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2011 – the year of edits

This time last year we were buried in snow, and edits. This year Christmas day was something like 20 degrees warmer than last years and the holiday has in general been a bit more rushed and fraught, and oddly enough, ill. Tummy bugs and the head cold from hell forced us to hibernate almost as [...]

The Wolf's Destiny, an excerpt for the holidays

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday. As a bit of a Christmas present, and perhaps for some post breakfast/lunch/dinner reading, here's the opening of The Wolf's Destiny, book three of A Tale of the Holtlands. In The Wolf's Sister, Jeren and Shan met when she fled her brother Gilliad's realm, fearing his growing insanity. [...]

Planning a present – a free read alert

In all the whirl of preparing for Christmas, I fear I've been neglecting my poor blog. The holidays, however you spend them, are usually fairly hectic for us all. So here's what I'm going to do – on Christmas morning you will be able to read an excerpt from The Wolf's Destiny right here. If [...]

The Wolf's Destiny for Kindle

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Out now: The Wolf's Destiny

Or… Ok, so you didn't have to wait as long as my paranoia anticipated! The Wolf's Destiny: a tale of the Holtlands Book 3 is now available on Smashwords. Over the next while it will be available in other places too, but if you want it now (and if you've read The Wolf's Sister and [...]

Coming Soon: The Wolf's Destiny – cover reveal

The Wolf's Destiny is the final part of my series featuring Jeren and Shan (The Wolf's Sister and The Wolf's Mate, which were collected in the print edition Songs of the Wolf).  In order to get this one out, I had to light the gnat-signal and my writing friends came through for me yet again. [...]

Proofs–it exists!

It's almost a real book! I now have 5 whole copies to play with. Most of them are spoken for, alas. But they are sooooo pretty. I believe that copies may be available for review from the Penguin Young Readers group though, but I can't swear to that. This is the official bit: If you [...]

Loughcrew – the research trip that wasn't

So I promised to post about Loughcrew, or the stop off on our journey home from Ashford Castle where we did this.                   A rather important scene in my WIP is set in the Hag's Cairn on Slieve na Cailleach (Loughcrew), and so I kindly suggested, as [...]

A May Tree in November

The May Tree, or Hawthorn, or the Fairy Tree features in my novel THE TREACHERY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS. The tradition is to tie a rag or ribbon to the tree and make a wish. It's a gnarled, thorny little tree, with the most beautiful white flowers in springtime and bright red berries in autumn. It [...]

Post Octocon post – or help, my brain is still missing

So this weekend just gone I was at the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin for the annual wonder that is Octocon, the Irish National Science Fiction Convention. It's a fun and friendly convention, always trying new things, always something different and this year was no exception. Friday night was the traditional get together in the [...]