Been a bit slow with the rush at the end of the semester, but I wanted to give a quick update on what I’ve been reading before I get back into the swing of things when I start at Tor later this month. Drawing on inspiration from the French Revolution, then-debut (the sequel is out…
Hi Mark and thanks for joining me here at A Bitter Draft. Tell us a little about your new novel, Son of the Morning. What can we expect in this historical fantasy? It’s the story of the 100 Years War – Crecy, Agincourt all that – with a fantasy twist. The mythology of the day is taken…
‘Attack someone from behind? There’s no honor in fighting like that!’ ‘There’s no honor at all in killing someone, lad. No matter how you strike. There’s no glory to be had in taking a life.’ General Dun-Cadal Daermon was one of the most famous generals of the Empire. In the years since the Empire’s fall,…
To celebrate today’s release of the final book in the Gallow trilogy, The Last Bastion, Nathan Hawke has stopped by with a word on writing the series and writing in general AND to bring us another fantastic story of Gallow Truesword, Witches’ Reach. Writers, as a breed, are a fairly neurotic lot. We used to keep…
Several months back I was looking through the catalogue for Gollancz and one book in particular caught my eye, and it was Nathan Hawke’s The Crimson Shield. Notice anything different about the cover when compared to others? The title and author aren’t there – they’re on the binding. And with a cover that beautiful, it’s both…
