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Friday Reads: Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott Lynch
Having left Camorre after the deaths of their fellow Gentleman Bastards at the hands of the Bondsmagi, Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen are running a new scam in the Sinspire, a high-class casino in the city of Tal Verrar. Unfortunately the Bondsmagi haven’t finished with Locke yet, and he and Jean find themselves working—decidedly unwillingly—for Continue Reading »
The Merchant of Dreams – Giveaway, Part 2
Update: congratulations to winners Paul, DeeDee, Gwen and Abhinav – your goodies will be on their way soon! As announced last week, I have a stack of copies of The Merchant of Dreams just begging to be given away, so here’s the second batch! This time it’s a worldwide giveaway, open to anyone anywhere. I have Continue Reading »
The Merchant of Dreams – Giveaway, Part 1
Update: congratulations to Dave, Herdis, Lucy and Steven – your goodies will be in the post soon! My author copies of The Merchant of Dreams turned up the other day, so I thought it was about time I did a giveaway. In fact I’ve got so many different editions, I decided to do two! First Continue Reading »
Woman in sensible armour
As a fantasy author, I’m often called upon to write combat scenes for my books. Sometimes they’re a simple tussle using whatever weapons come to hand (like Ned’s main fight scene in The Alchemist of Souls) but given that my protagonist Mal usually goes around wearing a rapier and matching dagger, there are inevitably a Continue Reading »
The Merchant of Dreams: publication date confirmed
I’m very happy to announce the publication date of the second book in the Night’s Masque trilogy, The Merchant of Dreams. Ebook & US paperback: 18 December 2012 UK paperback: 3 January 2013 Now, before you grumble that the US is getting the paperback edition ages before the UK, the explanation is simple. Usually the Continue Reading »
Action? Figures!
One of my favourite bits of writing fantasy is the action scenes. I rarely bother to plan them in advance – one sword-fighting scene in The Alchemist of Souls was described as “Big fight!” in my outline – as I find they’re more fun, and more fluid, if I just make things up as I Continue Reading »
Book review: Ten Ruby Trick, by Julia Knight
Black into white into blue into grey into black. Order and pattern are the way of Holden’s life, buffering his mind from the reality that he is mage-bonded to the Master of the Archipelago, with no choice but to obey his every whim or die in agony. So when the Master commands him to capture Continue Reading »
Book review: On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers
I wanted to re-read (and review) this book this month, before the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, on which it is very loosely based, comes out. I’m very glad I did, as it’s been many years since I first read it and the experience was quite an eye-opener. On Stranger Tides was first published Continue Reading »
