Editing, editing and more editing! I’m working in depth through Boy & Girl (that’s the name of my latest novel, folks!) reading it out loud, sentence by sentence, to hear if it sounds right. It’s an excellent method.… Read more
Finished
Epilogue
I am some ten chapters from the end of my latest novel, Boy & Girl, and up to yesterday I still had no idea how it would end. Then suddenly in the evening everything fell into place and the end was clear and startling and brutal.… Read more
Peter
No, not Peter Pan. Peter is the code name for Alan McCluskey’s latest novel which is currently being written. Read a short extract from the beginning of the book and see a map of the island of Drailong which figures later in the book.… Read more
Books on Kindle
Both The Reaches and The Keeper’s Daughter, books 1 and 2 of The Storyteller’s Quest, are now available on Kindle for only $4.32. They are also available on Apple’s iBookskstore and on Smashwords as well as in print format from Amazon, Createspace and Secret Paths.… Read more
Secret Paths books now available on Kindle
StoryFolk draft finished
I have finished the complete draft of StoryFolk, over 160’000 words. I began writing the novel about this time last year but had a long pause while I worked on other novels.… Read more
Back to the origin
Photo taken where the cover photo of The Keeper’s Daughter was taken. These botanical gardens also inspired the prologue of the Keeper’s Daughter.… Read more