“The Isles of Glory” US edition

Posted on by December 9, 2023
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Penguin ACE have just made public the cover to the US edition of book 3 of The Isles of Glory. It’s a glorious cover, and even though part of me wonders just why the character is wearing so little, I must say it does catch the eye. (I am assuming the artist is Scott Grimando, who did the first two covers.) Another five months to publication though…

Meantime, over at http://www.emcit.com, Cheryl Morgan has a review of the second book, Gilfeather, and was kind enough to say that “At this point Larke does something that Stephen Donaldson would have been proud of. When it comes to emotional torture of one’s heroes, Larke is getting very good. I’m starting to like this series a lot.”

In addition, I just saw the cover to the new book, Heart of the Mirage (Book 1 of The Mirage Makers trilogy) from HarperCollins Australia. Lovely. All in all, it has been an exciting few days…

Impossibly Exotic

Posted on by March 13, 2021
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My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard…

I am a transplanted Australian, now living in South-East Asia. I have, as an adult, lived in four different countries on four different continents. I grew up on an Australian farm, I’ve worked in Malaysian rainforests, looked out on the ruins of Carthage from the windows of my study in Tunis and lived seven years in a house that backed onto Beethovengang in Vienna.

Now I live in Malaysia, in the state of Selangor, where I write fantasy fiction and work on projects that take me anywhere from mangroves to tropical islands, from a luxury resort to a tent in a peat swamp.

Welcome to my blog!