THE STORMLORD series (aka THE WATERGIVERS) is on the Sara Douglass Award shortlist. This is the inaugural award, in honour of one of Australia’s great fantasy writers, who made it huge on the international stage, and died far too young. … Continue reading
USA Orbit edition Sometime in the next week, you should be able to get your hands on a copy of Stormlord’s Exile, the final volume in the trilogy. That’s half a million words all together by the time you arrive … Continue reading
.Just received an offer for translation rights for a specific language of The Stormlord trilogy. I shan’t say any more than that for the time being as I haven’t signed on the dotted line yet, and things could go wrong … Continue reading
STORMLORD RISING is of course the second book in the Watergivers trilogy, and HarperVoyager have put up Chapter 1 here, and will put up Chapter 2 Friday the 22nd, just to get you all worked up enough to put your … Continue reading
.Like many writers, I go through long periods of self-doubt concerning my ability. I write for weeks – no, months, without anyone seeing a word that I have committed to paper. I re-read and re-work and re-read and re-work, until … Continue reading
I sent off the MS of Book 2 Stormlord Rising for copy edit – with a glossary added because many of you said you liked them*. Now I am clearing the deck desk, ready for the plunge into book 3. … Continue reading
…goes off to the printers today in Australia.Should be in the shops in about 6 weeks time. And I am off to Virginia tomorrow. … Continue reading
Well, it started maybe not so well – with a traffic jam followed by a long overdue mammogram (squash) and ultrasound (squish). Perked up a lot at lunch with several friends who work for the Malaysian Nature Society, then was … Continue reading
The shape*-eyed among you will have noticed a couple of things about the cover I put up a couple of days ago. Firstly, it’s not the title we had decided on some time back. In fact a number of titles … Continue reading
