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Works in Progress
Some of you may remember the page that was here before, in which I was writing a journal about my progress with my third book. Well, that journal was partly the reason that this website ended up being so horribly out of date, because when things went a bit Pete Tong with the book, I couldn't face writing about it. Frankly, I couldn't face thinking about it! Which meant I ended up avoiding this website.
So, in order that such a thing can never happen again, I have locked the writer's journal away in a golden ring, which will be taken on a perilous and near impossible journey to the crack of doom and...er...no, sorry, wrong story. What I meant to say is that I'm not going to attempt to write a journal here anymore.
Having completed Shadows on the Moon, I'm now working on the sequel to Daughter of the Flames! The working title is FrostFire, and it's set about six years after the events in DotF, in the mountains close to where Zira grew up. It concerns a group of mixed Sedorne and Rua fighters, who patrol the mountains trying to drive out the rogue Sedorne who were exiled by the new Reia and King, and who, instead of returning to Sedra, have returned to their old raiding ways.
Zira and Sorin will both make cameo appearances, but they're happy in their new life, so the main story (with all its ups and downs) will belong to new characters.
There's a lot of fighting in this one, and a fairly angsty love triangle, as well as a hero who is very unusual compared to the ones I've written before. My dad is ecstatic about this, and can't wait to read it.
Future Books
I plan to make the book featuring the Giant Killer Clockwork Praying Mantis Death Robots my fifth. My plans for this one will include a whole new heroine - the old one drove me mad and didn't match the hero at all - who will get some amazing costumes, and a bit more of the flavour of a Gothic romance.
After that, I've got plans for several other books. Some of them will come to nothing, and others may end up on your bookshelf.
I have an idea for a book which will be partially set in Modern Britain (gasp) and partially in a parallel or 'faery' world, which a family stumbles into. This one will revisit a favourite theme of mine: shape-shifting. What would it feel like to fall into another world and suddenly find that you're a squirrel? My characters might well get to find out.
And after that...who knows?
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