The Djinn in my first-in-series book, Captain Wilder & the Dragon of Margundor, is central to the story in the novel. This creature lives in a bottle seemingly abandoned at some time in the past: “There at the centre of the cavern, pitched at a slight angle in the sand and crumbling rock, lay a…
I have a few exciting developments in the works for my Legends of Animarl series. One thing I’ve been working on is getting together a movie trailer to promote the first book in the series, Captain Wilder & The Dragon of Margundor. I worked with a real professional to get the trailer made, and here…
My books in the Legends of Animarl series are now stocked at the Brunswick Bound bookstore in Melbourne, Australia. If you can’t shop in person at Brunswick Bound, fear not! The three books in the series are also available through a number of outlets in both digital and paperback formats. For those of you who…
The last eighteen months have been challenging – to say the least – for everyone worldwide, and certainly from a personal perspective my publishing plans were thrown into confusion. To tell a long story short, after many years of deteriorating health I finally lucked on a good specialist who sent me for a test that…
The Portal is now available as a review copy for those interested. This is a limited time offer; at this stage I will only put it up for about a week. So if you feel like having a free sneak preview of The Portal, just go to the following link to download: Free Beta Version…
Well, here is the final version (bottom of this post) for the cover of The Portal, the first book in my Legends of Animarl series. The book itself is now in final draft state, and is being edited. I will announce a release date soon so it can be pre-ordered. I also will be releasing…
This is just a short post to announce the initial Cover Reveal – first draft versions only – of the first book in my fantasy series the Legends of Animarl. It’s full title is Legends of Animarl 1 – A Portal Opened in Dyalls Ford. Without further ado, here are those first versions, and I’m…
Being confined by The Virus, I’ve been reading a lot as well as the usual writing. One fascinating book I found ages ago and have just re-read is “Adventures by Sea of Edward Coxere”. It about the life of a seaman from Kent, England in the 1600’s. Coxere both wrote and illustrated the book, so this is not the work of a studied academic, but rather the simple and touching record of someone who endured enormous hardship and wondrous adventures in a long life at sea. I was amazed at the number of times he was made a prisoner of the various countries then at war with one another – Spain, Holland, England, Turkey and others – and yet managed to come through it all a stronger person with a fascinating spiritual insight.