Writing 'The Hound'
I recently finished a new novel that launches an entirely new series. At its heart is an ancient Atlantean artefact: an amulet containing a technological suit of armour. The opening book is set in modern-day Manchester and follows the suit’s new bearer as she discovers not only its power, but its sentience. The armour is not simply a tool. It questions. It reacts. It forms opinions. That awakening — and the moral tension it creates — becomes the spine of the story. ...