Covers and Blurbs

The blurb and rough version of the cover for Night of the Long Shadows has been posted on the Wizards of the Coast product catalog.

Nights of the Long Shadows: the three nights of the year when the darkest powers of the world gain strength and rise to prey upon the unwary. When one of Sharn’s most famed Inquisitives is hired to investigate a brutal murder at Morgrave University, his brilliance may be his damnation, as he uncovers a trail of blood leading from the seediest neighborhoods of the City of Towers to the highest reaches of power.

It's a great blurb. I tried my hand at writing one but it kept coming out too long. If I had any criticism (and it's a tiny moan, really) it's that I would have liked it to mention the other main character. The book is shared about 50-50 between the character mentioned above and another one from the "seediest neighborhoods of the City of Towers". But like I said, that's a tiny nitpick.


See that? That's a book cover. With my name on it. Consider me chuffed.

Moving House

So Caroline and I have finally made the big plunge into the property market and bought our first house. We've been renting for the past four years and just got sick of paying someone else's rent. We now have a three bedroom house (plus study) on a half acre plot of land. And it's got a swimming pool. Very South African.

I also have my own office where I can see the sky again. (Growing up I could see spectacular sunsets from the desk in my bedroom. Since moving away from home I've lived in four different houses and have never had any good views. But now I can see a wide arc of sky from my office and the sun sets directly in front of the deck. Yay. I don't know why but I'm much happier when I can see clouds drifting by outside.)

We moved in last Thursday, so everything is a bit of a mess. The only thing unpacked in my office is the desk and computer. Everything else will follow once I've painted over the strange hint-of-bile color the previous owner seemed partial to. I'll also post pics once I've tracked down the camera