Jonny Nexus

Category: Novels

  • Sleeping Dragon: Geography

    Like many a fantasy world before it, the Sleeping Dragon is an analogue of our own Europe. I could give some kind of academic style answer to that, involving much talk of metaphor and historic analogue, but the truth is that since the Sleeping Dragon has elements of a comic fantasy novel, one in which…

  • My Goodreads Giveaway Is Now Live

    For the next ten days, I have a giveaway up on Goodreads that gives 100 people the chance to get a free advance Kindle copy of the Sleeping Dragon. If you fancy a copy, then please go to this link to enter. You will be required to be a Goodreads member, but if you haven’t…

  • Sleeping Dragon: Gadgets & Items

    Sleeping Dragon’s world is a world of magic, not electricity, with the universal laws of magic explaining that universe in much the same way that physics explains ours. The devices that Sleeping Dragon’s civilisation is built upon are powered by magic, having been designed by mage-programmers and mass-produced in factories. In our world, one word…

  • Countdown to Sleeping Dragon: An Introduction

    The Sleeping Dragon, my third novel, is set in what I call a “post-Tolkienesque” world. Five hundred years previously, it possessed all the standard trappings of a typical fantasy setting – kings, wizards, warriors, magic, dwarves, dragons, and elves who’d been so pissed off at the rise of men that they’d sodded off over a…

  • Announcing the “Manaverse”

    A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about my need to create a name for the fantasy setting of the Sleeping Dragon. Well, a few days later, I have it. Ladies and gentleman, drumroll please, may I give you… the Manaverse. What is the Manaverse? Well as the name suggests it’s a universe,…

  • On The Naming Of A Series

    This is something of an announcement twice over, the first announcement being of a new novel that I’ve started working on1, and the second announcement being that of the resulting marketing / naming predicament that this decision has precipitated. The new novel, provisionally titled the Elven Lands Murders, is not so much a sequel to…

  • Upabove: Sleeping Dragon’s Decaying Jewel

    Sleeping Dragon’s origins lie more than ten years in my past, to a weekend break my wife and I took to Venice back in the autumn of 2007. This was just three months after our wedding, but full disclose compels me to admit that this was the result not of some romantic gesture by me,…

  • The Cast of Sleeping Dragon: Dani

    The cast of the Sleeping Dragon is an ensemble one, featuring five misfits bought together by circumstances beyond their understanding, who swiftly realise that only by working together can they work out just what the hell’s going on and, more importantly, just how the hell they can get out of it. In this post we…