Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones: revamped
A couple of weeks ago, my brilliant cover designer, Dave Slaney, made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: he said he would re-do the cover of Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones, a novel I wrote back in 2020, for a discounted fee. I bit his hand off. I had not been happy with the old cover for years but had never got around to fixing it. And this self-published novel, many people told me, had far too many typos – some even said these mistakes ruined their enjoyment. So, five years after it was first published, here is the new, typo-free (I hope!) version of the book, with a smart, brand-spanking-new cover. Hope you like it!
The story takes place only a few months after Robin Hood and the Caliph’s Gold, and it is a little bit shorter (and sweeter) than my other Outlaw Chronicles novels. It is also, I think, the funniest book in the series, too. I found myself laughing out loud when I was going through it and editing the text. Alan Dale is young (only 17 in this one), foolish, love-struck, and he drinks far too much. He is, I think, basically me as a teenager.
Anyway, here is the back-of-book blurb:
Spring, 1192: Robin Hood and his band of men, travelling home from the Third Crusade, find themselves in the lush, wine-rich Duchy of Burgundy. When they are captured by a renegade knight, and taken across the River Saône to the rival County of Burgundy, they are plunged into a nightmarish world of treachery, deceit and cold-blooded murder.
While the cunning Earl of Locksley plots and schemes to advance King Richard’s cause in the two Burgundies, Alan Dale, his loyal lieutenant and personal trouvère, embarks on a private quest to rescue a damsel in distress and falls foul of the monstrous guardian of the Castle of Bones.
So, if you hurled this book across the room last time you read it, infuriated by all the typos, then I ask you to please give The Castle of Bones another go. And if you’ve read it, and don’t fancy re-reading it, but you have enjoyed the rest of my series, maybe try my brand new Outlaw Chronicles novel: Robin Hood and the Heretic Prince.
In other news . . .
I have a new series starting at the end of August. The first book in this new Mongol trilogy will be called Templar Traitor, and it is based on the TRUE story of an English knight who fought for Genghis Khan. You can pre-order it now from Amazon, and I wish you would as it really helps me, or you can buy it in August.
