Cover Reveal for Beathan the Brigante!

Hello! Things are moving on a pace now. 

For ages, I seemed to be getting nowhere but now I'm ecstatic that I can reveal the cover design for Beathan the Brigante. I gave my graphic designer, Karen Barrett, the gist of the 3 elements that I wanted in a composite image. They were:

1. the perfect young male's profile image (that I'd spent ages pouring over image sites to fit my ideal) 2. fire

3. a sense that it was a wooden fort that was burning (I'd found a fort wall) 

Karen found the fire, and a better wooden palisade, and...voila!

I really love my brand new cover and hope you like it, too. You can be sure that I'll soon be sharing it regularly, all over the place. 

The novel is out to beta readers and will, hopefully, be through final edits soon. The publication date for the Ebook of Beathan the Brigante is AUGUST 20th, 2020!

More details of this to follow...

Ocelot Press Short Story Anthology! 

Meanwhile, I've also been getting ready my short story, and a character interview,  for the Ocelot Press Historical Short Stories Anthology which has a publication date of the end of July. 

My contribution- The Pinnacle of Achievement gives Ruoridh of Garrigill a bit more of the limelight and I've been having a huge amount of fun interviewing Legate Gaius Salvius Liberalis, the good friend of my character General Agricola who appears in Books 4 & 5. Legate Liberalis is a strong secondary character at the beginning of # 5, Beathan the Brigante. 

Is he a friend or a foe of Beathan? 

Well, you'd have to read both the novel and the anthology to make your mind up on that. 

And also, look forward in a couple of days to an exciting post about the Vindolanda Roman Fort  (England) which is featured in Beathan the Brigante.  This is my contribution to the Historical Writers Forum Summer Blog Hop. 

Slàinte!