Tag: The Sky Realms Chronicles

Publication News

I’ve been slack of late, so to make up for it, here’s a list of my recent publications. As a full-time publisher and also having other important roles in life, I’m pretty proud of being able to get some creative output going of late. I don’t plan to stop.

  • Guardian of the Sky Realms (IFWG Publishing International – reprint). This book has seen several publishers and has settled nicely with IFWG which has a track record with middle grade (and up) fiction. While not a teen writer specialist, this was a genuine pleasure to write, and I’m very glad to see it out there in the publishing world.
  • Champion of the Sky Realms (IFWG Publishing International). The sequel, and logically concluding an important thread that had begun in Guardian of the Sky Realms. Again, a pleasure to write.
  • ‘Finding Utopia’ in the anthology The Time Machine: Australia Bound (PS Publishing, eds Steve Proposch and Christopher Sequeira). One of my favourite short stories that flowed quickly and seamlessly. An historical science fiction, which, while obviously about time travel, is really about love.
  • ‘Hill-Runner and the Enemy From Behind the Curtain Of Stars’ in the anthology Into the Cthulhu-Universe: Lovecraftian Horrors in Other Literary Realities (IFWG Publishing International, eds Steven Paulsen and Christopher Sequeira). Another story easy to write, that explores the concept that a proto-North American tribe has existed for thousands of years in what we now call the Americas, whose task is to protect all people from Mythos-based enemies.

All of these books have been globally released over recent months and are available from all good bookstores, online and bricks and mortar, in print and ebook formats.

News: New Sky Realm Arrangements and a Cover Reveal!

I’m extremely happy to announce that IFWG Publishing International has taken on the publishing rights of Guardian of the Sky Realms, as well as the new sequel, Champion of the Sky Realms!

I should begin by saying that the previous publishers of Guardian were great to work with, but in each case, middle grade fantasy wasn’t strongly entrenched in their publishing branding, and so they reluctantly let go of the books and I made the decision to pick them up with my own publishing company. This is something I would not normally do, but given that two respectable publishing houses wanted to publish my first book, and one of them wanted to publish the second, I feel that the two titles ‘earned’ there way into my own business. And I’m excited!

I negotiated the retention of the cover art and most of the design of Guardian by the previous publisher because I absolutely loved it and I couldn’t see it being executed better. And, miracle of miracles, I got the same artist to do the artwork for Champion: kudos to Do Hung Hoang who is a masterful artist.

Hoang perfectly captured the essence of an important episode in Champions in this cover art, including a beautiful Sumerian vista far below the confrontation between Mirriam and her earlier incarnation, many thousands of years ago. Here is the full cover art, less the design:

IFWG will be announcing the release dates in coming weeks, but I thought I would get in early with the nuances of the publishing rights, as well as the sneak peeks!