So as part of my revamp of my first ever series, I have been doing up the covers and releasing them again. A new setting and more magic. Here is the cover for what used to be You Can Run - Betrayed Hero. And yes I made the same mistake I made the first time and have a title that is too common but ah well. Natasha's atramento tattoo has given her great powers but it is also making her crazy. She is having dreams of a man stabbed and left in an alleyway. When she discovers her

So when I redid my Atramento series I pulled all the short stories that I peppered at the start of the chapters. They cluttered up the story and it was back when I thought you had to write 50k novels for it to be considered a novel. The short stories were fillers and though interesting, really didn't need to be there. So I thought I would post the short stories here, along with some images that influenced the setting. This story is set before all the books and explains where

The path to redoing my very first series has been a very long slog. So here is my first book I ever wrote and jazzed up a bit. More editing. I changed the setting a little as I wanted it closer to home. Especially since I stripped out as many markers in the original version that it could have been anywhere. Now I've put back some of the flavour that was missing. But best of all new titles and covers. Blurb: Misha is about to be used as a test subject for Halcyon's atramento,

I love novels. I love reading them and I love talking about them and I love writing them. By day I'm a school teacher and of course part of teacher forums where people ask for help, ask questions and share resources. Lately there has been a debate about long novels being read in classes and I want to cry. You see some are arguing that the only good books for teaching are long texts like Shakespeare. I love Shakespeare - I even managed to get to see my favourite play at the Gl