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The first cover I designed for Daevil’s Bells was not for Daevil’s Bells. It was for a book called Secrets of Dom Arjona, which is what I thought I was writing in 2017. The cover I built matched the book I thought I had: an erotic gothic thriller about a…
Continue readingDaevil’s Tears is a book about a walled garden. I did not know this when I started writing it. I knew it had a great house in it, and a master, and a girl who came to scrub his pots. I knew it had a god whose name the servants…
Continue readingThe last post here is from 2021. I know. I looked. The honest version is this: the pandemic did a number on all of us, and I was no exception. When the dust started to settle I found I didn’t want back into the world I’d stepped out of. The…
Continue readingPerhaps another query might have done it, or the one after, or the one after that. Who knows? However, after banging our heads on the barred gates of traditional publishing, Narcisse and I had to make a decision. What do we really want to happen with our book? Sure, we would love…
Continue readingBook news, finally! Wow, it has been a while since we’ve updated! Sorry about that. Marzio and I have been busy applying polish to The Tendrils of Fate and working on a bunch of fascinating projects. We’ve decided to split The Tendrils of Fate into a Duology which will consist…
Continue readingThe Merman’s Children by Poul Anderson takes the reader into the realms of magic and fey. It is a wonderful book well worth the read.
Continue readingWhisperers Mir’kadi, Eighteenth of Sund’im Rime thickened along the Swoughünd’s hull until she began to list sideways. The cries of her captain pierced the morning fog, sending sailors scampering into the frozen harbor. They descended along the docks with pickaxes and clubs, ready to break the ship free of the…
Continue readingMost readers are well acquainted with the big fantasy titles, here are four lesser known fantasy worlds worth exploring. It is common to encounter pastiches and copies of an established fantasy milieu- for example the Iron Tower trilogy by Dennis L. McKiernan and the Shannara books by Terry Brooks both…
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