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Book 3 title news

Carved raven totemI 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 a row yet, so be patient with them.

To the best of my knowledge, the book should be out round about this time next year, assuming I can get to the bottom of the to-do list* taped to the side of my monitor, deliver the script by the end of next month, and no horrific blunders emerge in the edit.

*crosses off  today’s completed tasks, viz. Items 18 & 19 – yay. Achievement unlocked: ice cream!

 

Signed books

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 one person, it becomes very difficult to then start saying no. As much as I like every single one of you who’s parted with their hard-earned to buy my books, if I spend all my time unpacking, signing, re-packing and getting taxis to the Post Office, I’m not going to have much time for writing. And you all want more books from me, I hope. Don’t you?

Secondly, I’m a bit leery about giving out my home address. As much as I like every single one of you etc etc I’m not quite ready to invite you all in for a cuppa, because then I’d have to get the hoover out. Plus, it would totally ruin the authorly mystique. Continue reading

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