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Hi everyone! All the activities at the fair have started! I’d like to give a warm welcome to the over 500 guests that are attending! All the participating authors are ridiculously excited 🙂 Here’s what to expect for the next two weeks. Every day the moderator will post up to books from a specific genre for you to check […]

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I’ve written before about what it took me to get published. It was a collection of tips and lessons-learnt, which Lifehacker grandiosely called “The complete guide”. However, every so often I come across an article from one of the literary greats about the topic. A couple of really good ones I came across recently, from […]

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This story is a product of prodding from Julia, my wife and inspiration. Her insistence that “sex sells” has led me to do a market research into the currently highest-trending mass-market erotica (dreadful stuff, which left me feeling dirty). I give you now the result, my own take on this popular trope with a uniquely […]

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I’m participating on a blog tour – meaning that without leaving Sunny Sydney, I get to appear in blogs all over the world 🙂 I’ve written several interviews (different questions), with excerpts from Murder In Absentia, as well as a few articles on the art of writing genre mash-ups fantasy worlds. Enjoy this first instalment, […]

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Catching the public’s eye and directing it to your book is hard. The favourite past-time for authors is interviewing each other. Makes us all feel a little bit like celebrities I guess, in the hope that the public will buy into it. It’s also great with procrastinating actually writing your next novel 😉 We’re all […]

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Hi guys, I’m running a giveaway on Goodreads for Murder in-absentia! Enter for a chance to win a free signed copy of the most exciting fantasy murder mystery (with an historical bent and a splash of horror) released this year!       Go here to enter: www.goodreads.com/book/show/26867372-murder-in-absentia Winners will be announced on Jan 1st – […]

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The story takes place about twelve years before the events of Murder in-absentia and during 79 CE in Rome (well after the events of Nemesis by Lindsey Davis). This story is fan-fiction. Marcus Didius Falco is © Lindsey Davis, and Gordianus the Finder is © Steven Saylor. Both are used without permission but with much love and admiration. Make sure to […]

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The story takes place about twelve years before the events of Murder In Absentia and during 63 BCE in Rome (just after the events of Catilina’s Riddle by Steven Saylor). This story is fan-fiction. Gordianus the Finder is © Steven Saylor, and is used without permission but with much love and admiration. Egretia, 523 AUC Never practice […]

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The events in this story take place about three years before those of Murder In Absentia. Felix is hired to deal with some strange sanitation issues. I pushed the burnt body with the toe of my boot. The charred remains shifted, slid, turned over. The face was still barely recognisable, as the burns were from […]