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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 »

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 »

Earlier this year I released desktop wallpapers of the lovely Alchemist of Souls cover art by Larry Rostant, and they proved rather popular. Since I love the cover of The Merchant of Dreams even more, I thought I’d better do the same for it! So, here’s the lovely Jacomina “Coby” Hendricks for your computer-decorating pleasure. Just don’t  Continue Reading »

I tried to slither out of this at first, but then I woke one morning at 5am and couldn’t get back to sleep, but couldn’t get into the writing groove either, so I thought I might as well give it a go! The Next Big Thing is a blog post chain for writers. You talk  Continue Reading »

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 »

Last week I got my first glimpse of the gorgeous cover art for Book 2 of the Night’s Masque trilogy, and thanks to some hard work by artist Larry Rostant and Angry Robot supremo Marc Gascoigne, I’m now able to reveal the finished article:   As you can see it features Mal Catlyn’s partner in  Continue Reading »

This year my focus has been on the second book in the Night’s Masque trilogy, The Merchant of Dreams. As the title hints at, this installment is set (partially) in Venice, a favourite city of mine. However I haven’t been there since 2003, so I was very keen on making another visit to do some  Continue Reading »

I was very excited when I saw this book was coming out: I love alternate history, Venice is one of my favourite cities (the book I’m working on is set there in large part), and it sounded like an interesting twist on the hoary old vampires-vs-werewolves trope. In all these respects I was not disappointed.  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 »