It’s coming…
Beasts of Wildlands: Tales From Vasini II will arrive on 19 January 2023.
Further details to come, but for now here is the cover…
Beasts of the Wildlands cover reveal
A quick note
Hi all,
Just a quick note to say that the Kindle edition of The Cities Beyond the Signal, my portal fantasy novella, is on sale for the next seven days.
UK people, you can pick it up for 99p here.
US people, you can pick it up for 99c here.
You have until 12am GMT/PST on Monday 7 November.
In other news
Keep an eye out for a new blog post about Beasts of the Wildlands: Tales From Vasini II this Thursday (3 November).
Three things
Hello,
Apparently it was June the last time I wrote on my blog, and then it was just a quick note on a Goodreads giveaway and two short paragraphs on where I was with writing and editing my works in progress.
This time though, I have a little more news with the promise of more news to come.
The Silver Mask sale
First, to the thing of immediate interest…
US and UK people — you can get The Silver Mask on Kindle for cheap for the next seven days.
UK people, it’s 99p and can be found here.
US people, it’s 99c and can be found here.
It’s a great chance to try out The Vasini Chronicles and find out about the world of Vasini ahead of…
Beasts of the Wildlands: Tales From Vasini II coming soon
The second Tales From Vasini book is finally coming in January 2023.
Beasts of the Wildlands will consist of two novellas — The Hunters and In the Ruins of the Deities.
More details — release date, cover, blurb — will come in the next few weeks.
But, yay! It’s coming and soon.
Looking back through my blog, it looks like I started work on the first of the two novellas back in 2017. So, it’s taken five years to get here.
And then…
Now that Beasts of the Wildlands will soon be out in the world, I’ll be turning my attention to editing Tales From Vasini III. Hopefully there won’t be as a big a gap between Tales From Vasini II and III as there was between A Divided River (Tales From Vasini I – 2017) and Beasts of the Wildlands (Tales From Vasini II – 2023)
Work on the first draft of The Vasini Chronicles III continues. It’s currently around 130,000 words. By my estimate, it will be about 155,000 to 160,000 when the draft is finished so I’m close to the final stretch. But my word count estimates are always wrong, so we’ll see. If all goes well — and fingers crossed it will — I should be done on the first draft by the new year. Fingers crossed.
The Theatre of Shadows giveaway
US people,
Nearly a year has passed since The Theatre of Shadows, the second part of the Vasini Chronicles, went out into the world.
To celebrate, I’m running a Goodreads giveaway. You have a chance to win one of 100 Kindle editions.
You can enter here.
You have until 15 July to enter.
And in other news…
The Vasini Chronicles III is still being written. It’s passed the 100,000 word mark and there’s still a few chapters to write until I have a complete draft.
I’m coming to end of working on the latest draft of Beasts of the Wildlands: Tales From Vasini II. This will hopefully mean I can move onto the copy edit, then a bit of proofreading and then it should — if all goes well — be in a position to go out into the world. Many digits crossed for that.
The Theatre of Shadows out now on Apple Books
Hi All.
The Theatre of Shadows: The Vasini Chronicles II is out now on Apple Books. It’s available here if you’re in the UK or on your local Apple Books store if you’re not.
It’s still available to buy on Kindle and in paperback. (For those outside of the UK, please try your local Amazon store.)
The adventures of Drs. Marcus Fox & Elizabeth Reid continue…
In the two centuries since the fall of the deities, only a score of city-states have risen from the ashes of their destruction. Foremost amongst them is Vasini — a city divided by politics, class, and philosophies. A city with a threat in every shadow.
Six months have passed since the events of The Silver Mask. Over the winter months, Vasini was plagued by Gareth Miller, the Winter Fayre Killer, who murdered 17 people before he was captured by Lieutenant David Locke. The city now waits for Miller to be hanged. But when Miller escapes gaol, ready to terrorise Vasini’s streets once more, Locke must hunt the murderer again to stop him from claiming more lives.
As Miller flees into Vasini’s streets, Joseph Bastin, ambassador to Vasini for the city-state of Laège, is assassinated in a brothel. With the threat of political repercussions for the death, it is up to Dr. Marcus Fox, newly appointed Commandant of Police, to find the ambassador’s killer.
Fox’s investigation soon leads to a suspect, someone who has been investigating links between the Laège embassy and the worship of the dead deities – his ally, Dr. Elizabeth Reid.
Now, Elizabeth and her friend, Catherine, must act quickly to clear her name before she is found by someone who doesn’t believe her claims of innocence and she’s forced to dance the hangman’s jig.
