Author Archives: Benedict

The Letter Decoded

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Benedict

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 →

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A Judgement of Powers Extracts

Posted on August 15, 2025 by Benedict

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 →

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A Judgement of Powers – Scheduling Plans

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Benedict

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 →

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Alex Verus Covers – Czech Edition

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Benedict

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 →

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Two Thirds

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Benedict

Inheritance of Magic #4 has just crossed the 60,000 words line, which is about the 2/3rds mark for my manuscripts (they tend to come in at about 90,000, give or take).  Around 6 more chapters and we should be done. … Continue reading →

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A Judgement of Powers – UK Cover Reveal

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Benedict

Here’s the UK cover of the third book in the Inheritance of Magic series, A Judgement of Powers!  Release date is unchanged:  November 4th, 2025.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #40: Corporations (IV)

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Benedict

A few of the most notable non-British and non-American corporations operating within the UK.  Due to the sheer number of such corporations (the list of drucraft companies with an office in London alone would run to pages) this should be … Continue reading →

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No News

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Benedict

Nothing very much to announce this week.  Inheritance of Magic #4 is going slowly, but at least it’s going. Next week will be the last section in the Corporations series, covering non-UK, non-US corps.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #39: Corporations (III)

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Benedict

A brief overview of drucraft corporations that supply the US military.  While the continental USA has strong essentia resources, the US military’s demand for sigls is enormous, and US defence contractors have to go outside North America to meet its … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #38: Corporations (II)

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Benedict

A brief overview of non-military U.S. corporations that trade in the UK. Atlantic A corporation based in New York.  Unlike most drucraft companies, they do not have a shaping department at all and their business is entirely financial.  They buy … Continue reading →

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