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November 2, 2020
Once upon a time in St Petersburg…
Once upon a time I wrote four novels set in Russia in the nineteenth century. Not only that, I stole my main character from one of the masterpieces of world literature. What was I thinking? I blame my agent, who said ‘That could work’ when I pitched the idea of writing ONE book featuring the investigating …
October 30, 2020
Virtual Reading
I can’t get out there to do in person events, so I decided to do a virtual reading for my novel, Fortune’s Hand.
October 11, 2020
Thinking about history and myth-story
I’ve spent the last few weeks writing posts and articles about Walter Raleigh to help promote my novel Fortune’s Hand. The first of them have started to appear. My thanks to all those who have agreed to host my musings. Here’s one on Heidi Malagisi’s blog. And another on Tony Riches’ blog.
September 12, 2020
Chapter headings for Fortune’s Hand
Oakfast. Seedburst. Crossing. War. A damask sea. Cozening. Drunk on geography. The new Aphrodite. The savage tongue. Solar alchemy. The Great Comet. Lunar alchemy. The Presence Chamber. Gallows fly. A very pirate. Poor John. Aboard the admiral. Tar. Cannonshot. The Paradoxal Compass. Tennis. Making ink. A dozen devils. For a suit of clothes. Conjuring enemies. The Golden Fort. Very well. This. Letters. Groans. Further examples. Wintergreen. Revels. She gives. The old cob house. I am Water. Whither? Whispers. Fall. The whiff of treasure. Ripples. Have with you to Walsingham. Backwater. Ebbtide. Undertide. Dreamtide. Lowtide. Woetide. Bloodtide. Meta Incognita. Wind-whipped. Best hated. Hellburners. Politic. For what …
September 6, 2020
The Elephant in the Room.
To judge by the majority of its Amazon reviews, one book of mine seems to be pretty universally loathed: Summon Up the Blood. It’s fair to say that people hate it. They hate it so much that they feel compelled, more than with any of my other books, to go on Amazon and leave a …
August 22, 2020
Researching Fortune’s Hand II
Here are some of the books I consulted when I was researching Fortune’s Hand. They range from biographies of Raleigh (or Ralegh as he is more ‘correctly’ spelled) and other notable figures of the period, to general histories and studies of specific aspects of the life at that time. It’s by no means an exhaustive …
August 21, 2020
Researching Fortune’s Hand I
Fortune’s Hand is fiction, not history. In writing it, I was trying to imagine what it must have been like to see the world through Walter Raleigh’s eyes. Now you may say that’s an insane thing to attempt and I wouldn’t necessarily argue with you. But for whatever reason, that’s what I did. So it’s …
August 18, 2020
Fortune’s Hand published today!
I’m really excited to announce the publication of a new novel, Fortune’s Hand. It will be available as ebook first of all, with a paperback on the way soon for those of you who like to hold a physical book in your hands. Here’s the blurb: “An extraordinary excursion into the past by a master …
August 1, 2020
Big book giveaway
That is to say, it’s a big giveaway of books, rather than a giveaway of big books. The books are all normal sized and they’re sitting on my vanity shelf. I have decided to give away 10 of them. They will be from across my range of titles. To enter all you have to do …
June 24, 2020
Trailer park.
I’ve brought together the animated trailers for the first five of my Silas Quinn novels. You could call it a trailer park. So here they are (in reverse order):
