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Bookish heroine Ashleigh and puzzle-solving nerd Darryl must team up to help an Empress with a dragon problem in 2017's A Plague of Dragons. It could be yours for free! (Kindle edition only on https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4FBVY2N) Available only from 8 August to 12 August. Ashleigh Melusine can’t perform a spell without setting something on fire. She’s tired, she smells like onions, the only person who believed in her has been murdered, and she’s on the run. Just when she thinks her day can’t get any worse, someone sets the Ice River on fire and the red dragons attack the city. A little...

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How to write a Part Two

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I cheated. I wrote a whole book, split it into three, and voila! A trilogy was born. When I started The Colour of Her Magic in 2006 I did not intend for it to be a trilogy. Most of my writing takes the form of standalone novels. By the time I got to the third draft my book was over 180,000 words and I panicked. Nobody was going to publish this. Hadn't I read all those articles about how first novels should be less than 120k words? But what I could do was split it. There are plenty of articles...

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New Release Coming Soon

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I'm so excited to announce a new release coming in April: the first of my "Song of the Towers" series of novels! A Princess imprisoned for ten years. A Chicken Farmer who dares defy the High Sorcerer. A Bard who’s just along for the ride. Princess Daphne of Undersunne has been imprisoned by the High Sorcerer for ten years. She isn’t dead… yet, but she’s running out of time. Erin, the daughter of a chicken farmer, wants to rescue the Princess. She's got a sword, a bow, acres of willpower and a scrap of magic. But before she faces the...

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