Proud grandfather. Pissed off looking wizard. War For The Rose Throne series. Priest of Crowns out now from @JoFletcherBooks. Rep by @JennieGoloboy and UTA
May 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There's a thread going on the Fantasy Faction group about villain protagonists, and of course Tomas Piety has come up. Is he *a* villain? Yes. Is he *the* villain of the piece, when almost everyone else is worse? I don't think so.
As i said on the thread, no one thinks they're the villain. Everyone is the hero of their own story, doing what they think is best to serve their cause or beliefs. I'm sure the most evil people in history *thought* they were doing right.
Feb 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I've seen a few threads lately on favourite music for writing. Mine will always be Ronnie James Dio. He was a clasically trained musician who fronted Rainbow and Black Sabbath before he went solo.
It's not because of his lyrics, which were frankly bollocks 1/
I mean, from the seminal Holy Diver:
"Holy diver
You've been down too long in the midnight sea
Oh what's becoming of me
Ride the tiger
You can see his stripes but you know he's clean
Oh, don't you see what I mean"
No mate, I don't. Not a clue what you mean.
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Feb 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ok, I think it's time for some industry real-talk. It's not the 80s, 90s, or even 2000s anymore. It's 2021 in the middle of a global pandemic, and the publishing midlist barely exists anymore. Sometimes it feels like you're either a runaway success, or you're buried.
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Priest of Bones and Priest of Lies did pretty well. They sold to Penguin Random House in the US, Hachette in the UK, and Klett Kotta in Germany (if you haven't heard of them, they publish Tolkien in German), and also to Russia and Italy so far.
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