Yay! The wait for book 3 of the Tide Lords series is finally over for my many loyal US readers who've had to wait a year for the next installment!

Of course, you'll get to the end of this one and then realise it's a four book series, and then get to the end of the fourth book and email me saying "What??? Is that it???", but... well, I love messing with people's heads. LOL

You can buy it from Amazon here.

Yup! Here 'tis kiddies...

The mass market paperback edition is now available in the US.

You know what this means, don;t you?

The US release of The Palace of Impossible Dreams is only a six weeks away!

Time for a bit of karmic restitution, me thinks, and a plug for a talented young writer.

Ashley Capes, whom I've mentored as a fantasy writer for a number of years now, has just had a book of poetry published (by a real publisher with royalties and everything!! he gleefully informs me). He did this without any help from me, I can assure you. I know absolutely nothing about poetry and wouldn't begin to think I could offer anybody my advice.

I've only read Ashley's fantasy work so far, which you will see on the shelves one day, because he writes action scenes better than anybody I have ever read. Soon as he gets his worldbuilding and characterisation up to the same level, the rest of us might as well pack up and go home...

But I digress. We were discussing Ashley's poetry. According to the blurb:

Stepping Over Seasons artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In ‘Overlook’, Capes argues that it’s much easier for great poets to romanticise the world’s most classic cities by poetically and playfully ridiculing his own not-so-romantic Australian hometown.

Asserting that, in this digital age, everything can be recorded in some way, the poem ‘Late Night’ claims there is no longer a need for people to appreciate things “in the moment”.

The poem ‘Leaking’ describes the love seeping out of two people with the momentum of a leaking tap.

So, treat youselves to Ashley's poetry for Christmas. You can purchase Stepping Over Seasons from here. I'm ordering my copy today, because if I don't, I'm pretty sure the next MS Ash sends me will have a middle-aged scribe in it who foolishly fails to support the town bard and is subsequently devoured - in great and glorious detail - by evil, intenstine-sucking ghouls.

In addition to soul-searching insightful poetry about love, Ashley does rather awesome evil, intenstine-sucking ghouls:)

THe US paperback cover for The Gods of Amyrantha has been unveiled. It's due out May 1, 2010.

See if you can tell the difference between the Hardcover and the Softcover editions: