Well, the big one is back to school now, so hopefully I will have more time for writing again.

I also finally finished my doodle. I’m not much of a digital artist, but at least it is a lot less messy than my explorations into watercolours and lino art!

May I introduce you to these three lovely idiots, left to right, Eaton Poole, the nephew of the imprisoned thimmaru leader of the undead rebels, Marla Black, the star apprentice of the assassin’s tower, and Davon ‘Little Tyrant’ Wicksted, the young king of Avillea.

I have spent a lot of time with them over the past year, and I look forward to introducing them properly to the world, even as I wrangle with the second book in the trilogy. I had a lot of fun drawing them, too, so I might even try making a few more pictures!

I have also been surreptitiously writing a new dark fantasy novel, The Mudborn Twins, even though I promised myself that I wasn’t going to start any new projects until the first draft of Prowler was finished. But, sometimes I think that big projects need to go through a gestation period, too, and it is OK to work on other books whilst they’re simmering. (Maybe.)

I really will try to do some more of Prowler now that the big one is back in school though.

OK, see you later. Happy September one and all!