Category Archives: News

We’re getting closer and closer to the launch of my new series, so here’s the timeline for what’ll be happening over the next four months! 7th July:  On this Friday I’ll be putting up Chapter 1 of An Inheritance of … Continue reading →

Book 2 in my new Inheritance of Magic series is coming along.  It passed the 60,000 word mark this week, which judging the length of past books probably means it’s about 2/3rds done. Unfortunately, this also means there’s no way … Continue reading →

And the US cover of Book 1 of my new series is done!  Here’s the finished version: Release date is unchanged;  it’ll be coming out in the US and Canada on October 10th, 2023. UK version is also close to … Continue reading →

The layout and design for An Inheritance of Magic is now very close to done.  Been looking at cover designs this week – my UK publishers are thinking of going with a gold foil look.  Cover reveals should be soon, … Continue reading →

Some cleanup work on the website for this week – I’ve updated and rearranged the Alex Verus series page.  On a reader’s suggestion, I’ve added a new subheading for the Author Commentaries.  The commentaries were originally intended as a minor … Continue reading →

Some good news for this week!  My German publishers, Blanvalet, have made an offer to publish a German translation of the first books of my new series. At the moment Blanvalet are still working through their backlog of Alex Verus … Continue reading →

Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have noticed that I’ve stopped auto-posting links to these blog posts every Friday.  This is because Twitter’s made some API changes that have caused the app I used to auto-post links … Continue reading →

After an embarrassingly long time, I’ve finally caught up on all my author email.  If you’ve sent me a message through this website, I should have replied to it by now.  (Unless I managed to lose some, which I hope … Continue reading →

Book 2 in the Inheritance of Magic series is 50% done.  At least, that’s my best guess – my books usually come to around 90,000 words and this one’s now sitting at 43,000 and a bit.  Still not sure if … Continue reading →

After almost 12 years, I’ve finally replaced my old author photo with a new one in the About Me section.  I figured that the old image of me was sufficiently out of date by this point that it was about … Continue reading →