Shadows of the Apt

Well it's been something of a long time between posts, but my excuse is that I've been writing, which is obviously the point of the thing. Specifically I've been hacking bits of book 7 into shape, so there. I meant to post before this, if only to extoll the virtues of Thought Bubble, the comics convention held recently […]

(Beware, this list takes the cast up to the end of Salute the Dark. There may be spoilers) Aagen — Wasp artificer ACHAEOS — Moth seer and raider, lover of Cheerwell Maker Adax — Tarkesh Ant, duellist at the College Adran — Wasp soldier, member of the Broken Sword Adraxa — Ant, one of Scuto's […]

Well, as you can tell, I'm back from Poland, where the first ever foreign language edition of Empire in Black and Gold has been transliterated as Imperium Czerni i Zlota (1). I had a whirlwind ride around Poland, or at least Warsaw and Krakow, with just enough time free to see the sights (Warsaw Old Town in […]

For Salute the Dark being none other than book 4 of Shadows of the Apt by some hack or other, is now into pre-sales and you can see some details, as well as the frankly wonderful cover by Jon Sullivan here. My personal feeling is that this is the best cover yet, and Jon managed to […]

I'm happy at the moment, because I have been afforded the opportunity to revisit my childhood (1) (2) I have been on the hunt for some time for a book that I remember from my tender years. The author is Dutch childrens' writer Paul Biegel, and the title is The Seven Times Search and I never actually owned a copy […]

Apologies for the gap in posting, but life has been hectic all roung. New job, for example. Yes, day job, still. The whole writing shenanigan is not enough to settle the bills as of yet. (1) However, a new story detailing the murkier side of Collegium academia, because whilst the books are full of academics spying, […]

Another brief B‑road of the information superhighway: I will be signing at Garforth Independent Bookshop at 11.00am til noon, Saturday 29^th August, if you've missed me at Leeds, Reading etcetera. As a final and somewhat further flung item on the tour (1) I will be in Poland from the 5^th to the 8^th November to catch up with the […]

A series of quick-fire notes on the eve of my setting off for London for Official Release Debauchery ™:   I've put up a new short story. Actually I lie: this is the story that was published in Deathray a few months back, that they're happy for me to put up here now that sufficient time has passed. It's The […]

This is the story that appeared in Deathray a few months back, which they're happy for me to repost on here by now. I'm planning this to be the first in a sequence, but we'll see how that goes. There is a somewhat peculiar genesis for this particular story that centres on a live role-playing group that I and some friends […]

It's that time of year again (1). Blood of the Mantis, Shadows of the Apt book 3, is being let out of its cage on the 7^th of August, and, cometh the book, cometh the signings. We're keeping with our track record (2) of adding an additional venue for each book, and some of the […]