HIRAETH turns FIVE today! 🎂🐉

Five years of Ellis, Luke, and a dragon love story set in the mountains of Wales.

A dragon, a destiny, and a love worth fighting for.

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Happy book birthday to me! To celebrate, here’s 75% off at Barnes and Noble (US only, sorry!). Use code BNPBIRTHDAY at checkout.

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🎉 FINAL DAY! 🎉
Today’s your last chance to grab Cabbages & Kings for #FREE.

Step into a Robin Hood story that turns legend on its head — and meet Alana Dale, whose voice history forgot.

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🎉📚 IT’S BOOK BIRTHDAY TIME! 📚🎉

Cabbages & Kings is officially #FREE from today until Feb 3 at all major retailers (except Amazon, who refused to play nice 😏).

Hero. Honourable Thief. Lovable Rogue. Scoundrel. Blackguard.
Robin Hood’s story isn’t quite what you’ve been told… and Alana Dale is here to set the record straight.

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Dear Reader: a note about SHE IS HERE

I have a new book coming VERY SOON. I, of course, want you to read it. I’m also trying to find time to prep the events—y’know, what bit/s to read, how to talk about the book—before those events actually begin. Which means I’ve been working out how to talk about the book.

I thought you might like to see what I came up with.

Dear Reader,

Novelists learn very early in their careers to summarise every new book with a pithy phrase. (My first novel Ammonite: “Change or die.”) But today, less than a month before the publication of She Is Here, I am still struggling to define it. Perhaps that’s because it’s not a novel—nor all fiction, nor even prose. Not even text. 
      She Is Here is a selection of various published and unpublished creations spanning my career from before the publication of that first novel through to today. The fiction ranges from very short, to very early, to a novella about the magic of music published here for the first time. The poems were written to express emotion in private—grief, refusing ableism, dangerous lust, and the despair of degenerative illness. None are previously published—in fact, this marks the first publication of any of my poems anywhere. Similarly, I made the art purely for its own sake—in this case, images (very) loosely inspired by the illuminations of Early Medieval gospels. The non-fiction ranges from manifesto to Op-Ed to epistolary criticism to musings on etymology and the double-edged tool that is branding. Different facets from different eras of my creative life.
      That long-ago tagline, “Change or die,” was perfect for Ammonite. More than 30 years later I find it has become the bedrock principle of my life. Writers are often advised to write what we know. I believe, rather, that we write from our deepest self, from who we are. If we want our work to change and grow, we must, too. Life is change—constant discovery.
      The last words of “Glimmer,” the shortest fiction in the book, are “She is here. She has arrived.” The narrator has made a galaxy-spanning journey through time and space, past reality—astonishing, impossible—a miraculous achievement. But the achievement, the arrival, isn’t the point; the rest of her life is about to begin. Because it’s always about to begin.
     She Is Here, then, is a snapshot of a moment in time, containing, as do all of us, bits of the past, present and future. A kind of creative Commonplace Book.
      She is here. I am here. But where, exactly, is that? I have no idea; that’s the point! The joy lies in continuing to find out…

If you like the sound of that, perhaps you’d like to join me for one of those events in Seattle or Edmonds or virtually, before or during publication. I’m curious about what aspect of the book you’d like to know more about—so if you have an opinion, comment, or question, just drop it here.

Meanwhile, feel free to pre-order the book. Or put a hold on it at your library. It’s all good.

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🎉 Happy 8th Book Birthday to Of Land and Sky! 🎉

The Elements stir, new Chosen rise, and an old enemy watches. Bran & Rhosyn must unite Earth and Air in myth-filled Wraidd Elfennol.

📚 Available in Kindle Unlimited!

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Happy book birthday to this marvel (biased)! 🥳

I love all books in this series equally, but I think this one has the most solid plot. It definitely has the best cover. Whether that's because of the subtle foreshadowing or the main attraction, well... can you really blame a girl? 😘 😆 🥰

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