Hello everyone, Happy March.

Just a brief writing update, to say that I’m currently working through the final edits of Horns of the Hunter at present, after receiving them back from my editor, the extremely talented Sarah Chorn. I’m about 50% through at this point, and with only a few more bits to do aside from the editing – i.e, cover finalisation, internal map, formatting, cover reveal, ARCs, initial reviews etc, I’m finally starting to see the light with this book. Time’s flown, but I started it a year ago next month, and I can’t wait to get it out there at last – the initial responses to it have been absolutely fantastic, encouraging and seriously heartwarming after so many years with no releases under my belt. I’m back y’all!

In between editing Horns of the Hunter, I’m also working on the follow up to it, King of Embers. Presently it’s about about 14,000 words, and as I’ve said previously I’m anticipating a similar length to Horns of the Hunter, or about 70,000-72,000 words all in all. Hopefully I can get it done and out there this year, but if not then early 2022 will probably be when it gets on the shelf.

I’ve got plans for a 3rd book in the series too, which doesn’t have any name other than a loose one floating round my head for the time being, but has a fairly concrete story I can work with. I’ve got some other loose plans for what might be a 4th book or add-on/companion novella to the series too, with a bit of a different take to it, but we’ll get there when we get there with that one.

Also, I recently decided to give monetising my blog a go, as in, I’ve become an amazon affiliate, so you may start to see paid links to amazong pages appearing in some of my posts – don’t worry though, I’m no scammer and I’m not a spammer (as you probably know from the months-long gaps between posts, if you read my blog). It’s just another way to help me make a living from my writing (I get an extra, very small, commission if someone buys one of my books through an affiliate link I share. Every little helps when you’re a writer, trust me) and if I can help direct some traffic to other writers by sharing links to their books or products with my readers then all the better. It’ll all be in-keeping with writing and books though, don’t worry (and also some music, I do enjoy my music and talk about it a lot on here, after all). And, of course, all opinions will remain my own and not be influenced by anything affiliate related.

So, anyway, hopefully Horns of the Hunter will be out roughly around summertime – no set date as of yet (it’s ready when it’s ready), but it won’t be much longer. The next few months, definitely.

SO – a favour to ask – if you’re one of the awesome people who’d like to do me a review, and want to be on the ARC list, drop me a message and I’ll send you an E-ARC when they’re ready to have eyes on ’em!

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with my latest choice in writing music – Hellbound by Pantera. I’ve been rediscovering my youth the last couple of weeks with Pantera, they were one of the first metal bands I ever got truly into when I was 16. Takes me way back. Reinventing the Steel was my fave album by them, and the 20th Anniversary Remaster is an absolute belter, the song takes me way, way back to when I first discovered metal:

(Here’s one of those paid links I mentioned. Yay) If you’re one of the people who still buys phyical copies of music and wanna grab the album yourself, get it here: https://amzn.to/3q8BvRq

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