The World and Adventures of Master Detective Nicely Strongoak and Writer Terry Newman. The #1 USA Kindle Epic Fantasy ***** Bestseller "Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf" now joined by his new adventures: "The King of Elfland's Little Sister" and "Dwarf Girls Don't Dance."
In order to celebrate the forthcoming paperback release of ‘Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf’ we will be giving away a free Detective Strongoak novella: ‘Dwarf Girls Don’t Dance’.
Yes, absolutely free!
Continue reading Free Detective Strongoak Novella coming soon
Elves, you just have to love them, don’t you? I mean, with their natural in-born nobility, un-specified magical powers, tall blond looks, high cheekbones and pointy ears, what’s not to like? No wonder that the most unfairly maligned of youth cults, the peace-loving hippies, was so taken by them. Unless, of course, your elves happen to be small enslaved domestic helpers with no dress sense and a habit of talking about themselves in the third person: “Blobby wear sack now”.
Continue reading The Good, the Bad and the Elvish
Well, looky* here! Some moving pictures and such like all in honour of Nicely’s paperback appearance. Not long now for all you ebook refuseniks
*an alternative form of the imperative look ye! Similarly, the linguist Andrew L. Sihler indicates that ye, the now-archaic subjective form of the English 2nd pers. plural pronoun, “is fossilized in looky (here)
“There didn’t seem to be much doubt about the murder weapon”
Nicely needs to know!
Was the Goblin Grunt with the interesting taste in shoulder pads involved?
Nicely needs to know!
Could the knockout elfess be involved?
Nicely Strongoak needs to know!
Oh look a teaser! Tease, tease, tease!
Detective fantasy or fantasy detective?
A chance to expand at some length about a fantasy writer’s delight in detective fiction and a detective writer’s joy of fantasy writing. Thank you Harper Voyager
A comedy detective fantasy; CSI in the land of Widergard, where fantasy has grown up a bit and Nicely Strongoak is just your average Master-detective-for-hire, if your detective happens to be a dwarf with a handy hand axe. In a city filled with drug-taking gnomes, goblins packing heat and a serious case of missing-persons, Strongoak might just be what’s needed, because this is one dwarf that is never going to leave a single cobblestone unturned.
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