writing process – AJ Lancaster

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So, The King of Faerie is the last book in my Stariel Quartet. Well, only mostly, as it turns out. Whilst The King of Faerie (Stariel #4) indeed wraps up Hetta and Wyn’s story and the main series arc, I found in writing it that there was another character whose story needed a bit more… Continue reading The not-quite end of the Stariel Quartet / An announcement

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Hanging with other writers: the RWNZ 2019 Conference

August 29, 2019August 31, 2019 AJLancaster

I headed off to Christchurch last weekend for my first-ever Romance Writers of New Zealand (RWNZ) conference.

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Less than one month to go…

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 AJLancaster

Soooo… THE LORD OF STARIEL ebook is available to pre-order on Amazon! It will release 1 November and I am COUNTING DAYS GUYS OMG. I am both incredibly excited to show it to the world and nervous for precisely the same reason! I think of books as a long, time-delayed conversation between authors and readers.… Continue reading Less than one month to go…

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My Writing Process

October 6, 2017October 6, 2017 AJLancaster

A few people have asked why they can't read Book 1: The Lord of Stariel now if I’ve finished writing it. (As an aside, this enthusiasm is awesome. Thanks guys!) The answer is mostly because I'm writing a quartet and at the end of Book 4 it needs to look like I knew where I was heading all the way back in Book 1.