Hello US people,
I’m running a giveaway of my new flintlock fantasy novel, The Theatre of Shadows: The Vasini Chronicles II, over at Goodreads.
You have a chance to win one of 100 copies of the Kindle edition and be amongst the first to read it.
You can enter here.
You have until 1 July to enter.
Good luck.
The Theatre of Shadows: The Vasini Chronicles II is now available for pre-order on Kindle.
It will be out on Kindle and in paperback from 15 July.
You can pre-order for Kindle it here:
If you’re on Goodreads you can find details and add it to your To Read list here.
If you have yet to step into the world of Vasini there’s plenty of time for you can catch up on things with The Silver Mask: The Vasini Chronicles I and A Divided River: Tales From Vasini I.
The Theatre of Shadows
Book Two of
The Vasini Chronicles
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.
It’s finally coming.
On 15 July 2021, The Theatre of Shadows, the second part of The Vasini Chronicles will finally be out in the world.
More details will be available in the coming weeks, but, for now, here’s the cover:
My portal fantasy novella, The Cities Beyond the Signal, is now available on Apple Books. You can find it here if you’re in the UK or on your local Apple Books store.
Have a read and, maybe, if the urge takes you, leave a review on Apple Books or Goodreads (or both).
…ish – hopefully.
The proofreading of The Theatre of Shadows: The Vasini Chronicles II is underway. It will take a little time and, until its complete, I’m not going to risk saying when ToS will actually be out in the world, but we’re in the final stretch. Finally.
And coming later…I finished writing the first draft of the third novella for Tales From Vasini III. There’s a lot of work to do on it, which will have to wait until The Theatre of Shadows is wrapped up and I’ve done some editing on the stories for Tales From Vasini II. Next on the list of things to write is The Vasini Chronicles III. And then, after that, maybe something non-Vasini related.
Hi All,
The Cities Beyond the Signal will be available on the Apple Books store from 12 April 2021 and is available to pre-order now.
You can find it in the UK store here.
For those outside of the UK, please try your local Apple Books store.
It has been three years since Alex travelled to the city between the books, that cold, bleak place haunted by the monkey-beast. Three years and it has become a dream, a hidden memory that is easily passed off as make believe.
Now graduated from university, Alex is struggling to find a job. Until she receives an enigmatic email inviting her to an interview, but with no information on who the job is for and what it involves.
Desperate for employment, Alex feels she has to go. After all, what’s the worst that can happen?
But a cryptic radio signal is going to draw her into a new adventure. What started in that cold, bleak city is going to lead Alex on a rescue mission through stranger and more dangerous places.
The Cities Beyond the Signal is a novella-length sequel to the story The City Between the Books.
I hope 2021 is treating you better than 2020.
I just wanted to mention that if you were thinking of reading The Cities Beyond the Signal via Kindle Unlimited, you have until 5 April. It will still be available to buy on Kindle after that point.
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