Noel Coughlan's Blog

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Still working on Fatal Invasion. It’s amazing looking back at how long I have lived with this story. No Escape, the short story that started the series, was published in 2017. Work on Fatal Shadow started later that year, so I have been working on the series for eight years. Back then, it was called The Knotted Man. Glad I changed it. Often my first draft titles change. The first draft of the Golden Rule Duology (A Bright Power Rising/The Unconq...

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(Warning: This a horror story.)

She slew all three before he woke.

Still clutching the wet knife, she stood at the passage tomb’s silent heart, barely able to breathe in expectation of his waking as the grave’s own dead-cold breath sank through bloodstained clothes into her shivering flesh.

She yelped and almost dropped the knife as he threw off the stone slab before her like a blanket and inhaled the air still moist with staling blood. He rose, a man as tall and straight as the ...

Thanks to everyone who supported the preorder! It was great to see that so many readers are excited as me to continue the adventure.

Just a quick note that Tuesday 8th October is the last day to buy the ebooks of Greater Evil and Gilded Treason at 99c for now.

The third book of Champions of Fate is almost here! The book will be offically released on 6th October. In the meantime, you can preorder it HERE.

The city state of Gyre once lauded Drinith as a hero. Now, she has become its most notorious fugitive.

Two of Gyre’s most powerful oligarchs are murdered the same night, plunging the city into turmoil. Suspicion falls on Drinith. Her home is raided, her friends are arrested, and former allies turn against her.

Betrayal haunts her every ste...

Ten years ago, on the 6th April 2014, I first hit the publish button. for the first time. I had poured my soul into A Bright Power Rising I was about to publish for the guts of twenty years before that. Every step in the publishing process had been painful, delayed and victim to error. Already I had discovered that the original cover that had a glaring typo everyone had missed and had it amended. I always envy those new authors who unbox their first copies of their first book in floods of tears....

Jen yawned as she stood in the back garden in the dark, while her father tinkered with his telescope. Astronomy was Dad’s obsession. Most clear nights, he was out here staring into his little, fat telescope, ignoring his family, but, now and then, guilt made him try to drag Jen outside in a feeble effort to interest her in his hobby.
When the weather didn’t save her, she dissuaded him with a range of excuses. She was tired. She had homework or housework to do. She had a cold. She had a he...