Tag Retribution Darkened

Brown paper packages tied up with string…

…This is one of our favourite things. Retribution Darkened arrived from our new printers this morning after a painful process of removing it from the system of our old ‘they who shall not be named’ printers, who, quite frankly, were awful!

Happy to support indie…

Great stories should be for everyone…

Dark Child is released!

Trumpets sound, party streamers everywhere… well, in the office, at least! As a small publisher, we have to sit and imagine the future where we’ll have a sparkler-topped cake for every release. In the meantime, we’ll just do a little happy jig at our desks!

Back to the future…

A few snippits of news from Scorpius towers this week, with our eyes firmly fixed on our upcoming titles over the next few months:

Did you play the Game of Thrones and win?…

Did you play the Game of Thrones and win?…
Warning: contains spoilers for series 8…(and a long post!)

Okay, so I’m a little late to the party on this, but after the final episode (which I watched several days late due to the hubby working and due to the school holidays have only just got round to writing this!), I think it’s taken me this long to process it and come to terms with the fact that a show I’ve watched for years is actually all over! In a small way, it was almost a form of grief.

How I work… and stay sane!

Having been a fiction editor for over ten years (and an author for even longer!), there are naturally times when the two collide and deadlines loom in both instances that have me pulling my hair out and begging for a day off, preferably on a beach with cocktail in hand, away from any mention of justified text or typos.

The end is nigh…

I’m really excited to announce that Dark Child, the final installment of The Dark Trilogy, will be released on 30th April 2019! I’ll be posting a few little sneak peeks over the next few weeks but to start you off,… Continue Reading →

Back to the grindstone…

Phew… the school holidays are done, checked off the list of things to do (or not to do in my case where all things book-related fell by the wayside amidst days out and calls of ‘I’m bored!’) and I am… Continue Reading →

A day in the life…

As I chip away at Dark Child, scribble notes on other book ideas and tinker with book covers, I thought I’d take you all behind the scenes in my ‘day in the life of an author’ (I think it’s called… Continue Reading →

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