David Shepherd | November 27, 2011
At the end of a physically and mentally exhausting fortnight, I was able to click send on the manuscript of Sins of the Father. Book three is now in the hands of the SOTE technical team, being prepared for release on kindle and on lulu.com. Suffice to say, its the most suspenseful and heart-wrenching installment [...]
David Shepherd | November 15, 2011
I’m half way through the final proof read of Sins of the Father, so should have that boxed off and ready for final formatting by the end of this week. I’m also waiting with baited breath to get to see the cover to book three. Like the first two, its been put together by the [...]
David Shepherd | November 7, 2011
Emotionally exhausted, I sagged against my keyboard, Sins of the Father completed… After eight long years, the third chunk of the Song of the Elves saga is complete. In 2005, whilst writing what will now become Book 4 of SOTE, I realised that I needed to fill in a bit of background in the life of [...]
David Shepherd | October 31, 2011
Sorry for the delay in transmission – coming from the red half of Manchester it’s taken me more than a week to get over the thrashing administered by our ‘noisy neighbours’. However, normal business is now resumed… One chapter to go on the final edit of Sins of the Father, and I’m getting a major [...]
David Shepherd | October 17, 2011
Terry Pratchett once wrote that if you are attempting to write fantasy, one of the most important things to do is to make sure that you do not just read fantasy as your literary diet. The theory goes that no matter how fantastical your world, the laws that govern all elements of that world and [...]
David Shepherd | October 10, 2011
Like the unfortunate objects that have strayed too close to a dying star, the protagonists of Sins of the Father find themselves inexorably pulled to the black hole that is the arrow. Book One of Song of the Elves took you to a scene in the Horseshoe pass – a soldier lying wounded in the [...]
David Shepherd | October 4, 2011
As the climax to book three, Sins of the Father builds, I am reminded of how central to the plot are the relationships between fathers and sons. Kirik will find his faith in his father tested to the limit; Prince Nemar and Prince Warseratt are so divided in their view of their father’s style of [...]
David Shepherd | September 25, 2011
Kirik’s dream visitations to a white walled castle are becoming more vivid as Sins of the Father heads towards its dramatic conclusion. I’ve got about another month’s worth of editing to do before I do a final word level check on the book. I’m still aiming for Christmas as a release date for the book [...]
Nick Peirson | September 19, 2011
For those of you who haven’t ordered your copy of The King’s Blades in the four days it’s been available, we’ve got our hands on a discount code that will save you 15% off all your Song of the Elves paperback purchases. To take advantage of this, all you need to do is enter the [...]
David Shepherd | September 15, 2011
It’s official – you can now get your hands on a swish, high-quality trade paperback of The King’s Blades. For those of you without a Kindle, who’ve just read the first instalment and are eagerly awaiting the next, the book is available now from lulu.com. For the collectors amongst you who enjoyed it as an [...]
