With the publication of "Taking The King's Shilling II: Getting Edith" at the end of January 2025, the Ro and Angel Trent series now has six books. Starting with 'Ro Pushed Back' and continuing to the 'King's Shilling' books, the relationship between these women can be tracked through a series of adventures that strengthens their bond and commitment.
Throughout the series we see new strengths and abilities develop and grow. Similarly, other characters in the series define themselves more and more as shocking secrets from the past lead to incredible possibilities for the future.
Jump into the series with any book, each can be read as in independent novel, but you will want to go back to the beginning and discover where it all began for Ro and Angel.
Taking The King's Shilling II: Getting Edith continues the narrative from the previous book. It also reveals more about the most unlikely villain, Edith Finlay.
She's just like your Granny, if your Granny was a psychopathic killer that's hell bent on 'Tidying Up' by eliminating all links to the organization that she used to helm.
She's funny, she's deadly and she doesn't give a damn.
I published "Timeliness" in November 2021 - I was poor, not just on a limited income but practically speaking on no income. We were locked down in the Philippines, our shop was closed because of the pandemic and I had no resources to get someone to design a cover.
I also didn't really understand how important cover design is. I finished the other 2 books in the series within 3 months and drew on the same inspiration for the original covers, the use of wave diagrams and shadowy figures, but looking back I realized that they gave no indication of the books contents or even genre really.
So I set about redesigning the covers from scratch.
The new covers hint at the idea of something, or someone, being in two different places at the same time, or at least moving from one place to another. They also feature a plot line from the book. The pig, in fact, opens "Timeliness" in the experimental phase of Space and Time manipulation, and each new cover similarly uses a plot device from each novella.
I really like how they turned out.
These are the original covers
I haven't given upon this project yet. And this is not going to be the final cover whenever ( or if ever) it gets ready to publish
I was really having fun with this book but at times it started to feel like it was edging to becoming offensive, so I decided to take a break from it. It turned into quite a long break and I am very close to getting back to it.
There are quite a lot of cultural differences between living in the West and in the Philippines, I want the project to be useful but funny...
So, it's back on the "slow burner".