Ahoy! I have important but unusual news to impart. India Bones is no longer India Bones. India Bones is India Muerte. This is his name, has always been his name (I, Ministry of Truth, reaching back into the past to change it), will be his name going forward. As such, the series title has changed,…
I apologise for the wait since the last India book, so long after already declaring I’d finished the second draft. There’s been big life changes and their accompanying demands, waiting on the lovely cover art (by Martina Stipan, same as the others), a smorgasbord of new story ideas stealing my attention… Mostly, I just wanted…
It’s my pleasure to present to you – beneath this bunch of boring text – three new gorgeous pieces of cover art for Books 2-4 of the pirate fantasy series India Bones. I’ll also add the cover art to the first book, revealed previously but here without the lettering, to the collection so you can…
As promised with my previous blog update, the second piece of news I have to give. The sixth book of The Fifth Place is finally published. This is the penultimate entry in the series, paving the way for the endgame, the final showdown. Our antiheroes start this book in a really bad way, and it’s…
I can’t believe I haven’t posted here since December. I’m sorry, I’ve just had no good news until now, where it’s all piled up at once. I’ve been working away reformatting The Fifth Place series into new editions, re-editing DANCER, working on SAVANA and making sure that too is up to scratch. I accepted I…
I know, I know – it’s been a long time with no news. This is because I haven’t had any of interest to give. I’ve been focused on two things: 1) The fourth book of India Bones, and 2) Picking with a fine-tooth comb through the whole of that pirate fantasy series with my excellent…
Alright, so this might be considered a bit of an odd blog post. But music has always been a big influence on my books. Especially for The Fifth Place. So as I was/am writing them, I’m at the same time making accompanying playlists (that occasionally get added to even years later). These are where inspiration…
N.B. I have not read the book by Colson Whitehead; this is about the Amazon Prime show. I’ve gone through it slowly, with breaks, on account of its nature. It’s not an ordinary slave narrative – it has significant elements of magical realism, not to mention alt-history and retrofuturism (reminding you of things like the…