In trying to figure out this post, my mind kept drifting to the early Neil Gaiman graphic novel Signal to Noise .  Excepting a couple of vol...

 If you're a regular reader of the blog and have been getting frustrated with the fact that for weeks now I've been posting endless ...

For those wondering where the fourth  Black River  book is, I can only apologise for the unexpectedly lengthy radio silence.  Until quite re...

It's been rather quiet here on the blog for the last few weeks, but I do have a good excuse.  I've been putting the last touches to ...

It's been a while since I've discussed the fourth Black River book - known as Graduate or Die , until someone talks me out of it! ...

So last time we'd settled on a direction, and our fantastic artist Kim Van Deun was about to embark on the real work of making what w...

I've said half-jokingly that working with artists is my favourite part of being an author, and though obviously I enjoy all that writin...

Yup, the third in the Black River Chronicles series, Eye of the Observer , is finally out to buy!  And it's hard to know what I can add...

If for whatever reason you're not already on board with my ongoing fantasy series The Black River Chronicles then a) why the heck no...

First the good news: the third novel in the Black River Chronicles series, Eye of the Observer , is about to head off for copy-editing...

Here's a post I've been holding off on for a while now, I guess because bad news only becomes actual bad news at the point when you...

September seems like a long way off, but it really isn't, is it?  In fact, in about four months' time my sixth novel - and my cri...

The topic of why stories get rejected is one I've been thinking about for an awfully long time, first as I tried to figure out what I w...

Implausible as it might seem, I can be a bit sneaky on occasions!  Like when it comes to news; I've been sitting on this particular p...

Is it too early to start discussing a book that I only began writing five weeks ago today?  Well, maybe, but I'm over halfway through, ...

I was once asked in an interview, "If you could live in the world of a fantasy novel, which one would it be?" and again, "If...

It occurred to me when I started planning this year-just-gone's concluding post that there's a bias inherent in the system: I alway...

It's out!  The second of the Black River Chronicles , The Ursvaal Exchange , is available to buy in print and e-book as of the end of...

There's going to be a lot happening on the Ursvaal Exchange front in the coming weeks - we're awfully close to our mid-November re...