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FREEEEEEE!!!!! It’s free! If you haven’t yet got your copy of Confronting the Demon, it’s now free at all major retailers. Quick, go get your copy now, before it’s all gone! About the Book For Alloran, who practised the fine art of frivolity for decades, life just got serious. Framed for the heinous crime of […]

Becoming the Demon has been four years in the making–and now, finally, here is the cover! About the Book Some doors lead to places no man should go. Desperate to rescue Dek after abandoning him in the fifth circle of hell, Alloran’s task is complicated when he is forced to go on the run again. […]

Here it is, the cover for To Make the Dead Weep, the third book in The Sundered Oath series. I am sorry – I know it’s been 16 months since book 2 was released. To Make the Dead Weep is due to go for edits in October, so you can expect to see it available […]

It’s been more than a year since I released my last book, so I probably owe you all an update. I am working on the next book in both of my series. Becoming the Demon is Book 3 in The Seven Circles of Hell and I’ve been working on it off and on since I […]

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OK, so I’ve seen the reality shows about preppers and I always thought they were a little crazy. Prepping for what? The zombie apocalypse seemed highly unlikely, and even economic collapse didn’t seem likely the way international support works these days. Well, One Second After answered that question for me in a big way. Without […]

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So now that we have all seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi (you have, haven’t you? If not, stop now! Here there be spoilers!). Now that we’ve all seen it, we know that Rey’s parents are allegedly ‘nobodies’. The director, Rian Johnson, even came out and said this is true, and he thinks the idea […]

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Do you know why many sequels are dreadful attempts to live up to the glory of the original? Because they are tacked on at the last minute. It’s true that this often primarily to make money off the back of something that was wildly successful, but it’s not that money-hungry motivation that makes them suck […]

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My dark epic fantasy In the Company of the Dead is currently on sale for 99c–act quick, it’s on sale for 2 days only! Get it at all major retailers: Amazon Nook iBooks Kobo About the Book Winner of the Pinnacle Achievement Award–Best Fantasy Book Fall 2016 Only a fool crosses a god, but Ellaeva […]

I know this is supposed to be a Touring Scotland post–in fact, last post was supposed to be a Touring Scotland post, and you got a new cover reveal instead–but I’m in the throes of writing the last few thousand words of the first draft of Becoming the Demon, and I really don’t have the […]

For some time now I haven’t been especially happy with the cover art for Confronting the Demon, my debut novella. If there was something letting the book down, it was the cover. Not that the art is bad, per se–just not right. People would mistake the book for a romance, when it’s high fantasy, or […]