The main reason I decided to reread all my books set in the Kyralia world was to refresh my memory and lesson the chance of writing inconsistencies into The Traitor Queen. By that I mean details of the world, characters and magical system, as well as plot, that don’t agree across the books. Of course, [...]
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The Great Reread of 2011 – ebook formats
A few days ago I finished rereading the Black Magician Trilogy and the first two books of the Traitor Spy Trilogy. For newcomers to this blog, the story so far is this: I decided to reread all of the books in the Kyralia world a) to get all the details fresh in my mind before [...]
The Traitor Queen Blurb
Before I headed off on tour, my publisher asked for a blurb for The Traitor Queen. I didn’t have time to add it to my website then. This morning I remembered I’d written it, so I tweaked it a little and popped it onto the page for the book (under the Books menu above). The [...]
In the Mailbox
These books arrived yesterday: Well, yes, if you’re in Germany you’ll know The Rogue has been out for a while now. It takes a while for books to get to me, and on top of that my agent held onto any mail for me until I got back home. I’m in the middle of my [...]
Buying My Own Ebooks
Well, I’ve been home for over a week now and mostly over the jet lag. (I still wake up at ridiculous hours of the morning, but the ridiculousness of those hours is lessening.) On Monday I got rid of the layer of dust that had settled over everything in the room I write in, while [...]
A Peek into My Sketchbook
If you’ve read my bio, you know that I’m an artist as well as a writer, and used to work as a freelance illustrator. I’ve always found that my writing improves whenever I have art and other creative pursuits in my life. It isn’t easy finding time for art, but a couple of years ago [...]
My Tour in Germany
We caught the train from Paris to Germany, which was nice and relaxing. Well… until the end of the journey when we discovered Paul’s camera and some lenses had been stolen from his bag in the overhead storage shelf. The frustrating thing, other than losing the camera of course, is that I remember seeing a [...]
But Wait… There’s More!
The Tour didn’t take me from France straight away. We still had one more event to attend… A mini bus and train ride took us back to Paris, where we settled into a nice little hotel to rest and freshen up ready for one last event in France: a party at the office of Bragelonne, [...]
Imaginales, Part 2
The next item on my schedule was signing, so I settled in at my table at the Bulle de Livre. Soon I was signing lots of books, helped along by my lovely translator, Anneïg. Anneïg and I quickly formed a good method of working together, thanks to what I learned from working with Piotr in [...]
A Very Cool Way to Keep Warm
Last year, at Aussiecon4, a young Melbourne fan stood in line for many, many hours to get as many author signatures as possible on little squares of cloth. I’m not sure how much of the convention she actually saw, other than author signing queues. Then she went home and sewed and sewed and sewed. What [...]
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