I messed about for ever and eventually just reversed the cover of the first book and changed the colours a bit.

I’ve finally published The Trouble with Unicorns after having problems earlier in the year with the formatting of the first book, The Virgin and the Unicorn.

There wasn’t going to be a sequel but a reader asked ever so nicely. It isn’t exactly a sequel because it doesn’t have the same main characters. Prince Alair and Kian do appear but only in minor roles. However, much of the action takes place around Kian’s Castle Onehorn and of course there are unicorns.

The story starts and ends with midwinter celebrations where Cory (a minor character in the first book) meets Galad. During the following year there is plenty of action and angst but by the time midwinter comes round again there’s a happy ending.

I’ve been trying to market it and entered it in an Advent giveaway, but have just found most of my links to my pages here are broken or just not as they should be. So you can imagine there’s a huge New Year Resolution in store!

Here, of course, we’ve just had the Solstice and that’s very special to me. For one thing, I like the idea of tying festivals to natural events and for another it’s my daughter’s birthday. I don’t like the darkness of mid-December but I do like all the holiday lights and glitter that somehow raise the spirits. I think fantasy worlds are bound to have their own celebrations of one kind or another and as this particular world has similar seasons to our own I’m sure the people would mark the longest and shortest days.

I hope you had a happy Solstice and will have a great time in the coming weeks whatever you celebrate, even if it’s only time off work!