Ravenor: Quick Book Review
A straightforward "inquisitorial procedural". Ravenor and his team investigate the mysterious drug trade in "flects", highly-addictive...
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Richard
- Nov 7, 2017
- 7 min
Hadan's Reach - Sample and Update
Approaching 60,000 words. Still looking at a release early next year. Here's an unedited sample to whet your appetite! They drove north...
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Richard
- Oct 16, 2017
- 1 min
Hadan's Reach: Progress Update and Sabbatical
The writing continues apace! I'm actually very pleased with progress. I've just tipped 45,000 words. I'd originally anticipated finishing...
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Richard
- Oct 3, 2017
- 4 min
Hadan's Reach: sample
A slice of action from the latest novel (unedited, not proofed): They plunged back into the jungle with visors dialed up to maximum night...
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Richard
- Sep 28, 2017
- 1 min
Pilot review scheme
As some of you may know, Amazon reviews are the lifeblood of self-published authors like me. Over 90% of all my sales are on the...
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Richard
- Sep 22, 2017
- 2 min
Current writing project(s)
Hadan's Reach Who remembers in the Art of War Trilogy the frequent callbacks to an event known as the Treaty of Hadan's Reach? A few...
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Richard
- Aug 26, 2017
- 1 min
Children of the Empire is now available!
I'm pleased to finally be able to share Children of the Empire with you! It's available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0753ZJSD9...
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Richard
- Aug 22, 2017
- 1 min
Update: Children of the Empire coming this week
Just a quick one: I'm on the last 20,000 words of the final review of the proofread manuscript, and I've had word back from my cover...
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Richard
- Aug 12, 2017
- 7 min
Children of the Empire: Update and Preview
The manuscript is back from the proofreader and I've just this morning got a pre-visualisation of the cover image which I'm very pleased...
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Richard
- Jul 31, 2017
- 1 min
Children of the Empire: Quick Update #3
So the great knit-together is complete! the book currently stands at a healthy 70,000 words. I've a proofreader lined up for the next...
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Richard
- Jul 27, 2017
- 1 min
Children of the Empire: Quick Update #2
I've now finished reviewing storyline 3 of 4 (Xavier Ansovald, our human janissary). This was one of the longer storylines at 20,000...
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Richard Swan
- Jul 24, 2017
- 1 min
Children of the Empire: Quick Update
I'm currently about 1/3 of the way through editing the 3rd of 4 story lines of Children of the Empire. I'm hoping to have the lion's...
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