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Lydia held her breath and resisted the urge to coil more tightly around Andrew as the dark sanctuary shuddered again. She was trying to protect him, not accidentally crush him.

“I think we’ve stopped dropping, at least,” Naria said.

We have, He who was Indarian said. And they’ve noticed. I wonder what they’ll try next. Read the rest of this entry »

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A/N: Merry Christmas, Readers! Hope you all had a good one!

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Karen buried an axe into the chest of one of the Kithreiri trying to stop her and Alban from reaching her father and then kicked him off the blade before whirling as she sensed someone behind her, nearly hitting her father in the process.

Careful, Kaz, he sounded surprisingly calm as he ducked under the blow. I’d rather not go down to to friendly fire. That would be embarrassing. Read the rest of this entry »

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A/N: Hey, Peeps! Please read this post. I’m afraid it’s a begging post but please take a look.

I could really use your help.

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“What’s that human saying?” Umi said when they arrived back on the station. “Cat among the pigeons? Yes, this news about our enemies has really put the cat among the pigeons with the council. They are still arguing about the best response.”

“But we do have an initial response,” Midori said. “They want to initiate contact before they reach us but given the time we have due to them being limited to sublight speeds they want to try and come up with a treatment for their issues first as an olive branch.”

“That might work,” Prima said. “Or it might just make them more dangerous. Immortal and as resilient as you are – that would be scary.” Read the rest of this entry »

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A/N: Hey, Peeps! Please read this post. I’m afraid it’s a begging post but please take a look.

I could really use your help.

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“Are you okay, mum?” Daniel asked once he and Alsia had fought their way through her attackers.

“Somehow.” Sonia was standing back to back with Nephele and both of them were covered in multicoloured Kithreiri blood. “But that was hairy – they nearly got through my defences. Is it just me or am I being singled out for attention here?”

“It’s not just you, Sonia-ida,” Alsia said. “I suspect Xantaria is having her people go after you as a favour to Mitakrian, but don’t worry – we’ve got you’re back.” Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Readers,

As the title says this is a begging post. Sorry about that but it’s got to be done.

As you may know I was made redundant in June 2014 and ever since I’ve been bouncing from temporary job to temporary for the eighteen month since. This is exhausting and stressful in a way that a stable job never was and it’s really cutting into my writing time. This is why Dragon Wars installments are so much shorter now and why Damkina and Haventon are fortnightly not weekly.

To make matters worse my most recent temporary job just ended right before Christmas and my savings are virtually gone. I am looking for work, I have great experience, an excellent CV and have some interviews lined up but there’s no guarantees and this is bloody scary.

There has never been a better time for my writing to start to paying for itself.

So if you want to pledge a few pennies to my Patreon I’ve updated the goals as follows (Note these are total monthly pledges not per person pledges):

$25/month: This target will pay for the website costs  – kind of important if I am to keep posting. Currently The Haventon Chronicles Book 2 and The Whisper of Damkina are serializing on Wednesdays on alternate weeks. Once we reach $25/month total subscriptions and the first month has gone in I will start posting both of them weekly again.

$50/month: Now we’re covering my internet and phone costs as well. Once we reach this level of  support I will post a chapter of Shattered – my traditional fantasy WIP on Patreon once a month for Patrons only.

$100/month: While far from any livable target this is the level where my writing is paying for itself. This will cover not only the website costs but also the costs of preparing my books for publication. At this point I will start up Shattered installments to once a fortnight on Patreon and begin publishing it monthly on the website.

$250/month:  This is the point at which you begin to impact my day to expenses while far from enough live on this amount of money would allow me to start saving more money for emergencies. Patrons will now get Shattered weekly and it will be released fortnightly on the website.

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• Tell your friends how much you love my work ( and tell your enemies you hate it so they’ll read it to spite you).
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Daniel was fighting off a pair of light-wielding Kithreiri when he sensed that Andrew was in danger. Neither of his opponents were particularly strong but the two of them together were already giving him trouble and the shock off the sudden impression made him stumble, allowing one of his opponents to kick his legs out from under him and stab down at him with a glowing sword. He desperately rolled out of the way before it hit, causing the sword to bury itself in the ground instead of his head, and found himself in the line of his other opponent’s claws. He closed his eyes as he realised there was no way to get out of the way this time – but the attack never hit. He opened them cautiously in time to see his attacker sliding off a blue ice blade. Read the rest of this entry »

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Callie?s sister Rachel and her pack held a village about ten miles from Haventon as their territory. Close enough to the town to be inside of its supernatural window but far enough away not to trigger her hyper-territorial sister and to slip under the radar of the traitors. Of all the outer circle pack leaders in the area she was the only one he actually liked. Hopefully elevating her pack to the coveted Haventon territory would give the others a lesson in the sort of behaviour he expected from his pack leaders. He doubted it though, it would more likely provoke a revolt that he would have to put down. Which would put his schedule back but Lucy was right, he did have to deal with the outer circle and sooner rather than later. He just hoped that enough would be salvageable. Read the rest of this entry »

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The image showed Xantaria and Mitakrian standing on the ground just below the floating rock that housed the dark sanctuary. Mitakrian was sitting on the ground with his hands palm-down the soil and his eyes closed while Xantaria hurled blood-red bolts of lightning at the floating rock. She would occasionally try to leap up to ledge by the entrance only to be buffeted away and smashed back into the ground by the winds. Still, it seemed to Lydia that she was getting closer each time. After a few moments, she realised that the rock was getting slowly closer to the ground and that the barren, windswept plain was looking lusher around Mitakrian. Read the rest of this entry »

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Lydia woke with a start as the walls began shaking.

What the hell?! She looked around wildly. What’s happening?

He who was Indirian didn’t answer immediately but she saw shadowy tendrils break off from the pillar of shadow and flow into the walls. After a moment, the shaking stopped and he finally spoke. Read the rest of this entry »

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“How will the hive work while you are at Aletheia?” Amanpreet asked.

“It will be alright,” Prima said. “The others know what to do and one of the diplomats will be coming with me to help even though this is a bit outside the norm for them. It’s a bit out of the norm for everyone” She entwined two of her arms around Amanpreet’s again. “I’m so excited for this trip. There’s so much to learn!” She span around on her stumpy legs with surprising agility dragging Amanpreet into a joyous dance. “It’s so good to be alive!” The other members of her hive joined in spinning sinuously in a circle around them. Read the rest of this entry »