In the far-off days of the 1990s, I wrote a horror story about a man who developed a taste for eating faeries, and how the faeries had to band together to bring him down.

I kinda touched on humans VS faeries again in a brief scene in my book Crow's Meal.

Apparently this is a recurring theme with me, so I thought: why not make it a feature-length story? This was the genesis of upcoming new book (presently editing): faeries VS humans (not the actual title!) Written from the faeries' perspective and scaled up to make it a larger conflict from the original concept, with all the lore and world-building that entails.

Basically, we follow a group of faeries who go from a peaceful forest-dwelling, cultivate-pretty-gardens kind of folk to a bunch of tiny warriors and mages in order to defend their home from human incursion. No Tinkerbells in sight!

I've had crazy fun writing it. It's not horror, eschewing the approach of my original. Instead, it's fantasy and probably as close to all-audiences as I will ever write (still violent and occasionally a bit ghoulish, though, so not for the young'uns). It was pretty great to write from the perspective of tiny, winged people rather than humans - really changes up and reinvigorates the action sequences, for instance!

In any case, I'm announcing it early, even though it's in its non-edited infancy, because I'm excited about this one and I believe in it. So if you like faeries, keep your eyes open for this one!

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