This is the place where I try and answer the questions that people frequently ask me, or clarify points of interest.
Q. Do you have an agent? Is there someone I could contact who represents your work?
A. I am happy to be represented by Jennifer Jackson or the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York. Jennifer’s contact details can be found on their website.
Q. I’ve just finished Sixty-One Nails. Is there a book three (…four, five, etc.)?
A. There are four books in The Courts of the Feyre series – Sixty-One Nails, The Road to Bedlam, Strangeness & Charm, and The Eighth Court. See here for more details.
Q. Will there be another book after The Eighth Court?
A. Maybe.
Q. What will you be working on next?
A. As of Spring 2013, I’m am undecided. There will be more books and I have a number of potential projects that I’m exploring. When you read the books, you will understand why. I think I will be stepping back from these characters and this world, at least for a while, and writing something else.
Q. I’m having trouble getting hold of one of your books. Can you tell me where I can find them?
A. Unfortunately my previous publisher, Angry Robot Books went into liquidation. Some of the assets and part of the business was bought by Watkins Media who set up Angry Robot as an imprint. In that process Angry Robot lost the rights to my books.
For the meantime the books are only available in eBook format and can be found on the Amazon Bookstore.
Q. Who designed your covers – aren’t they gorgeous?
The Angry Robot Books dark covers were designed by the very talented John Coulthart. The new lighter covers were designed by me.
Q. Can I get signed copies of your books?
A. Yes, I regularly visit conventions and sometimes visit stores to sign copies of my books. There’s usually a note on this site to say where I’ll be and when. If you already have a copy, bring it with you and I will be happy to sign it for you.
Alternatively, I usually have a limited number of copies which I can send out via mail. Please email me or use the contact form if you would like one of these.
Q. Where do you get your ideas from?
A. The quick answer to this is, everywhere. I read books, talk to people, go to interesting events, visit unusual places and have an abiding interest in everything and everyone. Also, one of the great things about being an author who uses real as well as imagined elements in their stories is that people send you things (see the question below).
Q. Do you have a newsletter? Is there any way I can get regular updates?
A. Why, yes. I do have a newsletter which I try to update bi-monthly and which tends to include updates and news that doesn’t make it to the blog. If you would like to be included on the distribution list, send an email to mike at shevdon dot com from the address to which you would like it sent and I will add you to the list.
Q. I found this really cool historical/weird/fun thing. Do you already know about it?
A. Perhaps. Sometimes I find things because people bring them to my attention and they can end up being included in a book. Please feel free to contact me or send me an email if you think you might have come across something of interest.
If your question is not answered here, please email me on mike (at) shevdon (dot) com or using the contact form on the website and I will do my best to answer your query.
We get to explore this new world and its complicated rules and magic along with Niall. We end up racing all over London and Shropshire as Niall (now called Rabbit) and his mentor Blackbird try to save humanity from very horrible deaths. Even though there is some fairly incredible acts of magic in this book, Shevdon has done a remarkable job of making it all believable and tense. There are a couple of scenes towards the end where you really believe that Niall and Blackbird could lose to the feyre nightmares.
When will we hear news of another book? and are any Producers taking and interest in adapting the books to the big screen? I’m in America and just fell in love with your books, I read all four in about a month and a half and NEED MORE.
I would also like to see more about dog star and blackbird. How their son develops in the series with his half sister also.
Will there be more delicious conflict with the seventh court!
Definitely a demand out there. I have visited several times in the hope of seeing a fifth book and possibilities of a sixth?
I have read and re-read about dog star and black bird. As with other reviewers of your work I would also like to see more in the series.
There is demand for the continuation of this series.
I with others will await in anticpation the new novels which will no doubt surface
In the coming year (bring the characters to life again).
Hello Mr Shevdon.
I’ve enjoyed the first book of the serie very much. Now I find out that after 4 books the series is already done.
Which brings one question. Doesn’t eight courts deserve four more books to make it fit ? 😉
Anyway I think the world you created in this serie highly deserve an expantion. I’ll keep and eye on your future project.
Oh and thank you for your work sir.
Rémi Dallaire
Now that you have finished the courts – I hope you keep writing. Your style is very enjoyable, and I especially like the historic trivia tie-ins.
Hi Mike. I just came across your books in a bookstore at Stansted Airport in Essex when I was waiting for my flight to Copenhagen for my holiday. I was actually just looking for something at the bookstore when your bookcover caught my attention and I saw three different books with amazing cover. It’s so difficult to choose which one to grab first until my hand grabbed Strangeness and Charm which I didn’t know is the third book. From the time I first read it, I was hooked. I never would have known about your books have I not seen the great cover. How I wish your books will have a lot of advertisements and marketing so many people will be able to read them and I know they will like them. I really love Strangeness and Charm and hopefully when I finish it I’ll be able to read the first two. Thanks for writing such a wonderful book.
Oddly I have just been given a copy of Sixty-One Nails and I am just about to start it… they are definitely in circulation in the UK.
I enjoy your writing. Keep it coming!
There was a deal for Sixty-One Nails on the Amazon Kindle and I figured I’d give it a try. Although I haven’t read sci-fi/fantasy in about 40 years, I loved it. I also bought The Road to Bedlam and am eagerly awaiting the third book. It’s been a while since I read the books, but it was on my mind, so I came to this site to see if there was any news. I’ll keep checking!
Just finished the 2nd book!! Hurry and get the 3rd out. I need to know what happens –you left me hanging with the birth!!
Wow. I’m not usually a reader. When I start reading, I start to fall asleep. Curious thing though. I started Sixty-One Nails, and just something about it drew me in! I’m working on Road to Bedlam right now. I actually started Sixty-One Nails on a Kindle app for my smart phone, but couldn’t flip the pages fast enough! So, I asked my mother (who works at Books-a-Million) if she could get the book for me. When she told me she had one copy of both books, I immediately went down and bought both of them!
While reading Sixty-One nails, I couldn’t help but think “Wow! This would make an amazing movie!” I think it could be portrayed beautifully as an anime. But I pictured real-life movie with it too!
Enough babbling from me! Keep on with the excellent work, Mike! Looking forward to many more stories from you! Thanks!
Same as the Amber & Phill — just finished Road to Bedlam, can’t wait for the 3rd book!
Cheers from Australia!
Thanks for the comment Phill – I’m writing as fast as I can 🙂
I’m an avid fantasy/science fiction/urban fiction reader and Sixty-One Nails and The Road To Bedlam really pulled me into their world. Cannot wait for the third installment in the story line.
Really glad you are enjoying the series, Amber. I have a newsletter which goes out every month if you would like to keep up to date. Just email me at mike at shevdon [dot] com and I will add you to the distribution list.
All the best,
Mike
I bought both Sixty-One Nails and The Road to Bedlame a couple months back on a whim as I was browsing the shelves at my local bookstore. I read both of them in a single weekend and am now hooked. I guess it was my lucky day because I only just found out that they were only recently released in the US. Now I check almost weekly for any news of a third book. Please let there be one, and soon!
Amber