20 Years After…
Can it really be twenty years since the first book of The Tears of Artamon was published? Amazon reminds me that it was my first novel to be published in the States (thanks to my editor Anne Groell) and thanks to the wonderful cover by Stephen Youll in those pre-social media days when there was no such thing as a cover reveal, online blog tour and online book bloggers were only just beginning to appear. Goodreads was yet to appear (it launched in 2007) and writers were very much dependent on word-of-mouth (rather than word of BookTok or BookTube) and the kindness of booksellers and magazine reviewers. And, of course, no Kindle or digital editions.
This first novel was originally entitled Drakhaoul but I was asked by my editor to provide a different title that wouldn’t cause potential readers to scratch their heads and wonder how to pronounce it!
So, Happy Birthday to the people of The Tears of Artamon – and I hope that more readers will spend time with them in the next twenty years or so…
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