About Hob

Thou speak’st aright.

I am that merry wanderer of the night.

I jest to Oberon and make him smile

When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.

And sometime lurk I in a gossip’s bowl

In very likeness of a roasted crab,

And when she drinks, against her lips I bob

And on her withered dewlap pour the ale.

The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale

Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me.

Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,

And “Tailor!” cries, and falls into a cough,

And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,

And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear

A merrier hour was never wasted there.

• Expanding A Treasure of Bone and Promises (Book 1 of The King who Sings in Winter) into a full novel. Starting the series with a novella wasn’t sensible in hindsight. Most fantasy readers are not very keen on reading shorter stories from unknown writers. The original novella will still be available (likely, under a different title). I’ll make the full novel available once it’s done. I’ve been having a lot of fun with the rewrite. I think there’s a good novel buried here, which is a big part of why I think it is worth doing. UPDATE: Currently sitting at about 110,000 words. Probably another 20-30k words before the first draft is finished.
• Continue posting A Charm for the Nameless Child (Book 4 of The King who Sings in Winter). UPDATE: This is now done.
• Start and continue posting chapters for the final book in the series (ongoing). The Working title for this fifth and final book is The King who Sings in Winter, but that will likely change, as it is the same title as the series… which would be confusing.

Eventually:

• Get a professional editor to look at the full novel version of A Treasure of Bone and Promises, and subsequent works. Hire professional cover art. Set up physical print-on-demand. This is all waiting on finishing the novel length version of A Treasure of Bone and Promises.
• Perhaps expand The House of Snow and Apples (Book 2) into something closer to a full novel. There will be some threads that develop in the novel length version of A Treasure of Bone and Promises that will need to be dealt with, and this seems like the best place to do it.
• I’m leaning towards posting (at least) the first novel in the series on Royal Road. It’s not an ideal story for that outlet, but it would get a little bit of visibility going at least, which would be nice.

Some very long-term goals:

I’ve been meaning to write a sequel to Old Dark Things. It will happen eventually.

I’ve two other stand-alone Clay-o-the-Green books in my head. One of them (The Wrattock Folk) even got to about 10 or 20,000 words at one point. This will be something I’ll come back to eventually or it may be integrated into the Caewen story. Not sure yet.