Over the next seven weeks, I’m serialising my fantasy novella Bloodmire on Substack. It had previously been serialised on Medium, but this version has a revised ending exclusive to Substack. This is also the ending I prefer, on balance. I don’t generally revise the finales of my stories, but in this specific case, felt I had missed a trick concerning the fate of a particular supporting character. This has now been tweaked.

Bloodmire concerns a Dark Ages knight undertaking a quest to rescue the young woman to whom he is betrothed. She has been captured by a mysterious Beast and taken into a dangerous uncharted forest. On his quest, the knight encounters bandits, witches, and strange supernatural beings, journeying ever deeper into the forest, and ever deeper into himself. But this is no straightforward tale of a damsel in distress. Nor is the knight perhaps as noble as you might initially believe.

Curious? Why not check it out on Substack, over the next seven weeks (click here for part one). You’ll need to subscribe to me there, but for a mere $5 per month, you get access to multiple short stories and novellas, plus almost every article I publish on Medium is republished there too. On top of that, you get full access to my film review archive. In short, it is great value for money!

Bloodmire is also intended as a companion piece to my recently released novel Ravenseed and features one of the supporting characters. However, I stress Bloodmire requires no prior knowledge of Ravenseed. It stands entirely alone.

Incidentally, you can pick up Ravenseed from Amazon on Kindle or paperback here (in the UK) and here (in the US). Downloads or paperbacks are also available from Draft2Digital, Smashwords, and associated outlets here.