Category Archives: News

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 →

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 →

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.

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.

An Instruction in Shadow is now available in the UK in paperback!  For those of you wondering, yes, the book’s been out for most of a year already – it was released in October 2024 – but the UK edition … Continue reading →

Focusing on Inheritance of Magic #4.  Making much better progress but it means I don’t have much time for worldbuilding articles.  I’ll try to get the first part of the Corporations series up for next week.

This has been in the pipeline for a while, but I think it’s now far enough along that it’s safe to announce it:  Alex Verus books 1 & 2, Fated and Cursed, are getting an Arabic translation!  I think we’re … Continue reading →