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Just when you thought it was safe to go home…
All the Evils, the sequel to the Byzantine historical adventure Pandora’s Jar, is out now (and both books are discounted until the end of January 23). What’s it about? How do I buy it? Read on… It seems Anastasia, ex-courtesan of Constantinople, is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. After cheating death…
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Are readers really necessary?
Now don’t get offended – I can’t think of an author who doesn’t LOVE to have readers. Naturally! But… When I get together online with other writers, it becomes apparent to me that there are two kinds of author. One kind tends to ask, on online forums, ‘What kind of book will readers BUY?’. The…
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From beyond the grave…
Do you believe in life after death? When her musician husband Orpheus disappears from a party boat in Sydney Harbour and is later found drowned, Eurydice goes through all the usual stages of grief. Disbelief, blame, anger, withdrawal. And then finally, she decides to find him. But how do you go about finding someone who…
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A novelist, a do-gooder, a bus driver and a hitman’s sister walk into a bar…
Well, kind of, and that’s The Point of Us. A novel about what happens when the rug’s pulled out from under your feet. When you think you know who you are and where you’re going, and then, suddenly, you don’t. Terentia’s agent’s just rejected her latest book; he says she’s missed the zeitgeist. Paul, a…
Embrace your inner strange…
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