Greetings lovely people—
Well, it’s a new beginning for my Arthurian series, and I do mean a literal new beginning. I completely rewrote the first book and seriously revised the second and third, and the first two are now available as ebooks (paperbacks are coming soon, the third book is at the proofreader).
This means there is no more Our Man on Earth and now Book One of The Swithen is A Man of Our Kind.
For me, personally, this is a huge thing, because for the past year and a half I have stopped promoting the series because I knew these big changes were coming. So there have been next to no sales and no motivation to keep writing from people reading and leaving reviews. So I’m super-excited to get these out and it’s very motivating as I start to continue the series with Book 6.
For the series it’s also a huge thing, because for the first time I think the first book is really GOOD. I was never quite proud of it before and didn’t feel great recommending it to people. Now I think the whole start of the series is much stronger and it has a much more cohesive continuity moving from the birth of Merlin through the three kings that precede Arthur (his father and uncle), and then into the King Arthur story we feel we know (although we don’t, really).
The second book is thoroughly revised and much more vivid, the characters much more fully realized, but it is generally the same story, just vastly improved.
If you want to read more about the thought process that went into the rewriting of the first book, I just posted this author interview that goes into detail about what has changed.
If you want to check out the books themselves, here they are. So far, only ebooks at Amazon, but paperbacks will follow and then more outlets. Etc. You know, the whole world domination thing.
And I’d always love to hear from you if you feel like contacting me.
A Man of Our Kind: The Swithen Book One in ebook at Amazon
The Sons of Constance: The Swithen Book Two in ebook at Amazon