I had not expected choosing a cover for Why the Curlew Cries to be so difficult.
By the time a manuscript reaches this stage, you know the story intimately. You know its silences, its hidden wounds and the places where darkness gathers. Then you are asked to reduce all of that to a single image.
The cover needed to capture the isolation of the Ox Mountains, the beauty of rural Ireland and the uneasy feeling that something terrible may be happening just beyond sight. It had to feel literary...
I am currently putting the final polish on my first full-length novel, Why the Curlew Cries, and I have discovered that finishing a book can be almost as difficult as beginning one.
These final days are strange.
The story is written. The characters have lived through everything I asked of them. The secrets have been uncovered, the wounds have been opened, and the final page is waiting. Yet the manuscript still refuses to feel entirely finished.
There is always another sentence that catches at...
The wait is nearly over.
On March 30th, the next chapter in the bestselling, award-winning Raven Chronicles arrives on Kindle, with the paperback landing April 1st—and this time, the story does not hold back.
Setanta is no longer the boy who stood at the water’s edge. The world has opened, and what waits within it is older, darker, and far more violent. Villages fall silent. The land itself feels wrong. And at the centre of it all is a name whispered in fear—the Blood King.
This is a story of...
The world of The Raven Chronicles continues to grow darker.
With the upcoming release of Setanta and the Blood King, Setanta’s journey takes a dangerous turn into the heart of one of Ireland’s oldest legends.
In this third instalment, Setanta finds himself facing Abhartach, the Blood King, an ancient tyrant who clawed his way back from the grave and now commands the terrifying Sluagh, the Host of the Unquiet. Villages live in fear beneath dark skies as the dead gather in flocks and the land...