Cover image designed with free to use images from Pixabay and Canva. Photos sourced from Pixabay The shore lights lay slick as an oil spill across the surface of the deceptively slow moving river. The water is formless black, reflecting the night sky. It would be invisible if not for the solid, immutable concrete riverbanks, built up like bulwarks to hold the water in check.

The Relics Saga Book Two: Mishka Silverfloe and the Secrets she Learned is out now in ebook and POD from Amazon and other retailers (clink on cover image for links to retailers)! She Hears All… Mishka Silverfloe, the barely legitimised daughter of High King Torvin knows all about complicated family dynamics. Her father had to deny her existence for most of her life to save her from a tyrant king, her mother sold her into service to a minor deity for political advantage, her fiancé, Kindean Onryn, turned against his family in a bitter war that saw Mishka’s childhood friend, Killean, become her sworn enemy.

This story recently won 2nd Place in the Writer's Magazine "Tight Situation" short story comp in 2024. It is published on the website HERE along with judges comments. You that breathe the upper air don’t know this but what we have here is what us lads in the trade call a tight situation. Well, gentle sirs and ladies fair, in all honesty, the lads around me are calling it lot of other things, none of which I’d repeat to a minister, if you catch my meaning?

Book One in the Relics Saga: The Life and Times of the Traitor Killean Onryn available in digital and print book format at most major online retailers! (Click cover image for Amazon page. Click on book title link for all other retailers incl. B&N) What's a villain to do when he's already lost? That's the question plaguing Killean Onryn, shapeshifter and reviled traitor after he is inexplicably released from a cursed sleep by his enemies and left to eek out an existence impersonating fishing cormorants and evading angry war orphans.

It Happened On A Tuesday On Tuesday 6th, Clive Screed woke up with a headache. Suze was still sleeping so he slipped out of bed and ambled to the bathroom to go through his usual motions before heading to work. Clive had worked at Cordon and Bloom Accountancy for twenty years; he liked to joke that he was a lifer. He ran several blue-chip accounts and would’ve made the upper echelons of management if he’d possessed an iota of ambition.

The Relics Saga Book Three: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale is out now in ebook and print. Keep reading for a sneak peak of the action when the hero of Three Rivers takes a trip to the Netherworld to retrieve his stolen soul! ***** Emerging from the fountain of river water was a creature with the head, shoulders and torso of a woman.

Outside the bedroom window the doppler-wail of sirens screamed pass and brakes screeched as unmarked police cars careened around the corner. Mathilde heard the heavy, air-cutting whop-whop of a police chopper’s rotor blades from somewhere above her fourth floor safe house and paused in the process of applying her foundation. The lights were low in the flat, the heavy curtain pulled almost closed, allowing only a hint of the chaos outside to seep in with the muggy, mid-summer air.

Book Three of the Relics Saga: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale is out now in ebook and print! From Amazon and other retailers! Book Description: The life of a hero is never easy and for war hero and ‘unofficial’ heir to the Three Rivers throne, Nadil Shiny Scale, life is about to become much harder. On a mission to track down vital information on Three Rivers greatest enemy, the elusive Sapphire, Nadil encounters a strange and alluring sorceress who steals his soul.

The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear and Other Stories of Chilling Modern Horror Fantasy is a collection of ten Urban Fantasy/Horror short stories. It is available to buy or read on Kindle Unlimited on Amazon here In a dystopian Britain, Lorraine has a severed hand problem. A trip to the woods turns to tragedy for Bethany and a deal with a love-struck demon goes awry for Chris.

This is your last chance to get, You Deserve to be Here, at 75% off as part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale ending midnight on 1st January! You can find the promo here: A gripping YA fantasy that explores memory, identity, and redemption with heart, magic, and razor-sharp tension. (Bekah Malik Reedsy Discovery 5 Star Review)

(All images of Anne Boleyn public domain. Book cover images created with Canva free to use images) I come hither not to die, nor to live. This journey I take is neither penance nor punishment. The destination no more fitting a place to wile away eternity than any other, but far better than that place that all souls, sinner or saint, fear most.

I’m excited to announce that my YA fantasy book, You Deserve to be Here, is available at 75% off as part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale through to 1st January 2026! You can find the promo here: A gripping YA fantasy that explores memory, identity, and redemption with heart, magic, and razor-sharp tension. (Bekah Malik…

The Relics Saga Book Three: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale is out now in ebook and print. Keep reading for a sneak peak of the action when the hero of Three Rivers takes a trip to the Netherworld to retrieve his stolen soul! ***** Emerging from the fountain of river water was a creature with the head, shoulders and torso of a woman.

