Here We Go Again…

This is my website. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Hello, thank you for visiting my brand new internet home. It’s been a lot of work over the last few months, but finally the moment has come to release this critter into the wilds. We’ve strapped a monitor to its back, let’s see where it takes us.

Right off the mark I would like to thank Pete Borlace for the design work he has done, and Darren Turpin for the web management. There will be a future post looking at the development of the site in more detail. The biggest thanks have to go to my partner, office manager and newly elevated web guru, Kez. Not only is she the mother of my child, she is the mother of my new website!

It is, of course, all shiny and fresh, which also means there might be the odd spot where the paint hasn’t dried yet. We’ll be tinkering and updating things for a while, I expect, and we would love to hear what visitors think. All suggestions and comments welcome. The best way to do that would be through the new Contact page. We are keen to get feedback from anyone with accessibility issues as we would like to make the site as inclusive as possible.

I’m going to be covering the different elements of the site over the next few weeks, explaining our thinking and basically waffling on a bit too much, but here’s the quick tour.

First of all, please sign up for the mailing list. The newsletter will be about once a month, with the occasional extracurricular special missive for important announcements. As well as getting you the highlights of what’s been happening, the Gavmail (working title) will bring you exclusive news, early event and release information, free extracts and even some full fiction pieces. On top of that everyone on the mailing list will be in with a chance of winning signed goodies, as we’ll be holding a regular prize draw (the first book you can win is a copy of the third and final book in my Legacy of Caliban trilogy, The Unforgiven).

Elsewhere you will find the new incarnation of the Blog – expect the usual mix of event news, random stuff, hobby musings, pictures of irrelevant things, new releases information and other updates.

The Books section contains a lengthy (but not quite exhaustive) guide to every piece of fiction and non-fiction I have written over the last twenty years or so. This will be updated with upcoming and new releases as and when the information is made public (I know you see some dates on Amazon first, but they aren’t always set in stone…).

I would like to thank anyone that posts a review or rating online, whether good, bad or indifferent. Taking that time really does support authors and also helps your fellow readers. If you have published a review (or have seen one) that you think I will want to link to, the Contact form is your new best friend.

I have a selection of pages on my Games work, focussing on big or recent projects for the time being (such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, and Open Combat). More than just a catalogue, this section includes some thoughts from me on my involvement with each game. This is work-in-progress and I hope to find the time to expand this considerably, going back to projects like the first Sister of Battle codex, Digganob, the last Warhammer Armies book I worked on, and so forth.

And then we get to Writing Advice. The page itself prefaces this well, so I don’t need to repeat that here. Basically this is a streamed tag search for all of my current and archived blog posts that contain even a smidgeon of advice about writing, getting published or coping with life as a freelance pirate on the creative seven seas.

The same is true of the Interviews section: a condensed list of all the interviews I have done, including podcasts and such. I am sure there are some out there we didn’t find, so if I’ve done an interview with you before and it isn’t here please get in touch. This is also a good time to remind any podcasters and website owners that I am always happy to take part in shows and interviews (schedule permitting) so don’t hesitate to get in touch and ask.

Thank you for coming along on the ride.