New covers for the four published Artisan-Sorcerer novels can now be shared.  A new cover for Intimations is planned, too, which is a collection of short stories from the series. I'm thinking of expanding this ebook and releasing it as in paperback form, too. There's also a cover for the fifth novel in the series, already designed to ensure that all five covers will look cohesive as a set. I'm going to wait to share this one, though, until nearer its publication time, which is planned to be in 2026. Let me know what you think of the four new covers.

  STATE/BANQUET by Carol Ann Duffy How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service, among the rocks and the rubble, laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table, six crystal glasses per setting. It took eight servants three weeks to polish - silver coated in a thin layer of gold - even the concrete dust in the air seems glamourised and the ruins are decked in the uplifting flags of democracy. To start, fillet of Dover sole filled with salmon mousse, served on a bed of leeks with white wine sauce. Poached Sandringham venison with truffles to follow, then Key Lime Pie, and among the wines, Chateau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, 1990. Yum-yum. Let the trumpets sound on the bombsite as the great and the good pick their way through, and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall. Carol Ann Duffy  was the UK’s poet laureate between 2009 and 2019. The  US president, Donald Trump, and his wife, Melania, arrived in Windsor today to be met by the Prince and Princess...