Hi all. I didn’t realise quite how much time had passed since I posted here! I’ve been posting quite often on the Facebook Fan Page but that’s no help for all the readers who don’t use Facebook, so a big apology from me, and I will try to do better. I’ve been busy getting the current book finished, and have made that my priority. To those who are waiting for replies to snail mail, they will come, but embarrassingly late.
So what have I been up to?
– I’ve completed the manuscript for Harp of Kings, the first book in my new series, Warrior Bards. I’m currently polishing and editing prior to submitting this to my publisher in mid-July. Publication will be in 2019 (I’ll advise which month when I know) from Penguin Random House US and Pan Macmillan Australia, plus an audiobook edition from Recorded Books. The Warrior Bards series is set in the same version of early medieval Ireland as both the Sevenwaters and Blackthorn & Grim series, and is centred around Swan Island and the young warriors in training there. It is not a direct continuation of the Blackthorn & Grim series, but could be thought of as ”B & G: The next generation”.
– I have a novella coming out very soon in Aurum, an anthology of seven fantasy novellas from Ticonderoga Press – this book is now available for pre-order, and will be out in August. I can highly recommend this – there are some wonderful contributors. My story, Beautiful, is a version of the fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon. I’m currently working on an expanded version of this novella which will be released next year in audiobook. More on that closer to the time.
– I had a story called Through the Diamond Window accepted for an anthology for children, A Miniature Christmas, to be published later this year by Christmas Press.
– I had a short story, Army Men, published in an anthology of science fiction and fantasy, Of Gods and Globes. Release date is July 4. The link under the title is to the US Kindle edition, but the anthology will also be available from Kobo, and in a paperback edition from Amazon. Australian readers, this link takes you to a page with ordering information for both ebook and print editions. Each contributor to the anthology centered their story around one of the planets, or the deity that planet is named for. The title of my story more or less gives away my choice of Mars, God of War.
