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After a very successful trial run last year, Speak Its Name‘s Advent Calendar is back with articles and free stories from a different author every day, a give-away every day, and a bonus Christmas give-away on the day.  But you have to comment on every day’s post to qualify for that one.  Hop over and…

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Huzzah! This is part two of the story that began in Sons of Devils, but with a change of location and an upping of the stakes (heh) I like to think it feels like its own entity. If last book was a love letter to Romania, this one is a sonnet to Istanbul, although I…

After repeatedly saying that I intended to go into London to look at the Queen my books in an actual bookshop, I finally got around to it today.  What a thrill!  OK, the whole driving into Ely, parking in the free longstay car park and walking a mile in blazing sunshine to the train station,…