Weekly Gossip

Here is your news from the past week!

First up, the cover reveals.

Rachel Vincent has released the US cover for Oath Bound, the third and final book in the Unbound Series.


I think it's beautiful! I currently much prefer the US covers than the UK, this cover in particular. What do you think?

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Guest Post: John Lucas on Hackney

Today I have the pleasure of having John Lucas, debut author of Turf, guest posting on my blog to talk about his experiences in Hackney, one of the inspirations behind his debut author.

Hackney

By John Lucas

I left university in 2007 with three ideas that I wanted to turn into novels. One was a dystopian epic that I didn’t feel at that stage my writing skills could do justice; another was the story that is slowly turning into my second novel; and the third was what eventually became TURF. The deciding factor for choosing TURF was that it was set in Hackney and was the easiest to research. I just needed to explore the local area. At the time, the gang element was only a minor theme in the book – instead it was mainly concerned with Hackney and its residents – so I spent a lot of time walking around the borough, soaking in the atmosphere, picking up on its idiosyncrasies, and really trying to nail down what it was that made the place tick.

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