Category Archives: News

. . . by length, that is. Ethan Sholly has done an in-depth listing of popular fantasy and sci-fi series sorted by their total word counts.  He’s still updating it (and some of the series aren’t finished), but here’s a … Continue reading →

Not much news this week.  I’ve been busy with the rewrite, version 5. ‘Quiet’ is how things are likely to stay for the next couple of months.  Apart from the next German Alex Verus translation (which is releasing in May), … Continue reading →

Well, after seven weeks of notes and planning, I’ve started what I really, really hope is going to be the final rewrite of the new book.  I’ve got this one labelled in my notes as version 5, which should be … Continue reading →

For a while now, the main place for online discussion of the Alex Verus series has been the Alex Verus subreddit.  I occasionally get questions about why I don’t have a forum here on this website – the short answer … Continue reading →

I’ve been spending the past month or so busy with plans for rewriting/rethinking my new series.  It’s been hard work, but interesting. One thing that I’m doing differently with this series than I did with Alex Verus is to plan … Continue reading →

I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks developing a cosmology for my new setting, and figuring out how to tie it into the story. Turns out this kind of thing is a lot of work.  With hindsight, maybe I … Continue reading →

Some bad news for this week, though it does have a silver lining to it. As regular readers know, I’ve been working on a new urban fantasy series as of last summer, and I finished the first draft of Book … Continue reading →

And we’re done!  I finished the first book of my new series earlier this week. One thing that I’ve always found a little amusing about my writing is the way in which I just barely hit deadlines.  It didn’t happen … Continue reading →

Busy with the final scenes of the new book.  I’ve been working on this one pretty obsessively for the past few weeks now, and I’ll be very glad when it’s done. Word count’s at a bit over my usual 90,000, … Continue reading →

My author copies of the German edition of Alex Verus #7 finally arrived today.  A little late (the book was released late last year), but I thought I’d share a picture anyway just as a reminder that while the English … Continue reading →