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How I write – and how it's changed
This is how my storytelling career began, 32 books ago – Post on Civilian Reader: And how I write now –
View from the Mirror ebook special
To celebrate the forthcoming release of The Summon Stone, for the next few weeks you can get the 4 ebooks of The View from the Mirror for 99c each in Australia and NZ. Why nowhere else? Unfortunately I don't control the price anywhere else. Buy on iBooks.
The View from the Mirror Giveaway
My lovely publishers for the past 16 years, Orbit Books, are giving away five full sets of the print edition of The View from the Mirror quartet. The competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over in the UK, US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. To enter, go to my Facebook page, comment under the competition (April 2) with why…
Notes on A Wizard's War
Stories in my first Three Worlds anthology A Wizard's War The Price of Freedom. This 30-page story is from the Distant Past, more than 3,900 years before the events told in The View from the Mirror. It portrays one of the most important moments in the Histories of the Three Worlds – the first meeting of Rulke, the greatest of all…
CHAPTER ONE OF THE SUMMON-STONE
Here is Chapter One of The Summon-Stone, Book 1 of the THE GATES OF GOOD AND EVIL, the sequel to The View from the Mirror quartet, first published back in 1998-1999. 1: THE EVIL MAN SAW ME ‘Don’t!’ a little girl was sobbing. ‘Look out! Run, run!’ Sulien! Karan threw herself out of her bed, a high box of black-stained…