Category: My writing updates

New Book Out

on amazon my new book has just appeared from Altair Books in Australia. This is COALS & ASH, (Australian setting) the second in what will (I hope) eventually be a loose set of four disaster novels. Each set in a different country, each with mostly different characters, but with the same plague background. VESTIGES OF …

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And the other good news was –

The Certificates of Excellence are out for the (International) Cat Writers Association Awards.Each entry was independently judged by 3 Professional CWA members. Winning a Certificate of Excellence means that the average of those three judges’ scores for the entry is 90 or above. As may be guessed from all that. My Ancient Egypt alternate history …

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New Book Out.

just had an email from Wildside to say that SHERLOCK HOLMES:STRANGE EVENTS has made it to the public arena. Nice timing, as it was a return email, I’d just sent them the next completed Holmes double. Strange Events is a double comprising THE MYSTERY OF THE MISPLACED MOTHER, and THE CASE OF THE VANISHING OMNIBUS. …

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Busy Year, I suspect

Last year I ultimately sold six books and did the revision for most. This year I plan to write three books, offer four, (and I’ll be stuck with the revision for those and one left from last year’s sales.) IF all that comes true and everything is sold and published, I’m going to hit the …

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And another Book (to be) sold

Just happily waiting on contracts – they MAY take a while as Christmas mail-clog is likely to start any minute – but when they arrive I’ll be signing for the sale of my SF/Disaster book, COALS & ASH, set in Australia. It’s sold to Altair Books in Oz, too, and as I’ve worked with the …

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New Books completed

And – fortunately – my illness came AFTER I’d put in a lot of hard writing. My newest Holmes double, FOUND DEAD, comprising DEAD IN A KITCHEN CHAIR, and TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, went to Wildside well before that, and the Mandalay complilation, CATASTROPHE (meant for 2018) and comprising the novellas, DEAD FELL, MEDIUM …

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New Reprint Book Out on Amazon

Yes, QUEEN OF IRON YEARS, my collaborated (Sharman Horwood) alternate history fantasy, is now out again. With a new cover, re-edited (by the estimable Carla at Wildside) and Sir Julius Vogel Award winner of 2013. I don’t count it again on my list if published books, but it’s really great to see it back out …

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New Holmes out – and a possibility of Tuckerisation…

Yes, SHERLOCK HOLMES; FAMILIAR CRIMES is out with Wildside. And for those who may not have run into my system yet, I write doubles. That is two 50,000+ word books in one volume. So Familiar Crimes has two books, each with its own title within that overall title for the volume. I enjoy doing shorter …

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New Poem Out

Quite by accident too. A friend emailed me, partly to show me a new poem of hers. I emailed back, inspired by her poem, with a brief 10 line fantasy one of my own. She snagged that for ALTERED REALITY, the magazine she does. So, ON CONSIDERING ALICIA AUSTIN is out, Interesting how things happen.

New Story in an Anthology

URBAN LEGEND appeared in CRANIAL LEAKAGE Tales from the Grinning Skull Vol. 11 anthology. Nov. 2016. Yes, the print copy finally wandered in, no idea if it was going around in the mail for months or if it was sent after Christmas, but there it was and I’m very pleased. A classy presentation, interesting group …

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