he Gas-Lit Empire is presently like a swan that appears to be motionless, carried along perhaps by the flow of the river. There is little to see from the surface. But under the water its feet are working at a furious pace.

I’m writing this in the few minutes before heading up to Nottingham to visit my publisher. We’ll be consulting about the upcoming launch of The Queen of all Crows. Once this is written I will schedule it to appear on the Facebook Page at 12.30 - by which time I will be at Robot HQ.
Over the last few weeks I was watching as the design of the new cover came together. Yesterday I saw the final version and I am hugely excited. I’m So looking forward to the cover reveal, when I can at last share it with you all.

And there is the little matter of the book that follows QOAC, which will be book 2 of The Map of Unknown Things. Over the last month and a half I’ve written more than 30,000 words of it. As I write, I am making discoveries. And those discoveries are helping me to develop an understanding of what the story is really about. My plan had been to get to a total of 70,000 words by the time university term starts next week. And, remarkably, I seem to be on target. (Writers tend to talk in word numbers. To put that in context, The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter was roughly 87,000 words and QOAC is about 91,000.)

It feels strange to have most of two complete novels written in this new series and yet so few people have read them. QOAC has been...

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