by Dan | Feb 19, 2016 | children's books, design, fantasy, Gunpowder & Alchemy, history, Indie publishing, steampunk
Updating my covers and this is the third book in the Gunpowder & Alchemy series: The new cover: The old cover is largely the same design but from this I added the English Civil War pikemen and cavaliers plus the WW1 tank! What do you think, is the new cover better...
by Dan | Feb 18, 2016 | children's books, design, fantasy, Gunpowder & Alchemy, Indie publishing, juvenile fiction
The next cover in the Gunpowder & Alchemy series is a bigger change. Here’s the new cover: This is the old Dark Water Breaking cover: I think that it’s clearly better but it is also the hardest cover for me to work out. What do you think, is...
by Dan | Feb 18, 2016 | children's books, design, fantasy, Gunpowder & Alchemy, Indie publishing
I’ve updated my covers for Gunpowder & Alchemy. Here’s the latest version of book one, White Wind Rising: For reference, here’s the old version: Not massively different but strangely the downloads per day have gone down since I...
by Dan | Jan 7, 2016 | fantasy, history, Robin Hood, the Immortal Knight Chronicles, Vampires, writing
Vampire Outlaw: the Immortal Knight Chronicles first draft is going well. I’m averaging about 3,000 a day, which is great considering we just had Christmas and New Year. Some days I’ve put in over 6,000 words to keep that average up. Right now, I am...
by Dan | Dec 12, 2015 | fantasy, Gunpowder & Alchemy, history, juvenile fiction, steampunk
Great news, Gunpowder fans! Book 3 is now available in all good eBook stores! Get Green Earth Shaking here, right now: Amazon US and Amazon UK Smashwords Kobo iBooks and Barnes & Noble will have it any moment now… So, what’s it all about, eh? She may...
by Dan | Dec 6, 2015 | fantasy, history, horror, Indie publishing, the Immortal Knight Chronicles, Vampires
I think I know who my readers are. For the Gunpowder & Alchemy series they’re people who are into stuff like His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Septimus Heap, How to Train Your Dragon, etc (whether those fans are adults or children). I am...
