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The Boy in the Book, the battle of a girl and her friends against the story-mongers who spread rogue stories to manipulate the world. Coming soon.
Just passed the 100,000 word mark with four more chapters to go (of 52 in all).… Read more
Three more of Secret Paths Editions novels are now available in hardcover versions, The Boy & Girl Saga: Boy & Girl (2012), In Search of Lost Girls (2014) and We Girls (2020). Only three more of the published books remain to be made available in hardcover copies, the first three books of The Storyteller’s Quest: The Reaches (2011), The Keeper’s Daughter (2011) and The Starless Square (2016).… Read more
Alan McCluskey lives in a quaint Swiss village known for its wine and waterwheels. After making my way up from the lakeside along a winding path by a noisy stream dotted with tiny waterwheels, I met him in what used to be a girls’ finishing school.… Read more
Local Voices, the sequel to Stories People Tell, is now available in print and electronic format. For sample chapters, links to buy a copy and more information about the novel, click here.
I set aside a novel I was writing in April 2018 called People of the Forest and began Local Voices under the provisional title The Sisterhood of Witches.… Read more
Fran’s father was a monster. He would regularly beat her and abuse her with the tacit complicity of her mother. What 18-year-old Fran didn’t know was that she was adopted. Nobody knew her real parents were a cloud and a handmaiden from a temple dedicated to clouds on another world.… Read more