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Chapter 1 of Burned is now available!  You can read it here. Only a month to go now – the book will be out on April 5th in the US, and April 7th in the UK.

Word count: 90k. Sections completed: 4 and a bit. Sections still to be completed: less than 1 (or at least I REALLY hope so). Title: let’s finish the book first, okay? Mood: very busy. Deadline: way too close. The saga … Continue reading →

Word count:  80k. Sections of Alex Verus #8 that have been completed:  4. Sections of Alex Verus #8 still to be completed:  1. Title decided:  no. Mood:  busy. Further bulletins as events warrant.

We’re coming into the last month of Alex Verus #8, at least if everything goes to plan.  Currently the manuscript is at a touch under 80,000 words, so if I keep to schedule and the book ends up at a … Continue reading →

And off we go into another year of writing.  2015 saw me publish one book (Veiled), finish writing another (Burned), and get most of the way through the next.  By the time this year comes to a close and 2016 … Continue reading →

Happy Christmas from everyone in the Alex Verus world.  It’s been a good year for me, hope the same’s been true for you!

We’re now slightly over the halfway mark for the time I’ve marked out for writing Book 8.  I started at the beginning of October, and my deadline is the end of February, so the middle of December marks the 50% … Continue reading →

So Alex Verus #8 is on schedule, and sitting at around 45,000 words – this probably means we’re about halfway done, since each Alex Verus novel typically comes in at around 90k or so for the completed version.  (Burned was … Continue reading →

We did the US cover a couple of weeks back, and now here’s Alex Verus #7, Burned, in its UK clothes! As with the US cover, there’s a bit of a change of style for this one, though you’ll probably … Continue reading →

Here’s the US cover for the seventh Alex Verus novel, Burned! Up until now, the US covers have followed a colours-of-the-rainbow theme, with orange for Fated, blue for Cursed, purple for Taken, yellow for Chosen, red for Hidden, and green … Continue reading →