I’ve been getting an awful lot of parcels lately – is it Christmas or something?

In any case, my last parcel contained the advance copies of The Shadowed Throne – American edition. They look great – I really like the colour scheme. If you want to see it for yourself, it’s already up on the Books page. Or, if you’re in America or Canada, you can wait for January 2014 and go find it in a bookshop!

In the meantime, I’d say we’re about due for the customary teasers for Shadow’s Heart. Stay tuned – they’ll be up here shortly.

This week I received my author copies of The Shadow’s Heart – the final installment in the Risen Sun trilogy. It’s so cool to see all three volumes together the way they were meant to be, and the cover is a nice one, too.

Here is a still life I took of the trilogy on my kitchen bench.

Novels: They’re What’s For Dinner. Along with goat casserole.

As I’ve said before, The Shadow’s Heart is my favourite book so far. I do seem to like the endings of my trilogies. It’s due to be released early next year – I’ll announce it here when it officially hits the shelves!

~KJT, about to eat a rather tasty goat casserole for dinner.

Well, it’s been a while since I promised it, but I’ve finally done it: a new short prequel story has just gone up on the Short Stories page.

This particular story is set a very long way back, and tells the tale of one of the first griffins ever to choose a human, as well as revealing a few other things. I hope you enjoy it!

~KJT, about to head off to town to watch Blackfish and feel ashamed for having visited Seaworld like everybody else

Electronic copies of The Dark Griffin will be on special from Apple from November 25th until December 12th. During that time you’ll be able to get the book for AUS$4.99. Not bad!

Today, in a ludicrous nine and a half hour marathon session, I typed up my Dark Griffin screenplay adaptation. I had already written the whole thing out by hand, so all I really needed to do was transcribe it, but I made some changes along the way. One of the good things about writing things out by hand first is that you get to edit them while you type them up. Unfortunately, I don’t usually have the patience to do it that way.

Something I particularly enjoyed about this project was that I got to retell the story of The Dark Griffin, and had the opportunity to update it in the process. It’s been about five years since I wrote the original novel, so naturally since then I’ve thought of plenty of things I wish I’d done differently – mistakes people have pointed out, and other things I’ve been dissatisfied with. It was annoying because I thought there was no way to fix any of it – but now that opportunity has finally come.

Anyway, I’m about to send off my finished screenplay, and we’ll see if anything comes of it. At least I enjoyed writing it. Now I just have to think of something to write next.

~KJT, suffering from an aching back but amazed that RSI has not set in after all