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  Hello! I wanted to share a post about:  Books with Middle Eastern Main Characters My books specifically! 😂 But first, a quick PSA about what Middle East means and what you could expect from picking up a book with a Middle Eastern MC. Middle East is a region, not a religion. It is also known as West Asia. There are numerous religions across West Asia, just like there are numerous religions across other continents too, including but not limited to the dominant monotheistic religions, such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism. Also, some people are Atheist! This is all important to remember. People aren't a monolith. Books with Middle Eastern main characters doesn't automatically mean a story about religion, or characters who are religious.  If you pick up one of my books, what can you expect to find? A queer and BIPOC cast, for starters! I also write about badass, competent Middle Eastern hotties, with wry humour (sorry, not sorry), mixed ethnicity mc's, immigrant mc's, lot...

  Hello, welcome back! I am starting a brand new email list. If you sign up, you'll get a notification email when I have a new book out, straight to your inbox, no need to search through socials. Sign up here!  A bit more info:  Why am I making this list?  Well, with social media algorithms being somewhat unpredictable, it makes sense to build my own email list as an author. That way, if you want to keep track of my new releases, you know you'll be getting an email notification straight to your inbox without having to trawl through socials to find an update or a buy link. Please note, this email list isn't for ARCs or street team updates, this is purely for a quick ping about my new releases or major updates. Being on this list means you'll get one to two emails per new release. E.g. pre orders open/release date set, and the book buy link. If there's a major schedule update, I might send an email about that, but I hope to keep updates to a minimum overall (because I...

This is probably not the spice you are searching for... 🤣 But this is the spice content in my book!  You may have noticed my MMC, Murad, carrying his bags of spice around in ATBOD, my medieval era Fantasy novel. Murad is a West Asian messenger sent to Britain. It's not his first time there, and he arrives armed with eating spice to season the British food. Why? Because in my alt timeline of history, Britain has been cut off from the spice trade for many years, along with other trade sanctions. (If you didn't know already, this story was inspired by the modern disaster known as Brexit.) While Britain in the middle ages would've had spices for food, I actually wanted a way to represent what it felt like growing up in Britain in more recent times, when only bland unseasoned food was available. (Sorry, not sorry.) Yes, things are a little spicier now in the 21st Century... but for the first half of my life in the century before that, lol, finding decent food was a struggle! An...

Fantasy Written For a Heavy Metal Soundtrack Welcome back to my blog! It's time for another fun post. If there's one thing I do consistently, it is pick absolute BANGER tunes for my social media posts. I decided to delve into that for ATBOD, my medieval era Fantasy novel.  So, without further ado, please enjoy the three soundtrack themes for ATBOD! Heavy Metal Brian May 's epic guitar set to a backdrop of 80s glam metal. Am I describing the score to Masters of the Universe ? Yes! Perfect for dramatic sword wielding!  Also: Cathedral - Witchfinder General  Don Felder - Heavy Metal (Take A Ride) I'll also take a heavy metal remix of Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero. 80s Synthwave An epic score that evokes the Dark Fantasy films of the '80s. I'm talking Excalibur, Ladyhawke, Legend; exciting scores that mix medieval chants and classical music with prog and synth.  Neil Acree - The Mighty Nein (theme) The Cure - Burn  Depeche Mode - People Are People...

  As a way of celebrating my the release of my fourth book (!!) in two years,  I thought it would be fun to gather a few of the compliments readers and reviewers have said about my books so far! These are a few snips that have stood out to me, but is by no means an exhaustive list. I'd love to do a part two to this, maybe I'll make it a thing? So by all means please keep 'em coming! Authors need fuel! Presented in text format so it's easier to read, and in no particular order:  "I'm very impressed by this author, this is the third book I have read and they are all so very different - and all so very good." "One thing C Quince gets me to do, is to read books that I did not know I wanted to read until I read them. I hold my hands up, whilst I have heard of Steampunk, I did not know that Solarpunk was a thing and now I want more." "I'm not sure what it is, but there's something about C. Quince's writing that scratches an itch so rig...

Paperback Art Reveal! This is the full wraparound cover art for the paperback edition of At the Border of Destiny, my Historical Fantasy novel. Shout out to my cover artist Kalimpaszmadar for this stunning piece of art! 🪾🪾🪾 We both loved the thorn forest border! Yes this version of the art is a little different from the ebook, which is brighter in tone and without much of the thorn forest. We hope you like the paperback art as much as we do. I know I'm in love with it! 🩷 ATBOD is available now from most major retailers! 🎉  F ind ATBOD at your favourite online bookstore, then select 'format' to change it to a print edition.  Some links: Buy paperback - Amazon US Buy paperback - Amazon UK   I will be running a special paperback edition giveaway at some point soon, so keep an eye out!  Please rate and review queer indie books, it really helps us indie authors get seen! Add ATBOD to your TBR shelf now: Goodreads Storygraph   Purchase ATBOD as an ebook on Kind...