Trying Something New

Hello chaps and chapesses,

Not entirely sure how this whole thing works here. Most people who know me know I'm not big on the whole blog thing but that's mainly because I always wind up thinking I'm yammering on to myself and the dust bunnies that tumble all around me.

So...

I don't have a heck of a lot to say - it's gratifying to see so many ratings on the books, makes me think at least a few are getting out there, being liked, being loathed, and earning the odd shrug of 'meh' from people. That's really all we ever ask for, I think. Not the meh, obviously.

So, this week Variance (in the US) and my own BadPress in the UK are publishing the tangental novel to Silver Solomon's Seal. Silver's been very kind to me over the last few years, having sold something like 45,000 copies in English, and a good few more in German, Spanish, French, Turkish, and Polish so far. I'm hoping people who had a good time with it will check out the new one, it's the same team, but rather than a direct sequel is the first of 3 'origins' novels that build up more of the background and really get into the characters in ways I couldn't in Silver.

Oh yeah and I get to blow things up...

Anyway. I'm planning on doing a series of blogs about things like 'The Terrible Twos' and how you deal will following up a reasonably successful book... about keeping interest and having a butterfly mind and well, lots of odds and sods, assuming people are actually interested and I'm not just chatting away to myself.

So... that's it...

And now for something completely different.

Steve