Black Gate Calls My Books “Future Treasures”
Black Gate, a speculative fiction site based in the US, dubbed the forthcoming Daughter Of Blood a ‘future treasure’ over the weekend. Which is kinda cool. 😉
Aside from the title, it starts as follows:
Helen Lowe’s The Wall of Night has been getting some good press. The opening volume won the Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut, and the second was nominated for the 2013 David Gemmell Legend Award …
To read the rest, you’ll have to check out the full post, here:
Future Treasures: Daughter Of Blood, Book Three of The Wall of Night
And, of course, the Prologue to Daughter Of Blood was unveiled in an exclusive feature on SF Signal last week:
“Tongues of lightning flashed out of a bruised sky, the wildfire flickering along a broken colonnade before splitting apart around a man’s tall figure. Dead leaves drifted to either side as the rift in the air closed, but no ripple disturbed the length of the newcomer’s surcote, white over blue-black mail, or the fall of his long hair as he passed beneath a crumbing arch and into an open court, bounded by twelve paired pillars. A wide pool lay on its far side, with shallow steps leading out onto a stone platform where a woman gazed into the motionless depths. Her gossamer sleeves stirred in a slight breeze, but otherwise she was as still as the surrounding water and did not turn
when the man joined her … “
But it’s still exclusive so, again, you’ll have to go there to read the rest:
Prologue, Daughter Of Blood
Have a fun week!