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The Last Shield Soundtrack

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As part of the British Fantasy Society's fundraising auction for Save The Children, the mighty Allen Stroud put up an item that I ended up winning the bid for - a musical composition!   After some discussion, he went off and composed a special theme for my novel, The Last Shield.   Wrap your ears around this!

The Last Shield is Released!

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It is here! The Last Shield is finally available to buy at all your usual fine book emporiums! I'm am beyond excited for you all to meet Briar, and have a blast with my book. Amazon US Amazon UK Barnes and Noble Waterstones Angry Robot Books

The Last Shield Audiobook

It has finally arrived! The audiobook version of The Last Shield is now up on Audible for preorder: Audible.com Audible.co.uk

The Last Shield author copies have arrived!

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AHHHHHHHHHH My author copies of The Last Shield have arrived here in Glasgow from Angry Robot Books. What lovely, shiny title text and gilded name! And also author copies of my jaw-dropping special edition from The Broken Binding!

Gallus: a Glasgow Science Fiction Writer's Circle anthology

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COVER REVEAL: New GSFWC anthology launching at Worldcon in Glasgow this August, feating one of mine: Gods of the Deepwood Periodically the GWSFC produces a publication to showcase our range and wonder. In the last few years we’ve had Thirty Years of Rain for our thirtieth anniversary and Flotation Device to raise money during the pandemic and many others previously including, for the first Glasgow Worldcon in 1995, Shipbuilding. Well, this year there is another Glasgow Worldcon and we have decided to produce a new anthology for that. It is called Gallus . Gallus is a Scots word meaning bold, daring or high-spirited, and often used to describe the people of Glasgow. We feel this equally describes the members of the GSFWC and their writing and we hope you will read our anthology and agree with us. Gallus contains 25 stories by current members, a snapshot of what the Circle and Glasgow speculative writing is producing in the space year 2024. There are writers who’ve been members f

Broken Binding special edition

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I guess the news is finally out - The Broken Binding are doing a special edition of my forthcoming THE LAST SHIELD What a gorgeous tome she is!

The Last Shield news

Hi all, I have some good news about publication progress on The Last Shield. Audiobook The audiobook is progressing nicely - the way it usually works is that an author will get a handful of narrators with availability submitting a test-reading, and after a listen, I get to submit my preferences. I've indicated a strong preference on this one, with an amazing narrator who will make The Last Shield into an incredible audiobook. Proof The proof copy of The Last Shield has been read through and submitted to Angry Robot Books and everything is now in place and proceeding for publication on August 13th. Something...Special Something special is also coming, but I can't reveal it yet...but OOOOOHHHH.

Darkest City: Head Games screenplay award

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Well that was a nice email to wake up to: Congratulations! Your screenplay, Darkest City: Head Games, placed as a Quarter Finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2023 Competition! https://lascreenplayawards.com/result/ This was a lower-budget fantasy screenplay I adapted from the world of The Traitor God, based on Head Games, the short story prequel to that novel.

Bargain Alert: Barnes and Noble have a whopping 25% off pre-orders of THE LAST SHIELD

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Bargain Alert: Barnes and Noble have a whopping 25% off pre-orders of THE LAST SHIELD right now! (Premium members get an additional 10% off.)

The Last Shield - coming August 13th.

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The cover for my next book, THE LAST SHIELD has just been released! Coming August 13th. The ancient forest realm of Sunweald is bordered on two sides by far mightier nations – a precarious situation. At its centre, the Sunweald Palace is home to the Lord Regent and the heir to the throne, together with numerous precious and powerful artefacts. The Palace is protected by the realm’s elite Shields, dedicated to guarding the royal line against all foes. A group of vicious brigands called the Wildwood Reivers have been stealing arcane artefacts and smuggling them across the borders, out of Sunweald. And the objects they most desire are stored in the mystical Wyrm Vault, hidden away deep in the bones of the earth, within the walls of the Palace itself. As political and religious tensions mount, Sunweald’s druids prepare to enact rituals for the Summer Solstice – but the Wildwood Reivers and their treacherous allies have other plans. It falls to Briar, the commander of the Shields, to d

Grimdark Magazine #37

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Grimdark Magazine #37 is out this week, featuring a story of mine from the world of The Maleficent Seven! Titled 'Birth of a Demonologist', it serves as a little bit of an origin story for Black Herran's journey into wielding the terrifying powers of of Hellrath.