Sunday 2nd August, 2015

Well, I blinked and the next thing I knew, it was August. Time moves quickly, whether you’re enjoying yourself or not…

Although I’m not sure whether that’s a valid reason to start planning two years in advance. A former school friend of mine, Katie John (who also writes), has been setting up a new YA convention for the UK and I’ve agreed to be involved, so: mark Chapter.Con [External Link] in your diaries for August 24th – 27th, 2017!

While I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be doing, yet, I’ve been invited due to the Elkie Bernstein part of my Fur-Skins world. I’ve previously stated why I don’t consider 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf and A Pack Of Lies to be Young Adult in genre. However, as it does deal with coming of age and learning how to cope with life, there’s a significant overlap and so Katie considers me a Person Of Interest for her convention. Of course, by the time the convention actually arrives, Elkie Bernstein’s story (or my act of trilogy) should be complete with the last book hopefully seeing print sometime next year. Fingers crossed that the currently entitled “Fool If You Think It’s Over” behaves itself…

So, please don’t forget that 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf and A Pack of Lies exist in the wild. If you’ve read them, feedback and/or reviews would be gratefully received, thank you. You can find some background information to the world on this site (titles, location, characters), along with the opening prologue and first chapter of 25 Ways if you want to get a feel for what they’re all about.

Finally, next week’s post may be delayed or cancelled all together as I shall be at Nine Worlds in London. If you’re there, I’m part of a small team presenting HEMA for Writers: Swashbucklers and Bravoes on the Creative Writing Track – we’re up on Sunday afternoon but we will be wandering about all week and you may even see us sparring on occasion.