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​"Writing is a passion, an addiction, an incurable need. Once it afflicts you, you have no choice but to write: insatiably. And you are immune to the pain it brings - of failure, of feeling worthless, of frustration, of loneliness - because the words and the sentences and the paragraphs and the verses and the dialogue and the characters and the events and everything else that goes into being creative nourish you and sustain you and drive you back to the keyboard and the pen and the screen and the paper, and you can never stop."

LATEST PUBLICATIONS and NEWS


NOVEMBER 2025

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Millswood Books has released the second book in the The Last Wizard Saga - Chasse.

Haunted by the horrors of his summer initiation and caught up in the changes precipitated by the presence of a baby dragon on the mountain above his home, Chasse must do what he can to protect the people he loves while he comes to terms with an emerging relationship and his new role in the village.

Under his father's tutelage, Chasse continues his dragonwarrior training, but the return of an old foe to Harbin and the emergence of a new threat mean that Chasse must choose between the future of the village or the safety of his siblings and the treasure they are protecting.

Forced to abandon his home to protect his sister, Tam, his brother, Jaysin, and the young dragon, Chasse encounters a stranger in the mountains who shows him a different path towards overcoming his self-doubt and fears to become the warrior he is destined to be.

​The story is available as ebook, paperback and hardback via Amazon US, or print copies can be ordered direct from Millswood Books through the contact link on this web site.

OCTOBER 2025

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This month includes the re-release of a fantasy novel, Tamesan, to be followed by launches of three new novels that will complete The Last Wizard fantasy series.

As daughter of Harbin’s leader, the Dragon Head, Tamesan is expected to learn the traditional crafts and behaviours of a good wife because a dragonwarrior will choose her as his partner when she comes of age. But Tam doesn’t want to be a compliant wife. She wants to explore the mountain above her village and learn more about the world. A chance encounter with the Herbal Man, a recluse healer who lives on the mountain, gives Tam an opportunity to follow in his footsteps, against her parents’ wishes.

When the Harbin dragonwarriors sail south on their annual summer pilgrimage to fight dragons, Tam’s older brother travels with them as an initiate, but tragedy strikes, and Tam’s father and brother are lucky to return alive.

For Tam, the fateful journey and her relationship with the Herbal Man reveal a dark and terrible secret that lies at the heart of her village’s culture and another secret that is hidden in the mountain, and she must choose whether to expose the lies and tell the truth that will forever change everyone’s lives in Harbin or stay silent and submit to the village's cherished beliefs and traditions.

JULY 2025

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Our latest publication – All We Have – is a speculative pandemic and zombie apocalyptic tale recorded as diary entries by a survivor against the odds. Australia is invaded by extremists in the wake of a devastating global pandemic with an extremely high death rate. A third year university student survives several attacks on Adelaide and also discovers that he is one of the very rare people with immunity to the rampaging virus. His bid for survival takes him on an extended journey from Adelaide to the Coorong and beyond, fighting the enemy and marauding gangs and virus-fuelled zombies, before he is captured and shipped to Brisbane to be studied. Escaping from Brisbane to North Stradbroke Island through the aid of an enigmatic ally, our protagonist finds himself on a Chinese destroyer that transports him because of changing situations via Brunei to the Spratley Islands where scientists are trying to create a vaccine to save humanity from the zombie horde.

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