Hello Readers,
I know, I know… It’s been a long time since my last post. To be honest, I’ve had a lot going on. I went away for a few weeks on holiday to South Korea and came back with Covid and the flu all at the same time. Then I got a chest infection, and after that I got some styes on my eye, I guess because I was a little run down after being unwell, but it has taken months and I still have a stye that just doesn’t want to go away. And now my job has been made redundant, so I’m looking for work. The knock on effect is that I came nowhere near to finishing the reading list I committed to for 2025, which drives the reviews I post here.
All up 2026 has started out as a bad year for me, but life goes on, and I’m looking forwards to things getting better! Sometimes we get comfortable in our lives and the problems and changes we experience, shake things up. I look at this as a good thing. It creates opportunity for improvements and can force us to actually do something new, starting new adventures in our lives.
Speaking of new things, before I went on holiday I started playing around with some AI image generation to see if I could generate some artwork related to my books. It took a little while working with the prompts to get something close to what I was after, but here are a couple of images based on ‘Blood Rage’.
This one is the Ku-Shee, my prompt asked for red eyes, I didn’t get them, but I really like the image itself, it is very close to what I had imagined when I wrote the creature into my book.
Here is another attempt in a more active pose:
I got the red eyes I asked for on this one, which is inspired by the scene where the Ku-Shee is chasing Conall and Erin and leaps at Erin’s horse.
I hope you like the images. I am feeling much better now, but as I still need to look for a new job it may be a while before my next post.
Until then… Happy Reading!