A couple of years ago, I was asked to write a short story for the Malarkey’s Imaginomnibus anthology series, co-ordinated by the amazing author Ross Young. I was, of course, honoured, and got particularly excited by the writing prompt. It was simply: Fade to Noir. There’s a challenge in short stories. It’s not easy to…
Greetings to all of Jon’s readers and friends! I haven’t been here for a while as something that Jon and I have discovered is the more we write, the more administrative work we have to do, and that stuff piles up! Marketing, website maintenance, newsletters, social media, interviews…it all adds up to a time-consuming schedule.…
When I started writing HUNTERS, I knew that ‘The Ballad of the Songbird‘ was going to be a story that embraced an ensemble cast. I wanted to tell a tale that pulled on multiple strands, weaving them slowly into a cohesive storyline. I knew that Gayle, my main protagonist, was going to be London-based at…
Back in February, I wrote a kind of pseudo-review of an anthology book called Malarky’s ImaginOmnibus. The theme was ‘They Walk Among Us’ and I was utterly honored to be invited to contribute. You can read that blog post by clicking on this link here: THEY WALK AMONG US And click on the picture below…
Where I’m at currently… Many many moons ago, I wrote a blog post regarding ‘Imposter Syndrome‘ and how I – like many other authors – have it. There’s always a sense that what you’ve written isn’t good enough somehow. Admittedly, things have improved a little on that front for me. There are a few reasons…
I thought it was about time I brought you guys up to date with what I’ve been working on, and what my provisional release schedule is looking like moving forward. It’s laid out in timeline order by year and quarter. As this is a ‘Tepris Press‘ crystal ball, I’ll also put in here the things…
Okay, so the image above kinda buries the lead a little here, but I had to shout about it a little didn’t I? It’s been a good month for Tepris Press. As you can see from the image above…I won a thing! YAY! More on that in a moment, but first let’s talk about some…
Imagine. I like that word. It works so well in the context of what I’m about to tell you. Imagine, for just a moment, that you’re spending most of your free time trying to pursue something that has become a passion to you. Imagine, you’re doing okay at it but sometimes it’s a struggle to…
Way back in March this year (16th March to be precise!) I launched the first book in my new series. The Femme Fatales – The Scorched Sky, was the novel that was to kick off the series and set up some of the core characters and the location for the series moving forwards. For those…
I had very much intended to launch Book 3 of the Songbird saga this spring. As you may have noticed…that didn’t happen. There’s a reason for that, and I’ll tell you why. It has much to do with the title of this BlogPost. I started work on TOOTH & CLAW while I was still prepping…
