Andrew Shaw

DESIGNING THE COVER FOR MY NEW BOOK, RENN

One of the most important things about any book is its cover. It is one of the first things that attract any reader browsing in a bookshop or online to a novel. I think this is especially true in fantasy where an artist can let his imagination run riot. I didn’t really appreciate how much work was involved in the process until I became involved in designing the cover of my own fantasy novel, Renn.

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BLACKSTONE HEART BY MICHAEL FLETCHER

I am a great fan of the work of Michael Fletcher who wrote the Obsidian Path series of books. In the first book, Blackstone Heart, we meet Khraen starts out as a relatively good guy, but that doesn't last long. I think he is underrated as an author. While he clearly makes a living writing fantasy his books don't sell as well as the likes of Joe Abercrombie, although they are very enjoyable. a great examples of Grimdark fantasy.

And as I mentioned in the...

The first book in my fantasy trilogy, Renn, is now available to order! At last! It's taken two years to get from first draft to publication. It is set at the end of the Bronze Age during the rise and fall of China’s first emperor. The story is told through the eyes of two lovers at its centre. One is a princess kidnapped and sold to a brothel who must seduce a foreign king to gain her freedom. The other is her warrior husband who becomes willing to tear an empire apart to find her. It's...