‘Not like that,’ Arthur growled as together he and Winkles watched the Woman-Giver-Of-Food, henceforth to be known as Woman, leave the kitchen. Arthur continued to stare for some time after she’d disappeared just in case that improved the situation. Winkles watched Arthur, but when watching proved unfulfilling, Winkles shuffled forward and sniffed Arthur’s flank instead. ‘Oi, watch it.’ Arthur broke off his intense, brooding stare into the middle distance located somewhere between the rectangular door frame and the hallway skirting board and turned back to Winkles.

I’m excited to announce that my YA fantasy book, You Deserve to be Here, is available at 75% off as part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale through to 1st January 2026! You can find the promo here: A gripping YA fantasy that explores memory, identity, and redemption with heart, magic, and razor-sharp tension. (Bekah Malik…

Book Three of the Relics Saga: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale is out now in ebook and print! From Amazon and other retailers! Book Description: The life of a hero is never easy and for war hero and ‘unofficial’ heir to the Three Rivers throne, Nadil Shiny Scale, life is about to become much harder. On a mission to track down vital information on Three Rivers greatest enemy, the elusive Sapphire, Nadil encounters a strange and alluring sorceress who steals his soul.

(Whiplash Road won 2nd Prize in Writer's Magazine "Journey" Short Story Comp in 2024. Find Entry and Judges Comments HERE) Your feet are wet. Your body cold. Your neck hurts. The road is dark; rain glitters on the asphalt, studding the blacktop with a million broken stars of light. Night chill pinches your bare arms. You look down the stretch of road in front and behind you, watching for a car.

The Relics Saga Book Three: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale is out now in ebook and print. Keep reading for a sneak peak of the action when the hero of Three Rivers takes a trip to the Netherworld to retrieve his stolen soul! ***** Emerging from the fountain of river water was a creature with the head, shoulders and torso of a woman.

Book Three of the Relics Saga: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale is out today in ebook and print! From Amazon and other retailers! Book Description: The life of a hero is never easy and for war hero and ‘unofficial’ heir to the Three Rivers throne, Nadil Shiny Scale, life is about to become much harder. On a mission to track down vital information on Three Rivers greatest enemy, the elusive Sapphire, Nadil encounters a strange and alluring sorceress who steals his soul.

I’m excited to announce that my YA fantasy book, You Deserve to be Here, is available at 75% off as part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale through to 1st January 2026! You can find the promo here: A gripping YA fantasy that explores memory, identity, and redemption with heart, magic, and razor-sharp tension. (Bekah Malik…

Amazon Blurb: In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London courtesan became bound together by the publication of a little book: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies. This salacious work - detailing the names and 'specialities' of the capital's sex-workers- became one of the eighteenth century's most scandalous bestsellers.

The Relics Saga Book Three: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale is available to pre-order now and is released on 19th December in ebook and print. Keep reading for a sneak peak of the action when the hero of Three Rivers takes a trip to the Netherworld to retrieve his stolen soul! ***** Emerging from the fountain of river water was a creature with the head, shoulders and torso of a woman.

Book One in the Relics Saga: The Life and Times of the Traitor Killean Onryn is on sale for $/£0.99 from 13th to 19th December at Amazon! Book Two of the Relics Saga: Mishka Silverfloe and the Secrets she Learned is also on sale for $/£0.99 13-19th! Grab them both before the release of Book Three: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale comes out in ebook and print on 19th December! Sample Reviews for the series:

Book One in the Relics Saga: The Life and Times of the Traitor Killean Onryn is on sale for $/£0.99 from 13th to 19th December at Amazon! Book Two of the Relics Saga: Mishka Silverfloe and the Secrets she Learned is also on sale for $/£0.99 13-19th! Grab them both before the release of Book Three: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale comes out in ebook and print on 19th December! Sample Reviews for the series:

Book One in the Relics Saga: The Life and Times of the Traitor Killean Onryn is on sale for $/£0.99 from 13th to 19th December at Amazon! Book Two of the Relics Saga: Mishka Silverfloe and the Secrets she Learned is also on sale for $/£0.99 13-19th! Grab them both before the release of Book Three: The Trials and Woes of Nadil Shiny Scale comes out in ebook and print on 19th December! Sample Reviews for the series: