Celebrating 5 Years of Ordshaw!
Five years ago today, Under Ordshaw was released and the world was exposed to a unique British city with the occasional magical/horrific twist. The series has now seen two story arcs completed with The Sunken City Trilogy and The Ikiri Duology; two new arcs started...
Introducing my upcoming epic fantasy: meet The Blood Scouts!
You may have seen me mention here, there or elsewhere that I’ve been working on a new epic fantasy series. I started the first novel a good few years ago but between submission windows and focusing on existing projects, it’s taken a while to creep towards completion....
My Best 90 or so Reads of 2022
This year I read a hearty 148 books, which is a drop down from 2021, but it was my intention to read a bit less to avoid drowning in it all. While I have a mountainous pile of books to get through, often I find I can’t properly remember them without prompts, only a...
How A Most Apocalyptic Christmas Came to Be
With Christmas around the corner, and The Worst Survive finally worming its way out in serial form, I thought it a good time to tell the story of the background for A Most Apocalyptic Christmas. My wild and unusual dystopian action novella has, for some years, been...
The Ordshaw Reading Order
With Dyer Street Punk Witches, the Ordshaw Series is about to reach 7 full books long, covering 4 separate story arcs, so it felt like time to produce a summary post to introduce what's going on overall. Hopefully this will help new or returning readers to navigate...
Ordshaw is Going Wide
In the run-up to the release of Dyer Street Punk Witches, I've been busy behind the scenes setting up the entire Ordshaw series for wider release. That means the books will be available digitally pretty much everywhere – on all the other eBook stores besides Amazon....
Dyer Street Punk Trading Cards
With Dyer Street Punk Witches on the cusp of release, it's time to publicly reveal this promotion scheme I've been feverishly putting together: the book will ship with a set of collectible character trading cards. I had so much detail going into writing the book, with...
My Best Books (/Authors) of 2021
I’ve read an utterly absurd 180+ books this year, in huge part thanks to audiobooks. which make every idle moment an opportunity to drink book juice through your earholes. This is something of a double-edged sword, because reading tons also means it’s hard to narrow...
The Merry (Part 3): An Ordshaw Vignette
It is the most wonderful time of the year, because I have for you the final part in the Ordshaw Vignette saga that is The Merry. Those of you who've been with me for a while have no doubt been eagerly awaiting more (or occasionally looking at the ceiling and wondering...