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I’m thrilled to reveal the cover to the up-and-coming second Darkstar novel. The Return of the Whalefleet will be released later in 2021, and will be a cornerstone of a special Kickstarter campaign to publish the Darkstar novels as hardback editions – the Kickstarter will go live later this month. I’ve been blessed with Jenny Zemanek’s design work on all of my covers, but Whalefleet’s is my favourite so far – she perfectly captured the otherworldliness of the Darkstar Dimension.

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Today is the day… the Yarnsworld audiobook collection is complete!

Don’t draw your blade in the City of Swords, unless you’re willing to kill…or ready to die.

Prepare to discover a world of masked swordfighters, where not every story about your heroes can be believed…

I’m also thrilled that this audiobook comes with a bonus recording of one of my favourite Yarnsworld stories – the novella ‘And They Were Never Heard From Again’.

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Since they were first released, my ebooks have only been available on Amazon stores… until now! In part thanks to the success of this year’s Kickstarter campaign, all of my ebooks (except for the newly released ‘Taniwha Girl’) are now available on multiple ebook platforms, including Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo and Barnes & Noble. (‘Taniwha Girl’ will join the rest of the Yarnsworld novels on these stores early in 2021).

If you are interested in grabbing any of my books from these platforms...

This is the map of the Crescent Atoll, funded earlier this year by 226 amazing people on Kickstarter, and hand-drawn by cartographer Mikael Asikainen.

It is included in the newest Yarnsworld novel, ‘To Dream and Die as a Taniwha Girl’, which was made available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited last week. (The novel will be removed from Kindle Unlimited in 90 days, when it will be available on all other ebook platforms).

Mikael sells prints of the map here: https://www.inprnt.com/…/the-cresce...

To Dream and Die as a Taniwha Girl is live on Amazon!

It feels this is the Yarnsworld novel that has taken the longest to get into your hands, and I’m thrilled to say that day has finally arrived.



Grab the new novel now!



As has become tradition, I also have an EXCLUSIVE prequel folktale on offer for anyone who picks up the novel in the first week. In order to get your copy of ‘The Taniwha Girl and the Crab’, send proof of your purchase (or Kindle Unlimited download) to benedict@benedictpatr...

The fifth Yarnsworld novel, To Dream and Die as a Taniwha Girl, will be released in a few weeks, on 18th November!

As you may very well know, the novel first came to life on Kickstarter, where campaign backers funded the first ever hand-drawn map of the Crescent Atoll, and I’m delighted to say that map will be included in the wide release as well, and we’ll be doing a public reveal of it soon.

There’s another important announcement – ‘Taniwha Girl’ will be debuting on Amazon stores, an...

Head HERE now to grab your copy of the first Yarnsworld audiobook, a bundle including both They Mostly Come Out At Night and From the Shadows of the Owl Queen’s Court!

Just a very quick message to let you know that the release date for the first Yarnsworld audiobook has arrived!

The audiobook is released on 22nd September, and will contain both of the novels set in the Magpie King’s forest – They Mostly Come Out At Night and From the Shadows of the Owl Queen’s Court!

To make sure you don’t miss out, the audiobook is available to preorder right NOW!

I’ve had a listen to much of ‘Mostly’ already, and Derek’s performance gives me goosebumps – he has really e...

A final word about this, but this time to say ‘thank you’:

At midnight last night (UK time) my Kickstarter campaign finished. It was almost 500% funded.

That is (does quick maths on fingers) a bajillion more funded than I had expected or even dared to hope for.

Not only is To Dream and Die as a Taniwha Girl going to get a ridiculously gorgeous map (I’ve seen sketches – gorgeousness is happening), but the above-and-beyond level of support means a whole lot more for the future of the Yarnsworld a...