Previous Post BYZANTIUM: DEAD MEN'S ROAD is now officially out. Here's the blurb: Award Winning Author I. A. Watson, one of the most prolific voices in New Pulp, takes readers into a world of history of fantasy, one marred with magic, monsters, and mystery in his exclusive original Pro Se Single Shot Signatures Series Byzantium. In a world where Christianity never arose to sweep away the old magics, where sorcerer-guilds and necromancer-kings rule amidst the Roman ruins, Kirkgrim the Wanderer joins a caravan train across war-torn wasteland to the world's most corrupt city. The reluctant hero finds himself trapped with travelers, refugee orphans, deserter soldiers, a beautiful hunted sorceress, and one mad Viking, amidst civil war, religious zealots, brutal reavers, and a growing zombie army - guarding a secret that could bring the last vestiges of civilization crashing down in flames. In Byzantium Book One: Dead Men’s Road, a beautiful woman tasked with delivering a sealed package to the Invisible College in Byzantium is pursued by merciless bandits, relentless undead, and a charming scoundrel who has nothing to lose. And /blurb, what's interesting about this one is that it's volume 1 of a five-part reworking of a very old story I wrote many years ago, prior even to my time at the PVB (Shoggoth will remember the original). This version eliminates some of the overt D&D dervied elements and those based on other people's creations and delivers a story I'm happy to tell today. In style it's probably the closest to my "natural" writing that I've put in print - that is, the style I tended to use for Untold Tales, a mix of adventure and humour. It's out first in kindle e-book format for $1, so it's not a big commercial risk for a reader to take. A collected print edition of the five novellas has been discussed, but it won't be for a good long time if ever. Anyway, it's available at http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Road-Byzantium-Book-ebook/dp/B00LWGO9F8 and some other places. There's also an interview about it all up at Bad Girls, Good Guys, & 2-Fisted Action, Sean Taylor's Blog at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/talking-byzantium-with-ia-watson.html If anyone doesn't feel they've read enough of my rambling on this list, here are some other places I have evidently rambled: Infinite House of Books - it appears I've written some stuff http://www.house-of-books.com/2014/07/15/author-interview-i-a-watson/ Barry Reece's Blog - "Judging a Book By It's Cover" guest article http://barryreese.net/2013/12/30/guest-blog-judging-a-book-by-its-cover-by-i-a-watson-2/ Fight Card - Bish's Beat - an essay on fight scenes http://fightcardbooks.com/write-the-good-fight Free Choice E-Zine - poor Lee had to call my interview two interviews. One of them is available at: http://www.thefreechoice.info/2013/11/a-chat-with-author-i-watson-part-1-of-2.html I don't know if volume 2 ever made it online. Atomic Anxiety - Talking Ulysses King http://atomicanxiety.com/2014/05/04/atomic-interview-20-talking-ulysses-king-with-i-a-watson/ And a couple of other publishing credits have slipped under the wire without me mentioning them here. I have stories in these two anthologies also: Probably next up: my first non-fiction book, WHERE STORIES DWELL. IW

I created a bound copy of the original as an experiment in Japanese Bookbinding (for a first stab it wasn't too bad... The binding, I mean).

I remember the story very fondly, and am still annoyed that I lost my copy of the original. Still, an updated version should be good...

EDIT: Downloaded... Some holiday reading.