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The Fortunate Isles

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The Fortunate Isles collects fourteen tales of salt-crusted weirdness from the rugged, cold-clime harbour village of Barradoon... Barradoon: the limit of worldly navigation; stronghold of sea-myths and ancient forces; a place of simmering tension and ruthless vengeance meted out by human and inhuman alike.… Continue reading The Fortunate Isles

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His Unburned Heart

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description His Unburned Heart tells the story of Mary Shelleyโ€™s quest to retrieve her husbandโ€™s heart from his publisher. History tells us that Percy Shelley was cremated, though his heart failed to burn, but the rest of the details are lost to time. Sandner has… Continue reading His Unburned Heart

research, Writing

What is Alternate History?

Pocket watch Image from Pinterest Alternate history is a term readers and writers will often come across as a sub-genre. It is a sub-genre that fascinates me and I often incorporate this into my writing. But what really does writing โ€œalternate historyโ€ really involve? A new guide by AUS author Jack Dann The Fiction Writerโ€™s… Continue reading What is Alternate History?

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Viking Women

Publisherโ€™s Description Letโ€™s travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world. How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can we encounter them as flesh-and-blood beings with fears and feelings โ€“ not just as names in sagas or runes carved into stone? In… Continue reading Viking Women

events, Short Fiction, Writing

Online Live Book Launch!!

Join me and author of Rarkynโ€™s Familiar Nikky Lee for a virtual book launch March 9th 19:30-20:30 AEDST (+11:00 UTC) for The Devil and the Loch Ard Gorge. A belated launch due to my extended illness but itโ€™s finally time to celebrate this gothic horror novelette. The virtual launch will be held live on Facebook… Continue reading Online Live Book Launch!!

Long Fiction, Writing

Background to The Devil & Loch Ard Gorge

In my novelette The Devil & the Loch Ard Gorge, I was inspired by Victorian era Gothic literature and the history of the Australian shipwrecks. You can read more about the history of the Loch Ard shipwreck here. My initial inspiration for The Devil & the Loch Ard Gorge was a song โ€œThe Loch Ard… Continue reading Background to The Devil & Loch Ard Gorge

Long Fiction, Writing

The Devil & the Loch Ard Gorge Release!!

My gothic horror novelette The Devil & the Loch Ard Gorge was released on 15 October, 2022 published by Black Hare Press. Seรกna McKinnon, daughter of a well-to-do London businessman and his wife, finds love in the arms of a lowly artist. Her parentโ€™s disapproval of their relationship lays heavy on her heart until, borne… Continue reading The Devil & the Loch Ard Gorge Release!!

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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

From the Blurb: โ€œ The year is 1806. centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and… Continue reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

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Mexican Gothic

From the Blurb: โ€œAfter receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemรญ Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. Sheโ€™s not sure what she will findโ€”her cousinโ€™s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemรญ knows little about… Continue reading Mexican Gothic