But these events are only a prelude for what is to come.
The stage is set. The actors are in position. The play can begin.
The Theatre of Shadows is the second part of The Vasini Chronicles, a series of flintlock-and-alchemy fantasy novels set in the city-state of Vasini.
The Silver Mask Giveaway
For those in the US, there’s three days left of my Goodreads giveaway of The Silver Mask: The Vasini Chronicles I. You can enter here for a chance to win one of a hundred Kindle editions. The giveaway ends on 21 April.
The Silver Mask Goodreads Giveaway
Hello, a quick blog post to let US people know that I’m running a Goodreads Giveaway of my flintlock fantasy The Silver Mask, part 1 of The Vasini Chronicles. You can enter here for a chance to win 1 of 100 Kindle editions. You have until 21 April.
The gods and goddesses are dead, killed two hundred years ago.
With their destruction the moon split apart, the sun dwindled and the land was devastated. Civilisation has re-emerged from the carnage, but twisted creatures still prowl the savage Wildlands between the city-states.
In the skies above the city of Vasini, a falling star, a fragment of the dead moon goddess Serindra, heads to earth. In the Palace district, Dame Vittoria Emerson, darling of the city, has been found dead, lying amongst her own vomit.
As Captain Marcus Fox of the Inspectorate hunts the killer, Dr. Elizabeth Reid searches for the remnants of Serindra determined to make sure the poisonous quicksilver it contains is not used. With Vittoria’s death threatening to draw the city’s political elite into a war of assassins, Fox and Reid must rush to expose the secrets that lie within Vasini before they tear the city-state apart.
The Silver Mask is the opening part of The Vasini Chronicles, a series of flintlock-and-alchemy fantasy novels set in the city-state of Vasini.
The Theatre of Shadows on Apple Books
The Theatre of Shadows, the second part of The Vasini Chronicles, will be available on Apple Books from 18 April, you can pre-order it now. You can find it here if you’re in the UK or on your local Apple Books store.
In other news
Whilst I’m here, a very quick update on some of the things I’m working on.
I’m now 94k words into writing The Vasini Chronicles III. I’m past half way on the first draft, but it’s looking more and more like it’s going to be longer than I originally thought it would be. I should know by now that everything ends up longer than I expect it to be.
Beasts of the Wildlands – Tales From Vasini II – is being edited. It needs a little bit more work than I hoped it would, but I’m getting closer to being able to put it out into the world.
And now it’s 2022
A little late, but Happy New Year, all. I hope 2022 hasn’t already destroyed the spark of hope that can come with the change in year.
So, 2021 happened, and I finally managed to publish The Theatre of Shadows: The Vasini Chronicles II.
On that note:
UK folks, The Theatre of Shadows will be available for £1.99 on Kindle until 12am 20 January GMT – you can find it here.
US folks, it’s currently $2.99 on Kindle until 12am 20 January PST – you can find it here.
So, what’s coming up for me this year?…Who knows. But here’s what I’m currently working on.
I’m 75k words into writing The Vasini Chronicles III, which means I’m hopefully past half way done on the first draft.
Beasts of the Wildlands – Tales From Vasini II – will soon be taken out of the draw for another edit and after that I should know how much work is left before it can go out into the world.
I’ve managed a first edit of Tales From Vasini III, but it will likely be sitting in the virtual draw until Beasts of the Wildlands is close to publication.
As a bit of a break from all the Vasini-related stuff, I’ve also been looking at my supernatural noir that has been sitting in the draw for the past few years. Still like it (very much), still (very much) want to see it published one day, still not quite sure how.
A short pause
Back in August I posted about editing Tales From Vasini II: Beasts of the Wildlands.
I recently finished another draft and this one is now with someone to have a little look at.
While I wait to hear what they think, I’m having a look at Tales From Vasini III – the first time since I finished the first draft.
So, what can I tell you about it apart from it involving some murders around the Vasini docklands (and its working title is Murders in the Docklands)?
Well:
- It’ll consist of three interconnected novellas
- The current draft is 74,120 words
- It will cover the summer months in Vasini after the events of The Theatre of Shadows
- It will tie up a loose end from The Theatre of Shadows
And that’s about all I should tell you for now. After all, there’s a whole Tales From Vasini to come before it.
The Cities Beyond the Signal – Goodreads giveaway
Dear US people,
It’s almost a year since The Cities Beyond the Signal, my portal fantasy novella, was released into the world.
To celebrate, I’m running a Goodreads giveaway. There’s a chance for you to win one of 100 Kindle editions of the novella.
You can enter here.
You have until 8 October.
Good luck.
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