k.a Le Lever des Lunes, which is due out in January 2013 This isn’t a very hi-res image, because I just pinched it from Amazon, but you can see the forest theme is continuing, this time in a gorgeous sunset palette. …
Nov 21 2012
Urban fantasy author Suzanne McLeod – of Spellcrackers fame – tagged me to be part of The Next Big Thing blogfest meme – you can read her post here. Unable as I am to pass up any opportunity to waffle on about my books, I naturally said yes. There’s ten questions to answer, so without …
Nov 15 2012
I thought it was about time I overhauled the look of the website and integrated it properly with the blog. So over the weekend I moved the whole shebang onto WordPress, with the assistance of copious quantities of wine and swearing. Bear with me for the next few days as I continue to tinker (most …
Nov 01 2012
Second books are tricksy things, as I’m sure any writer will agree. No longer can you meander along at your own pace, letting your story take shape as it will; you’re on a contract now, and you have deadlines – you know, those things that Douglas Adams loved for the whooshing noise they made as …
Oct 18 2012
So that’s The Raven’s Shadow a.k.a Book 3 of The Wild Hunt Quartet packed off to my editor for scrutiny, so I can start to think about Book 4 in more detail than I have up to now. It’s going to take quite a bit of planning (a novel experience for me) as there is …
Sep 17 2012
Many of you probably imagine writers slaving away in an upstairs bedroom that doubles as an office, or crouched over a laptop at the kitchen table. This is often the case, but here at Cooper Towers I am fortunate to have the support and assistance of a team of dedicated professionals as I work. It’s …
Aug 21 2012
From time to time, other writers decide to follow me on Twitter. Some of them are self-pubbed, some traditional. I read their profiles and decide whether I want to follow them back – if they’re funny or interesting or wise, or they write in my genre, or we have something else in common that makes …
Aug 15 2012
I broke cover with this elsewhere on teh internets just now, so this makes it official: Book 3 of The Wild Hunt series will be called The Raven’s Shadow. The title has only just been agreed on with my agent and editor, so Amazon and other e-tailers might not have got all their ducks in …
Aug 03 2012
From time to time I get requests from people wanting to send their books to me, have me sign them, then send them back. This makes me feel really awkward, because I hate saying no to people, but there’s a couple of reasons why I just can’t do this. Firstly, once you’ve said yes to …
Jul 26 2012
A couple of days ago, seeing as publication of Trinity Rising was imminent, I had a poke about on my overseas publishers’ websites to see if I could find some release dates for the translated editions. Imagine my delight when I found this. Isn’t it gorgeous? Yet again, Heyne have done me and my books …