Geoffrey Gudgion grew up with his nose in a book, often one featuring knights in armour. A turbulent career including the armed forces and business has now settled into full-time writing. Since the publication of Saxon’s Bane and Draca he has gravitated to the fantasy genre and is the author, as G.N. Gudgion, of the Rune Song trilogy. The first in the series, Hammer of Fate, will be published on 1 June 2023 by Second Sky, an imprint of Bookoutoure/Hachette. Geoff loves to create stories with complex, conflicted characters that a reader can bleed with, cry for, and perhaps fall in love with; stories with a strong historical slant but where women don’t have to be either beautiful damsels or witches. They live in worlds where you can smell the sweat and the sewers, as well as the roses. He lives in a leafy corner of England, where he’s a keen amateur equestrian and a very bad pianist. He spends much of his time crafting words in a shed, fifty yards and five hundred years from his house.