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The Shadow War
Getting close to the end of this book now. It’s the seventh book in The Fourth Age of Shanakan and covers the period of Cal Serhan’s exile from his world. This is, essentially, what happened while he was gone, and connects with the end of The Path of Thirteen Steps….
The Path of Thirteen Steps
Good news for all you that follow my writing. The next book: The Path of Thirteen Steps, has been published today. This is the sixth book in The Fourth Age of Shanakan and follows on from The Wanderer. It relates Cal Serhan’s adventures in London and his struggle to return…
More Books
The Wanderer, the fifth book in The Fourth Age of Shanakan, is now available as a paperback and e-book on Amazon. But there’s more. The sixth book – The Path of Thirteen Steps – is now at the editing stage. In addition I have begun the Seventh: Working title –…
The Wanderer
Happy Christmas to all. Just a brief post to announce that “The Wanderer” the fifth book in “The Fourth Age of Shanakan” is now available at an e-book on Amazon. There is a small issue with the paperback cover, but that will follow in a little while. The Wanderer continues…
The Wise Monkey
In ‘The Dragon Prince’, Jiang is asked why he named his ship The Wise Monkey. By way of explanation, he tells this story: Very long ago, before there was an empire, there was a JinTo priest who left his city and went into the forest because he believed that it…
The Wanderer
The fifth book in The Fourth Age of Shanakan – The Wanderer – has reached the end of the first draft stage. It’s just over a hundred thousand words. The next stage is editing, so I’ll be going through the manuscript over the next couple of weeks trying to find…
Clockheart
The e-book version of the third Derakwa book, Clockheart, is now in review with Amazon and should be available to download within 24 hours. I’m also ploughing ahead with the fifth Shanakan book. About three quarters of the way through. I’ll probably complete the first draft some time in September.
The Seventh Friend
I am unreasonably fond of myths and legends. So much so that, from time to time, I invent such tales and insert them into stories. In “The Seventh Friend” the title refers to an inn and the regiments that rise from that inn. The name was chosen by Cain Arbak,…
Back to the Beginning
It is, perhaps, a strange thing to do, but I’ve just finished reading the first book I wrote: Shanakan. It’s been over a decade since I wrote it and I did have a reason. I’ve just started writing book five in that series and I wanted to get back into…