Exciting stuff has been happening with the book I'm publishing this Christmas!

The upcoming novel was conceived as an idea to do some shorter fantasy stories with a British author friend, expanded to become us deciding to write a novel together, and ended up becoming a fully-fledged fantasy novel by…me!

Yes, you read that right, this will be my book alone! Why? I have felt inspired lately, and as my writing spiraled out of control—in a good way, I fell in love with the new characters and their completely new fantasy world, and just kept on writing (I think this is often the case with projects you love to work on—you can't completely control everything.)

While I was writing the new novel, the other author originally on the project, Bran Nicholls, was likewise busy with his spiral of writing—doing some great stuff (check out his home page to see what he has been up to.)

Bran Nicholls and I are still the best of friends (as you can see here,) and we plan to continue to work together in the future. Don't be surprised to see if works from him suddenly pop up using the same world as mine, because we decided that it could be fun to work side by side writing about stuff happening in the Kingdom of Kjeldale and exploring the lives of the great fantasy characters living there.

• I will update you later when the release date gets nearer.