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December 14, 2021
The Crown of the Iutes – Map Reveal
In 10 days, on Christmas Eve, “The Crown of Iutes” will be released on Kindle. It is time to reveal the main map for the book: Northern Gaul, comprising of the Domain of Gauls, under Syagrius, and the lands of its neighbours – the Franks, the Armoricans and the Goths of Tolosa.
December 9, 2021
The Crown of the Iutes – locations
Yes, it’s that time of the pre-publishing cycle when I write a post about all the locations used in the upcoming book, The Crown of the Iutes. A large part of the Crown takes place in the already familiar corner of Britannia – Londin, Cantiaca, the land of the Regins. But the central story takes […]
November 15, 2021
Beautiful Dreamers
We Couldn’t Become Adults, dir. Yoshihiro Mori, Netflix, 2021 “How many times have you seen ‘Beautiful Dreamer’?” “Maybe twice.” “That’s all? (…) I always played it while I was home.(…) Don’t you think the movie’s really nice? It’s always the day before the school festival. Could there be anything better?” Urusei Yatsura 2: Beatiful Dreamer […]
October 17, 2021
News, news, news (aka, I’ve been working)!
For most of the last half-year I’ve been mostly working on patiently carving out the main draft of the Crown of the Iutes – which has already grown into the longest and most complex book I’ve ever written, as befits the conclusion of Ash and Octa’s long stories. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have […]
August 20, 2021
Why is Kent?
(no, this isn’t about the politics 🙂 ) There’s Sussex, Essex, Wessex and Middlesex. There’s East Angles, split into Northern Folk and Southern Folk – and, once, there were even Middle Angles. There are counties and kingdoms with such undoubtedly English names as Surrey and Mercia. Why, then, in the middle of all this Germanic […]
July 31, 2021
The Song of the Tides – locations
Tomorrow is release day of the Song of Octa novella – or Book “5.5” of the Song of Britain – “The Song of the Tides“. The entire story takes place in Armorica – today’s Brittany. LAUREA – Ile de Brehat WORGIUM – Vorgium, Carhaix-Plouguer GESOCRIBATE – Douarnenez CAIR INIS – Ile Tristan
July 20, 2021
The Song of the Tides – Map Reveal
A simple map this time, for a simple, short story – this is Armorica – today’s Brittany – at the end of the 5th century, just as the old, classic Imperial city names from Tabula Peutingeriana change to common tongue ones, as used in Notitia Dignitatum and later texts. The Song of the Tides – […]
June 30, 2021
Release Day! – “The Wrath of the Iutes”
Today’s the day of another release in the Song of Britain saga – Book 5, “The Wrath of the Iutes” ! The long way back just got longer…. They were supposed to return home as heroes, basking in the glory and plunder of the victory at Trever… But fate decided otherwise for Octa and his band of […]
June 20, 2021
The Wrath of the Iutes – Map Reveal
In 10 days, “The Wrath of the Iutes” will be released on Kindle – and on paperback around the same time – so it’s time to reveal the new map for the 5th book of the Song of Britain saga. “The Wrath…” takes place in Armorica, Isles of Scilly and what is now known as […]
June 14, 2021
“The Wrath of the Iutes” locations
It’s time for another of the “locations” post – I like to think of my books as much as a travelogue as action novels, and the travels of my characters in Book 5 take them to the very north-western edges of the Empire: from Armorica to Northern Wales. “The Wrath of the Iutes” is released […]
