Ch 1, The Perilous Tower
FIRST CHAPTER OF THE PERILOUS TOWER BOOK 3 OF THE GATES OF GOOD & EVIL 1 THE MOST DISTURBING THING The sky galleon, an absurd craft with an equally silly name, Three Reckless Old Ladies, streaked north along the coast of the Sea of Thurkad. There had been no further sign of the enemy and Llian allowed himself…
Apple Books Start a Series for 99c Promotion
Live in Australia or New Zealand and looking for a book bargain? For a limited time you can get Geomancer for 99c, and the rest of my The Well of Echoes series at a reduced price, in Apple Books' biggest promotion of the year, Start a Series for 99c. The link only works for A/NZ, but you can also get…
Want more of Xervish Flydd?
One Throw of the Die A novelette from my Three Worlds Anthology, A Wizard's War and Other Stories, available in ebook now, and in print late this year, hopefully. Spoiler alert! If you haven’t read my epic fantasy quartet The Well of Echoes, and intend to, you should do so before reading One Throw of the Die, since it begins…
How I Write – and How it's Changed
Another frequently asked question, so I've reposted it from Civilian Reader of a couple of years ago, with revisions. I’m not sure when I had the idea of writing a fantasy novel, though I first acted on it in 1977 after reading Terry Brooks’ The Sword of Shannara. (I met Terry for the first time at Supanova Melbourne in 2018, and…
What are the glyphs, anyway?
Even after twenty years, people still ask about the 33 'runes' around the covers of the original four books of The View from the Mirror, which are the same as the symbols around the border of the mysterious, dangerous and deceitful ancient artefact, the Mirror of Aachan. But they're not runes, they're glyphs, and part the syllabary of an ancient…