About

About the Author

David McLean was born in London, grew up in North-East England, and now lives in London again with his wife and son.

The Wolf in the Blood, The Wolf Cure and The Nine Wives of Randal Rhin form part of a series of novels and novella collections which together make up the epic WOLF IN THE BLOOD story arc. They tell one story.

The next novel in the TWITB series, Fox Silver, will be published in 2021). The others will be published sometime between then and the heat death of the universe.

Amazon author page here.

This website was last updated on 26 August 2020 and is still active.

How These BooKS WERE Written

THE WOLF IN THE BLOOD, THE WOLF CURE and THE NINE WIVES OF RANDAL RHIN were written almost entirely with my right thumb (I estimate about 95% of each). I wrote them and largely edited them on a series of iPhones, starting on a 4 and finishing on a 7 for TWITB and entirely on a 7 for The Wolf Cure and Nine Wives. I used Google Docs and Drive to write it in, the Kindle app on my phone to proof-read, and then regular old MS Word to proof-again, finalise and publish via the Amazon KDP publishing platform.

TWITB clocks in at about 220,000 words. The Wolf Cure is about 96,000, and Nine Wives is about 83,000. Fox Silver will be about 200,000 words. The entire series is being written this way. It will be well over a million words when it is completed and probably closer to 1.5 million.

It took over five years to finish the first draft of TWITB. Most of this time was spent not writing; I stopped writing almost completely for almost a year in the middle. The Wolf Cure was written in five and a half months between October 2018 (just after I published TWITB) and April 2019. It turns out having published a book is excellent motivation to write another one. :) Nine Wives was written between roughly September 2019 and June 2020.

It was, and remains, great fun to do all this.

You can do this too.

SWORDSAINT PRESS

The Wolf In The Blood and The Wolf Cure and Other Stories are published by Swordsaint Press®, a registered trademark in the UK.

Email: publisher@swordsaintpress.co.uk

LEGAL STUFF

The Wolf In The Blood

First published in Great Britain 2018

The Wolf Cure and Other Stories

First published in Great Britain 2019

Story Sieglind

First published in Great Britain 2019

The Party

First published in Great Britain 2019

The Nine Wives of Randal Rhin

First published in Great Britain 2020

David McLean has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as Author of these works.

No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organisation acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in these publication can be accepted by Swordsaint Press or the author.

These are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.

All other material on this website is copyright David McLean 2018, 2019 unless noted below:

The Wolf In The Blood cover photo/this website home page photo credit: andamanec/shutterstock.com. Used under licence.

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The Nine Wives of Randal Rhin cover photo credit: Yurii Zymovin/shutterstock.com. Used under licence.

Fox Silver cover photo credit: Jean Landry/shutterstock.com. Used under licence.

The Soul of A Bull cover photo credit: Olga_i/shutterstock.com. Used under licence.

A Lion's Heart cover photo credit: Sergei Mironenko/shutterstock.com. Used under licence.

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