by Neil | Sep 11, 2020 | Books, Fantasy, Uncategorized
I am thrilled to announce my next book, The Alaunt, launches on eBook, exclusive to Amazon, on September 18th. This is the second book of The Shaanti, my debut epic fantasy series and focuses on Anya’s grandfather, Thrace, retired legend of the Shaanti, one of the...
by Neil | Aug 29, 2019 | Books, Fantasy
As many of you will have seen already, I’m excited to announce The Scarred God has been released and is now live in eBook format with the paperback expected in the coming days (I’ll update when this is live). What’s the book about? Anya longs to...
by Neil | Aug 14, 2019 | Books, Fantasy
I can’t quite believe we’re in August. I’m looking forward to a little bit of downtime later this month and so I thought – why not release a book? Yep, The Scarred God will go live on Amazon on 28th August 2019 and this is the cover. What’s this tale about? Who...
by Neil | Sep 25, 2018 | Fantasy, Fiction, free fiction, Free Online Fiction, Writing
As promised, having raised more than £500 for SANDS in August, the audio version of Dragonstar is embedded below. Dragon Star is the story I wrote in the week after we lost our son, scribbled in a notebook, sat at my mother-in-laws and trying to chain the grief in the...
by Neil | Jan 19, 2011 | Diary, Fantasy, Writing
I have just finished the first draft of my current work in progress. The project was/is a contemporary fantasy set in London but also featuring period pieces in Alaska, Boston, Nagasaki and New York. It’s about how long relationships can really last, the nature...
by Neil | Dec 31, 2010 | Books, Comment, Fantasy, Horror, Reading, Review, Science Fiction
This is the first Christmas for the self hosted version of my blog. As was customary on my old internet home, I’d like to take some time to draw your attention to the books I particularly enjoyed reading this year and, looking back, I’m surprised how much...