Fiona McIntosh - Author

Just in case you’re struggling for the perfect, easy to find gift, how about a copy of The Lavender Keeper and The French Promise tied up with purple ribbon and a sprig of fresh Lavender? The books are currently available in all department stores and good book stores. And if you want, I’ll send a…

Wow, I can’t keep up with all of you amazing writers around Australia. I haven’t even hosted the April 2013 class and September’s class is full and I have opened up the April 2014 class to cope with the enquiries. Thank you to everyone who has shown such interest. Registrations are open and I will…

The French Promise is the sequel to The Lavender Keeper and will be released next month but here’s a sneak peek. I shall also be on national tour and will publish details of where and when as soon as the dates and venues are locked down. Soon! Fabulous cover, thank you Penguin and there’s some…

Isn’t it fun and colourful?

My thanks to HarperVoyager in Australia for this fantastic new release of an old favourite. The Quickening is the trilogy that gave me my credentials as a fantasy novelist and is certainly the series that set up my books around the world and in different languages. It’s hard to credit that Myrren’s Gift – volume…

I have just received my first copies of The Scrivener’s Tale which is about will be released at the end of October. This is my first standalone adult fantasy after four epic trilogies for adults in this genre. Very exciting! Imagine one entire story in a lovely single volume….no more waiting from one year to…

This was Bryce Courtenay’s Final Masterclass in Canberra and I was privileged to be given time with the participants to ‘fuel the frenzy’ – I pushed them but there was fantastic talent swirling and I simply helped to unleash it. A firecracker of a teacher as well as thorough and precise and helpful. We loved…

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My new standalone fantasy is now but a couple of months away from release and I realised that there was research, travels and interesting sparks of inspiration behind the story and so I have started blogging about it to give readers some of the stories behind the story. None of it is important but it’s…

Here it is, first glimpse at the cover for The Scrivener’s Tale and hasn’t the Voyager team done an awesome job. I love it! The novel will be released in November and this is the first time I’ve had a standalone adult fantasy so it’s all very exciting and readers get one epic story in…