You can already pre-order your copy of The Blue Book of Sevadon, which is the second full-length volume in the Spell Books of Meklir series. The novel picks up events a few months after the end of the quest for The Red Book of Errabrec. All the companions who took part in the quest have been hurt in some ways and changed in others. This second volume explores their reactions to the life-altering events of their first quest at the same time as throwing them right back into ano

At the time of writing, I am just doing some final line edits on the second main volume of the Spell Books of Meklir series, The Blue Book of Sevadon. It's taken a long time to get to this because there are so many plot and character balls (ahem - didn't think that metaphor through before I wrote it and it's clearly too late to change it now) up in the air at once. The main issue is that this series exists alongside a number of other properties that I'm working on at the same

What's going on with this world of Meklir? The first thing you need to know is that Meklir is a full-on fantasy world with lots of features and denizens that don't exist or make sense in the context of our own world or our own understanding of the universe. Some fantasy worlds are based on the model of the planet, complete with suns, moons, stars and, at times, the possibility of other such planets. Some fantasy worlds are actually our own Earth re-imagined: either in a far-f

Don't judge me for not posting a review in over a year. I've been busy editing my own books (and reading dozens of others). It's easy to forget to update these things. I had earmarked a number of novels I thought might appeal to you as I was going along, but never got to writing about them. Maybe I'll go back and cover some of them soon. I recently finished Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword and it struck me as one that I would like to tell you about. A lot of you will be famili

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