Today marks one year since RAVEN was re-released by Boldwood Books, and I thought I would celebrate by recapping on a crazy 2025, and a quick look ahead at what is to come in 2026. So I think it was summer 2024 when I first spoke to Boldwood about coming onboard. At the time I was pretty committed to self-publishing, with four books self-pubbed and I was busy working on the fifth. I had been with a publisher before and had found the experience underwhelming (to say the least) and was in no...

Hi Everyone!   Wolf and the Crown , the second in my Shadow of Rome series is published today. This book tells the beginnings of the man who would become ‘Magnus’ Maximus and make himself Emperor of the Western Empire at the end of the fourth century AD. We pick up the story, continuing with Tribune Sixtus Victorinus and Prefect Gaius Felicius as our POV’s, some sixteen years after Eagle and the Flame  left off. Maximus has presided over a long period of peace in Britannia, serving as the Dux...

Thinking of grabbing a copy of Wolf and the Crown? Here's the prologue, give it a read and hopefully it will sway you in the right direction! Get your copy by clicking the image above! PROLOGUE Africa, AD 373 The dust swirled around him, assaulting his eyes so he had to squint beneath his headscarf. His mount was skittish, tossing its head from side to side, as desperate as he to be out of the basking heat. He stroked the beast, whispering in its ear until it calmed. Before him, sand coloured...