There’s a reason this newsletter is shorter than normal (but still, I notice, well over a thousand words. Brevity is not my forte); the new novel, Death In Harmony, and it’s bonus tale, Dancing With Death, will be released very soon and I’ll be sharing more details as soon as a date is set. Before this, however, you will also be hearing from me with news of the first anthology, Tales of The Lesser Evil, Volume 1, which is due to be published even sooner than Death In Harmony.
Tales Vol. 1 will be released widely, on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Apple, and others, and also, for the first time, the stories will be available as a print book. So if you follow this newsletter and have no ereader, this will be your chance to read the first four Tales, namely: Only One Death, Dust & Death, Death & Taxes, and A Clean Death.
I’ve also taken this opportunity to revamp and update the books which are already available, playing around with the files themselves, removing superfluous coding and, crucially, revitalising the blurbs of each. For example, here’s the original blurb for A Clean Death, with the updated version below. What do you think?
Old version:
In a city where everyone is masked, how to find one man? And who — or what — is also hiding in the shadows?
Pepper has one more name on her list, just one more death to tick off then she can go home, but this final murder will be anything but easy. She has three days until the city is cut off and she is trapped for winter, three days to find her prey. And finding one man in Youlmouth — where it is law to wear a mask in public — may prove too much, even for her skills.
Hedda has trained for this ever since she can remember, yet the question remains — does she have what it takes to snatch away a life? Does she have what it takes to make Pepper proud?
This death is not a simple task, but events have a habit of overcomplicating the already-complicated, and what Pepper and her apprentice shall discover is beyond anything they could possibly comprehend.
There are things the world does not know, things that live only in stories and whispers of rumour.
Things that want Pepper dead.
New version:
An assassin, her apprentice, and one final murder. A city where it is law to wear a mask in public. And someone — or something — hiding in the shadows. Something which wants them to fail. Fatally.
Pepper has one more name on her list, just one more death to tick off then she can go home, but it will not be easy. In three days, the city will be cut off and she will be trapped for winter. Just three days to find her prey. And finding one man in Youlmouth may prove too much, even for her skills.
Hedda has trained for this ever since she can remember, yet the question remains — does she have what it takes to snatch away a life? Does she have what it takes to make Pepper proud?
This death is not a simple task, but events have a habit of overcomplicating the already-complicated, and what Pepper and her apprentice shall discover is beyond anything they could possibly comprehend.
For there are things the world does not know, things that live only in stories and whispers of rumour, things Pepper never believed were real.
Things that want her dead.
A Clean Death continues the story of Little Pepper — and the apprentice assassin has become the master. Believing she is at the very top of her game, Pepper is about to learn just how much she still does not know. And what she and Hedda shall discover could change the entire direction of history. If they survive.