Tag Archives: Elizabethan

One of the perils of being a discovery writer is that you tend to wander off the beaten track and write scenes that really don’t need to be in the book (or worse still, entire plotlines that have to be pulled out because they’re irrelevant). During the course of drafting The Alchemist of Souls I  Continue Reading »

On Saturday I finally got my hands on a physical ARC of The Alchemist of Souls, which was pretty thrilling, let me tell you! Of course I’ve seen the cover art before, in gorgeous high-resolution, and read the text a gazillion times – but it was still an extraordinary feeling to flip through the physical  Continue Reading »

I’m very happy to announce that Book Three in the Night’s Masque trilogy has had the stamp of approval* from the Robot Overlords, so I can finally reveal the title: The Prince of Lies I can’t really say anything more about it at this stage – for one thing, it’s only a brief synopsis and  Continue Reading »

A lot of the fun of writing fantasy is in the world-building, which consists largely of taking a bunch of ideas that you find cool, and fitting them together into something new and interesting. When creating a secondary world, you’re free to take absolutely anything you like and try to make it work, but in  Continue Reading »

Got a nice surprise in my email today – the final version of the cover of The Alchemist of Souls, complete with lettering. Like, my name on it, and everything! Awesome or what?

At long last I’m able to unveil the cover art for my debut novel The Alchemist of Souls – and what a cover it is! I was delighted when Marc at Angry Robot told me he was commissioning Larry Rostant, who has done covers for practically everyone from George R R Martin downwards – I  Continue Reading »

Since I’ve been struggling to stay focused of late, I’ve decided to try an experiment. I’ve created a Twitter account in the name of my protagonist, Mal Catlyn, and will be tweeting the twelve months of his life that lead up to the events of  The Alchemist of Souls. The story begins in July 1592,  Continue Reading »

I picked up this book from the Angry Robot stall at FantasyCon 2010, the day after meeting Marc Gascoigne, mostly because I wanted to check out the competition. However I then put it aside for some months, as I had revisions to do and I prefer not to read fiction whilst writing, in case I  Continue Reading »

After many anxious weeks of biting my tongue, I am finally able to share my good news with the world – I have a three-book deal from UK SF&F publishers Angry Robot Back in September last year, this was only a distant, fervent dream. I met Angry Robot head honcho Marc Gascoigne at FantasyCon and  Continue Reading »

I had planned to do a classic movie review today, but I got so caught up in planning Book Two of my Elizabethan fantasy series yesterday, I didn’t get around to watching any. So instead I’m stealing a leaf out of Mark Chadbourn’s blog and talking about how I research my novels, since that’s a  Continue Reading »