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'The story of the booth begins decades earlier with Ahmad Zereeni, better known among locals as “Abu Abed.” In the 1950s and 60s, Zereeni roamed the streets of Irbid—and sometimes even Jerusalem—selling newspapers and books by hand. His love of literature and tireless dedication eventually led him to set up a fixed book booth in Irbid’s centre.' 📖 👍 😁 https://jordantimes.com/news/local/legacy-words-irbids-iconic-book-booth-keeps-turning-pages

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My latest release is Little Wolf and the Witch, a Viking-inspired fake-married to the barbarian, only one bed, monster hunt m/m fantasy romance.

Blurb:

After being exiled in his youth, Feilan has earned a comfortable, complacent life in the Siftar trading post. He has very little to worry about…

…aside from a would-be emperor with covetous eyes on Siftar’s trade network, the Vaer raiders who insist on camping nearby every summer, the warrior who got him exiled all those years ago – and the jolterhead who thinks it’s perfectly reasonable to walk the new child-queen of Seven Hills into the raiders’ camp to beg for help.

Renart is young Queen Adeline’s uncle, and he’s trying to save her from a dangerous regency. They desperately need champions for a monster hunt, and Renart is not exactly grateful to Feilan …

The cover of Little Wolf and the Witch. A line drawing of a wolf’S head, with green eyes, below a large title, all in the middle of a flowery orange border
The cover of Little Wolf and the Witch. A line drawing of a wolf’S head, with green eyes, below a large title, all in the middle of a flowery orange border

Or from Kickstarter!

I'm bouncing with excitement so much that I'm going to have to go for a walk to calm down.

Two weeks until the launch of my next book. You folkes are going to love this one. A series of Novellas set on an alien planet. A crashed spaceship reverting to steam power with remnants of technology and nothing is as it seems.

Join up below and please share this for exposure!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharrigon/desolation-book-one-the-overdue-library

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The siege is over but the war goes on. ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.

The harbour at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye is visited by the two central characters at the beginning of the story and this modern image shows it without the military activity they see when they are here.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-eoh/index.html

This modern image shows a view across the harbour at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye, with a white walkway coming in from the left and descending to pontoons at which a couple of dozen small boats are moored. In the upper centre of the frame on a promontory extending in from the right on the far side of the harbour are the remains of a ruined castle. In the distance on the left, beyond a broad stretch of sea, are mountains. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top right corner.

12/5: Share an inspiration for one of your characters.
It doesn’t work like that, not in general.
There’s one partial exception, in that some of the genesis of Hedric was imagining a favourite character from a favourite children’s book series, grown up*… but he rapidly developed beyond that. The whole ‘heir to an Earldom’ thing, for example, was new.
*Can you guess who? There are big clues in some of my Substack posts.

12/5: In what ways does weather or season influence how and what you write?
In the sense that weather and seasons play a role in the stories, they’re important. Crossing the mountains is only possible for about half the year, for example.
OTOH, our weather here doesn’t have much direct impact on my writing. Not like the days when I was doing things like walking guidebooks and one particular publisher…