I haven't died.....

Once again I have been disgracefully neglectful of this website. I plead in mitigation that I've been writing.  Today is the deadline for the next Rowland Sinclair novel which will be titled Gentlemen Formerly Dressed for release later this year.  I submitted it yesterday!  January and February have been huge months in terms of intense word production... so much so that it feels a little odd not to be writing anything at the moment.

In the meantime, whilst I've had my head in a Rowly manuscript, The Blood of Wolves has been approaching release.  It will be out tomorrow.  The Hero Trilogy is now complete.  I remember so clearly writing the very first sentence of the first book (Chasing Odysseus)...in some ways it's like yesterday, in others I feel like I've always known Hero and her brothers.

There's no official launch for The Blood of Wolves.... it will slip quietly onto the shelves tomorrow.  But on the 14th of March I will be speaking in conversation with Dr. Alastair Blanshard at the University of Sydney, as part of the Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Program.  (Everybody's welcome)  I could not be more honoured and excited by this invitation.  Alastair, who I have been known to refer to as my Classcist, has had a huge hand in these books.  He first introduced me to Homer's Odyssey many many years ago, he's checked my translations from the original Greek and Latin, and in fact edited The Blood of Wolves.  Now that the trilogy is done, a conversation with Alastair about the challenges and joys of Mythic Fiction seems very right somehow. 

Without making this post sound like an Oscars speech, I do need to declare how extraordinarily lucky I am to be with Pantera Press.  The Hero Trilogy is an unusual series with a challenging market and yet my books have received all the care and support of which any author could dream.

Now it's up to Hero and the Herdsmen of Ida.  Go forth little book and find friends.

PS: The "Read the First Chapter" button doesn't work on this website but if you're interested try here.