With the recent release of The Covenant, I thought it was time to plug my other books. To celebrate this release, and a refresh of my back catalogue, I have tried to streamline prices across all books, individually by each country. This should make me e-books at least (and some of the paperbacks) significantly cheaper …
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The Covenant Unleashed
The book is now live. It is quite an auspicious day, since we’ve just entered March where I live, and once again, the Roman god of war seems to have his fill of violence and bloodshed. The Covenant can be purchased as an ebook, softback or hardback, with my thanks to all for your patience. …
The Dawn Breaks
Second star to the right, and straight on ’til morning… J.M Barrie, Peter Pan. All of January, and much of February is now gone. Where have I been? The usual, under the weather with whatever bloody awful flu or virus can be had. It’s put me out and held me up, no mistake – but …
Got You Covered
My man, the one and only (and recently award-winning – congrats Ken!) Ken Dawson over at Creative Covers has come through with some draft ideas for the cover of Covenant, my verisimilitude-thick, vampire-action coagulated, urban fantasy that combines John Steakley with Mi5. Still not sure on the actual title, might have to add ‘The’ or …
Deuteragony
Deuteragonist: deu·ter·ag·on·istnoun: the person second in importanceto the protagonist in a drama. Oxford Language Dictionary The Covenant is a bit special for me, since it features the two halves of the same coin: the first POV and character of the protagonist (Robert Knight), is joined by what essentially is a second protagonist who is supposedly …
Dusk Before Dawn
“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” Victor Hugo So what does Covenant have that others don’t? If you’ve read my previous post, you’ll understand what I aspire to with this novel, standing at circa 100,000 words – a foray into a parallel, mostly hidden society of immortal bloodsuckers who co-habit …
Schrodinger’s Book
It exists, but also not quite. Andy McNab meets Abraham Van Helsing in this (soon to be) Christmas Cracker. It should perhaps be considered like Die Hard: an action film set at Christmas, but I don’t know if that makes it a Christmas film?! I’ve been slaving away on this for a while now, and …
Scorch Dearth
Sounds like a Napalm Death album. I write with reference to my on-off, on-off love/hate affair with my Vampire Urban Thriller The Covenant. Last week I tore it to shreds, scrapping a 70,000-word bowl of utter dog water, down to something I could work with. I had just over 10,000 words left. Killing your darlings …
Perspective Matters
Happy New Year everyone 🙂 Beware: Rambling wall of text incoming! My Vampire action novel, The Covenant is kicking my backside. The reason for this is that it’s old, so I’m overhauling it and have pared it back from 60,000 words to about 20,000 so far. Unfortunately, because I am a witless hack, I wrote …
Opening Shots
The Beginning is the most important part of the Work. Plato, The Republic. I didn’t like the opener to Covenant, so I binned the post and decided to talk about the space-time continuum for two days. I can imagine this may have been enlightening but also quite boring for those not planning a star-spanning epic, …
Mightier Is The Pen 