Author Archives: Benedict

Release Week

Well, it’s been a long wait, but we’re finally into release week!  An Inheritance of Magic is released in the UK and worldwide next Thursday, on the 5th of October. Sorry for the relatively sparse content the past few weeks … Continue reading

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Page Chewing Interview

Another interview for this week, this one with Steve at Page Chewing.  I enjoyed this one, he’s a very easy-going host. We’re inching closer and closer to the release of An Inheritance of Magic – UK release is less than … Continue reading

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Fantology Interview is Live

Post is a little late this week since I was waiting for the Fantology interview to go up.  It’s now live, and you can listen to it here!  We talk about Alex Verus and An Inheritance of Magic.

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Fantology Alex Verus Video Reviews

For a few months now, Fantology, a podcast focused on fantasy books, has been doing video reviews of the Alex Verus series.  I just did an interview with them where they asked me questions about Alex Verus and Inheritance of … Continue reading

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Low Content For A While

Book #2 in the Inheritance of Magic series is with my publishers.  I sent it off last weekend;  now I just have to wait to hear back. Unfortunately this is also going to mark the start of a slower period … Continue reading

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Audiobook Release 10th October

Just a brief post today to let you know that we’ve now got a narrator for An Inheritance of Magic, and I’ve been told by my publisher that the US audio edition should be released at the same time as … Continue reading

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Chapter 2 is up, Book 2 is done

The second chapter for An Inheritance of Magic is now online!  You can read it here. For those of you who missed Chapter 1, here’s the link to that as well. And the first draft of the sequel to An … Continue reading

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Covers, Audiobooks, and Chapter 2

So we’re now 2 months away from the release of An Inheritance of Magic, and we’ve come to the end of the introductory series of worldbuilding articles (they’ve only scratched the surface of the new setting, with a lot more … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #4:  Wells

Creating a sigl requires an enormous quantity of essentia, and the only place where so much essentia can naturally be found is at a Well. Despite its name, a Well is not created in the same way as a human-dug … Continue reading

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #3:  Sigls

Sigls and the effects they create are the ‘finished product’ of drucraft.  Essentia comes first, Wells come second, and drucrafters come third – the creation of sigls is the second-to-last link at the end of a very long chain.  When … Continue reading

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