I have just heard that Dragonkeeper (or Huterin des Drachen) has won the German Kalbacher Klapperschlange award. This is my first award outside Australia, so it is very exciting. It’s hard to find out how my books are going overseas, very hard to get sales figures etc. So it is wonderful news. Klapperschlange means ‘rattlesnake’ [...]
I’ve been getting a few emails from UK readers who are wondering when Garden of the Purple Dragon will be out in that part of the world. Macmillan tell me that it will be out in February next year, along with the paperback edition of Dragonkeeper. Meanwhile I have to have a second draft of [...]
Just a quick note to say that the overseas and alternate covers for Dragonkeeper, Garden of the Purple Dragon, Black Snake, Ramose: Prince in Exile, Ramose and the Tomb Robbers, Ramose: Sting of the Scorpion and Ramose: Wrath of Ra have now been added to the website.
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