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Mars, Arkham, America and other perilous places
March 3, 2025
Hello from a room that’s increasingly becoming a wall of books against the outside world. I hope you’re as well as can be expected under the Circumstances....
SWORD TRIUMPHANT cover & pre-order, next books, Tolkien ramblings, such matters
January 16, 2025
The cover for THE SWORD TRIUMPHANT, the final book in the Lands of the Firstborn trilogy is out. The Sword Triumphant. Aelfric, less so. ‘Tell the...
Horrors of Crowdfunding, Creativity & Other Tales
November 5, 2024
Obligatory commercial bits first: The Trail of Cthulhu crowdfunder is in its last days; the FiveEvil crowdfunder is just getting started. I’m involved in...
Trail of Cthulhu & Other Horrors
October 14, 2024
The backerkit for Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition launches on Tuesday! The backerkit link is here, and if you sign up for the alert you can grab the Quickstart...
At WorldCon & In Haste
August 6, 2024
I’m just back from GenCon and am packing for WorldCon, so I’ll do a longer convention report for both events later. For now, my WorldCon schedule: THURSDAY...
GenCon, Worldcon, Conclusions, Continuations
July 19, 2024
The Sword Triumphant, the concluding volume in the Lands of the Firstborn trilogy, is done. It’s passed through the tempering fires of the development edit...
The Sword Unbound Is Out! And other things.
June 1, 2024
The Sword Unbound is out! Reviews have been (mostly) positive, sales are (largely) out of my hands. I did a signing in my local Waterstones, and got...
A Spanish Interlude
April 22, 2024
Hello, and welcome to the new subscribers. This one’s even more disjointed than usual, I’m afraid. Between the Spanish Interlude and the absence of any major...
Weeks When Publishing Happens
March 20, 2024
To misquote Stalin. It's been a very busy few weeks in terms of stuff finding readers. THE SWORD UNBOUND is in the hands of reviewers and early readers,...
Cover Art, First Drafts, The Fall of Empires
February 19, 2024
Hello again from Cork. As I said in the last newsletter, I am a very simple creature. I am sad when a book is going badly, and happy when one is going well....
Change your dwarf
December 31, 2023
I am a very simple creature. When a book is going well, I'm happy, and when it's not going well, I'm grumpy. Book 3 of Lands of the Firstborn is not going as...
The People You Dragonmeet
November 28, 2023
Hello from a very warm house in a seasonably chilly Cork. Remember, remember November... actually, I really don't. November's been a hideous collision of...
Like moles
October 22, 2023
I have no idea why this newsletter is called that. I wrote the title two days ago and have completely forgotten, which gives a good idea of where my head is...
Kheled-Zaram, Kibil-nala, Embassy Suites...
August 30, 2023
...the peaks of JW Marriott, the fabled tunnels of Crowne Plaza, the halls of Union Station, land of my people forever. These places I see in my dreams,...
A House With An Annoying Number Of Doors
July 17, 2023
Greetings from a very damp Ireland. No apologies for the lack of a newsletter last month - I was surviving a holiday. - I’m currently about 50,000 words into...
The Wall He Liked Not
May 16, 2023
Welcome back. And welcome some new readers. Thank you for subscribing! The Sword Defiant is out in the world, and lo! there are many reviews, mostly...
There's a nasty splinter on that ladder sir
April 15, 2023
As I seem to have fallen into a one-a-month-around-the-15th routine with these emails, the next one will come out after the release of THE SWORD DEFIANT. I...
A Quick Commercial Interjection
March 22, 2023
I won't make a habit of this, but as several people asked about hardcovers of my books, and it's somewhat time-sensitive - Inkstone Press are doing a...
Tales from the Lone-lands
March 15, 2023
Hello. There are enough of you wonderful subscribers that I've had to upgrade to a paid tier for the buttondown newsletter service. I do not begrudge this;...
Fibrous Words
February 16, 2023
Advanced reader copies of The Sword Defiant are out in the world! Early reviews are cropping up on Netgalley and Goodreads! I use exclamation marks to...
TBR-, Warp-, -lusions.
January 15, 2023
Hello, issue three. It seems like only a month ago I was writing issue two. I hope you had a good holiday ordeal. Here is an image of the Author Enduring The...
Meetings With Remarkable Dragons
December 16, 2022
Hello. awkward silence, shuffling of notes Unaccustomed as I am to public newslettering... There is a curious, shall we say, vampiric intimacy to a...
Lifeboat in a stormy sea
November 15, 2022
Hello and welcome to the first of these newsletters. There's something wonderfully retro about sending an email these days, but from text I came and to text...
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