The Tales of Egil and Nix 

The first two novels featuring Egil and Nix, The Hammer and the Blade (June 2012) and A Discourse in Steel (early 2013), are sword and sorcery tales that feature a pair of wily, somewhat shabby, but very likeable tomb-tappers, rogues, and knaves. Both novels will be published by Angry Robot books.

Egil, a burly, brooding priest of the Momentary God, is the muscle of the duo, while Nix Fall (aka, Nix the Quick, Nix the Lucky), a thief and college of wizardry drop-out, provides the brains.  In these stories I’m trying to echo the sword and sorcery tales I love, while bringing to them modern sensibilities and pacing.

You can read excerpts from The Hammer and the Blade (B&N, Amazon, Powells) here, here, here, and here.

The Hammer and the Blade

The Hammer and the Blade, A Tale of Egil and Nix.

A pair of down-at-heel treasure hunters and incorrigible rogues. Egil is a priest, happy to deliver moral correction with his pair of massive hammers. Nix is a sneak-thief; there’s no lock he cannot open, no serving girl he cannot charm. Between them, they always have one eye open for a chance to make money – the other eye, of course, is on the nearest exit. Only this time the treasure they’ve thieved is an important relic of a most sinister and ancient family, who will stop at nothing to get their bloody revenge...

Read excerpts here, here, here, and here.

UK/RoW
5 Jul 2012
416pp B-format paperback
£7.99 UK
ISBN 9780857662446

 

US/CAN
26 Jun 2012
416pp mass-market paperback
$7.99 US $8.99 CAN
ISBN 9780857662453

eBook
26 Jun 2012
£4.49
ePub ISBN 9780857662460

A Discourse in Steel

A Discourse in Steel, the second tale of Egil and Nix.

Forthcoming from Angry Robot Book in 2013.