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I updated the What I’m Working On page. I did not realise it was so out of date! I just decided to drop the second book I’ve started recently and then decided not to finish. This is annoying, but… The first one was a sci-fi, but I started to realise it was too like Etiquette of Sin. So, I tried again, but I’m not liking where the new one is going. The concept is there, so I’m putting this one…

It’s spring and I’m in Manchester (the one in the UK). Tradition dictates that it should be cold and rainy. Instead, I have a fan blasting at me and sleeping last night sucked. On the bright side, I got up at 3 a.m. and did some work because I wasn’t sleeping. I managed to clawed back a bit of sleep later when things had cooled a little. I thought it was enough, but it’s even warmer today than…

Apparently, this is a thing. So, I wondered how easy it would be to recreate with one of my characters. It’s hardly perfect. Getting the pose to work perfectly would have driven me insane. Surprisingly, the lighting was easy. Enjoy.

Art for Sin and co, including a map.

Available soon (as in when the publishers get their acts together). Sin lives alone in a tower on the edge of a haunted forest. She likes her life. That is until a princess rides up and asks her to come to the capital of Almar to save her brother from a demonic curse, and Sin’s life is suddenly turned upside down. Now Sin has to go to school to learn etiquette, which could be a problem because…

New book, The Etiquette of Sin, will be out this week. For those of you who like to read these at the weekend, I’ll make sure it’s available some time on Friday (UK time), but it might come out a little earlier. Basically, it’s been almost a year since I did one of these, so it may take me a while to remember the process. I decided to revert to my youth with this one (and the next one,…

I realise most of you will be reading this in the morning of January 1st, or may be reading it while waiting for midnight, but I’m waiting for the explosions to die down before I go to bed, so here we are. I hope 2026 turns out to be good for you, and I hope we make it to 2027 without blowing up the planet. A 2026 image, just for the hell of it.

Number 15, North Pole, three doors down from Santa’s workshop. Wrong address. Gosh, being drunk is fun! I could gush about single malt whiskey, but my doctor might complain. I should get on with it… It’s been a while since I wrote anything here. For once, that is because I’ve been working. I’m about 65,000 words into something which looks like it’s going to be finished at some point. Currently,…

I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, but… On the 29th of May (I think; time is blurring), my father died. I had been spending more or less all my time looking after him for the past few months. He turned 91 on the 13th of May, and I was pretty convinced he was going to keep going for years. He had a major stroke on Sunday night, slipped into unconsciousness, and finally died on the…

As I said, I didn’t do a lot of art for Gods and Monsters owing to family circumstances. So, I’m not doing a proper art dump, but here are a couple of images I did do. This was my idea for what everyone would wear on Grimalkin. That place is hot, so everyone except Carina is in briefer clothing. Carina thinks it’s just warm since it’s autumn. And this is another image of Michiko, probably from…

Gods and Monsters, the 8th Death’s Handmaiden novel, is now out. Hope you enjoy it since it’s been the first for a while. Smashwords and other retailers Amazon: US UK AU DE CA

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This is the cover for the upcoming Death’s Handmaiden novel, Gods and Monsters. It’s ready to publish! Now for the bad news. Smashwords merged with Draft2Digital, and this is my first time publishing through them. The book has been submitted, but I have no idea how long it’s going to take for their publishing process to complete (Smashwords used to be basically immediate). Meanwhile, Amazon’s…

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Have a guess who this is. Death’s Handmaiden 8, Gods and Monsters, will be out by the end of this month, probably on the weekend before the end of the month. (As an aside: January 2025! Where did 2024 go?) The young lady above will be appearing in it, if briefly. Look forward to bigger explosions and the revelation of a new threat likely to result in really amazingly big explosions! Plus, in…

So, what am I up to? Well, I’m still writing the next Death’s Handmaiden book. It’s still going to be a while before it’s out, unfortunately. I'[d like to get it out for Christmas, but I think it’s going to be January/February at this point. I have been making rather better progress recently because it looked like my father was doing better and could handle being on his own for a while. And now…

I decided to get myself withesandrayguns.com, so you can now get to this blog via https://www.witchesandrayguns.com. Hopefully, that doesn’t mess with the old address, but that’s part of the reason why I’m making this post. Please let me know if you have any problems.

There’s not much art to dump for The Business of War, but here are the images I did for the new uniform.

Now available, the seventh Death’s Handmaiden book: The Business of War. Smashwords. Amazon (details when available)