Happy New Year!

2020 ended with something of a bang for me, with the release of my dystopian future shock novel Peaceful Quiet Lives. I’m going to continue posting articles about that novel as readers continue to respond to it, so that’s the first thing to expect from yours truly this year.

I’m also submitting my fantasy novel Ravenseed to mainstream publishers this month. The first draft of this Dark Ages set tale of love, lust, betrayal, and vengeance was written in early 2018. I have since polished it to the point where I am happy to submit it for scrutiny. Who knows? Perhaps by the end of the year it will have been released. I hope so, as I’m very proud of this novel.

My gothic mystery horror/thriller novels Spectre of Springwell Forest, The Irresistible Summons, and Phantom Audition are also going to be re-released very soon, with brand new covers. Keep an eye out for those, as the new covers are fabulous.

In addition, I’m planning on writing a sequel to my as yet unreleased fantasy/horror novel for children, The Faerie Gate (which I wrote back in 2014). I originally planned this sequel as an entirely separate story, but as I began to plan the narrative, I realised it fitted perfectly into the same universe as The Faerie Gate. The new novel will be a standalone tale, but much larger, and more epic. It might even end up being more than one volume. In fact, in size and scope, it could end up being to The Faerie Gate what The Lord of the Rings is to The Hobbit. In view of such potential lengthiness, I’m not sure I’ll finish writing the first draft this year, but I certainly plan to get as far as possible into the story.

All of which means, my long-planned science fiction anthology will probably remain on hold for the foreseeable future. I’ve written one novella and one short story from the various outlines I had planned, but due to other writing commitments and the inability to bend time and space, I’ve still failed to make any progress since 2019. I’ll get there one of these days.

I’ll continue to update the blog on a regular basis, with various articles and the usual film reviews. I’m also hoping to record a new series of The Tangent Tree, so watch this space for news of that as well.

As to whether I’ll release anything else, I’m uncertain at this point, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen. After all, last year I said I was going to take it easier, and I ended up releasing Peaceful Quiet Lives. Perhaps this year will prove just as busy.