Monthly Archives: August 2025

Just finishing off Chapter 16 of Inheritance of Magic #4.  Once that’s done there’s a final section of 3 chapters or so, and then we’ll be done. This book’s been quite a struggle to get through.  Part of it might … Continue reading →

As those of you who’ve read An Instruction in Shadow will know, towards the end of the book Stephen gets hold of a mysterious coded letter.  I didn’t include the decoded version since it wasn’t necessary for the story (chronologically, … Continue reading →

Okay, having taken a look at the responses from last week, I think I’ll go with chronological order for the extracts.  So:  decoded letter first (since Stephen does that first), followed by Chapter 1, then Chapter 2. I’ll post the … Continue reading →

We’re now getting into the run-up to the release of Inheritance of Magic #3, A Judgement of Powers, and I’m at the stage of deciding what I’ll be releasing on the blog.  As usual I’ll be releasing the first couple … Continue reading →

For this week, I thought I’d do something a little different.  For a while now the Czech publisher Fantom Print has been putting out translations of the Alex Verus series.  They’re currently up to book 6, so here are the … Continue reading →