Well now you’ve all seen it over at GrimDark Magazine (if you haven’t then you should go over and have a look, because there’s also an exclusive mini-interview with me on how I wrote the battle scenes for Nomad ), I can share the cover for The Summer Goddess (by Jason Deem) here and all over the place in all its glory.

And here’s how it starts :

White sails came with the sunset.
Asta saw them first, as she was coming down from the high peak where her mother lived. At first she thought they were birds, the great white gliding sea hawks, bigger than eagles, which floated above the turbulent eastern sea. But they were too low, moved with too much purpose, crossing back and forth ahead of the opposing wind.
It took her a long moment, staring into the darkening sea with her back to the…

So I woke up this morning, walked the Daggitt, then turned on my computer to discover this :

It turns out that during the nightThe Art of Forgetting : Rider had sneaked its way up the Amazon charts and was sitting happily at #1 on the Contemporary Fantasy chart pulling faces at the books just below it.

How awesome is that? Super awesome, that’s how awesome.

While I’m aware that people can become Amazon bestsellers with books written by their feet, right now I’m just really really happy and I’d like to thank everyone who’s downloaded it so far. It means an awful lot, to me personally and to Kristell Ink as a company (seriously can’t stop grinning right now!). Cake and champagne all round!

And to keep the party going a bit longer, Rider is also finally FREE on Kindle in the US as well – it took…

I’m delighted to announce that Serpent of the Shangrove , by the lovely and prolific C N Lesley, is released today by Kristell Ink – available on all platforms so go grab yourself a copy! C N is the author of Darkspire Reaches and Shadow Over Avalon and you can find her blog here.

Congrats to C N on her new realease, can’t wait to read it!

Copper is now a fully grown Drakken, but despite his magical abilities, he is shunned and shamed by his pure-blood kin.
Wandering despondent in the wilderness, Copper discovers a portal that reminds him of his lost crèche mate, left behind when the Drakkens fled their ancestral home. Knowing the portal will only remain open for three short days, Copper cannot resist the challenge to bring the lost maiden to safety, and prove himself worthy of his breed.

But the other world is not…