Dear all, forgive the long delay but with moving around and loosing my password, it has been awhile.   Here is the cover for the Relic Thief, my most recent novel.  It is about the buying and stealing of Relics in 12th century France.  Two of the characters are two of the most evil, most unredeemable characters I have ever created and of course there is a hero.   Hope you enjoy.

Where my soul knew the wind and other poems

Well the poetry book finally was released after six months and I'm very happy with the cover art, and hope you gentle readers will enjoy the poems. Still hard at work on the relic theif and have completed the sequel to The Hiccoughing Dragon, it is called The Lonely Dragon and waiting for the illustrations. The Young Person's Guide to Horrible Human Parasites is completed and just awaiting a few illustration before submission to publishers. So watch this space.

Update

Hey all. Well its been August since I posted on my blog. Still waiting for the publisher's proof of my book of poetry... will post cover, when it finally arrives. Have finished a sequel to the 'hiccoughing dragon' called the 'lonely dragon' and it is with Cindy Rock who is working on the illustrations. Also finished is the 'Young Person's Guide to Horrible Human Parasites' and the illustrations (being done by April McGuire) are about half finished. Still plugging away at the 'Relic Theif' and my non-fiction history of the influence of plagues and epidemics upon history. Irene and a new outlaw still in the wings. The new person for the outlaw series is Temur (Tamerlaine for those who remember Marlow). Enjoy the picture it is from the Tashkent Zoo.

A place where my soul knew the wind

Well, after being written on scraps of paper and hidden away in files, my publisher is going to publish a book of my poetry. Poetry isn't like a novel, where you hide your feelings behind characters. Poetry is about what you feel and experience. Some of it is about painful experiences, and you are laying your soul bare. So it is with some trepidation that this book is going to print.

The Hiccoughing Dragon

Well, the hiccoughing dragon didn't take long for the publisher to process. Here is the cover of the book. Should be available within a couple of weeks.

British Museum Conference on the Bayeux Tapestry

The British Museum has finally finished the editing of the papers given at the international conference in July 2008. I was honoured to have been invited to give a paper at that conference and it is finally in print. A brief synoposis of my paper is that the brother's of King Harold are the only other Anglo-Saxon nobles besides Harold, Archbishop Stigand and King Edward to be depicted in the tapestry. the question is why? My paper explored the reasons why they might have been given a prominent place in the tapestry.

The Hiccoughing Dragon has gone to the publisher

A children's story which I wrote in 1999 has finally gone to the publisher. Part of the delay was finding someone who was willing to illustrate it. Cindy Rock agreed to do the pictures and they are fantastic. I have attached one here. Will let you know of the release date.