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Welcome to my 2020 review! In this post, I’ll talk about what I wrote, what I read, what I learned, and what’s ahead for next year.

(Check out my 2019 review here)

First of all, the bid Covid-shaped elephant in the room. I don’t want to make light of how hard it’s made things for so many people. But for me, I had the incredible fortune of living in Perth – the world’s most isolated capital city. We had a few weeks where everyone worked from home, but for the most part, I was lucky to be mostly unaffected by the pandemic.

I spent January and February writing The Sands of Truth (Drowning Sands # 1). It’s an epic fantasy story about a magician who has doomed the world, who now desperately seeks to understand how. I’d describe it sort of as The Name of the Wind meets Macbeth, but set in a desert with nomadic tribes.

The desert drowns.

Standing atop the Pillar of Eternity, we watch the waves roll across the sand dunes, crashing against the rock far below. The great flood has come, as the stories foretold. And I am to blame.

They once called this land the Endless Desert. Now, it’s water that stretches out to the horizon. We are safe up here on the Pillar of Eternity – the highest point in this world, a column of rock that pierces

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The Paternus Trilogy

Truly epic urban fantasy

All three books in the critically acclaimed, award winning series, The Paternus Trilogy, together in one digital box set.

Described as American Gods meets The Avengers, Paternus combines myths from around the world in a modern story of action and intrigue that is “urban fantasy on the surface, but so much more at its core!”

“Fantastically fun and enormously epic. The Paternus Trilogy is a powerhouse urban fantasy that explores the very edge of possibility of what this subgenre can offer, and it is glorious. Highly, highly recommended.” (Novel Notions)

Even myths have legends. And not all legends are myth.

Book 1: Paternus: Rise of Gods

When a local hospital is attacked by strange and frightening men, Fiona Patterson and Zeke Prisco save a catatonic old man named Peter - and find themselves running for their lives with creatures out of myth and legend hounding their every step.

In order to survive, they must join up with powerful allies against an ancient evil that’s been known by many names and feared by all. The final battle of the world’s oldest war has begun.

Book 2: Paternus: Wrath of Gods

Fi and Zeke aid Peter in his globe-trotting quest to seek out the remaining Firstborn, uncover the

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Paternus

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