Category Archives: Promoting Friend’s Books

Having offered to do a bookplate for Tansy, I had to offer to do a book plate for Trent.

Death most Definite’  is the first of Trent Jamieson’s three books to be published by Orbit in the Death Works series.  Like Tansy’s series, I feel particularly proud of book one because we critiqued the manuscript at the last ROR. Meanwhile, Trent’s editor was taking it to an acquisitions meeting to see if Orbit would buy it. Everytime Trent’s mobile rang we thought it might be his editor reporting in. So you can imagine how exciting that was.

Trent’s series is also urban fantasy but very different from Tansy’s. Set in a Brisbane and south East Queensland, much like the one we know, only Death is a business and, what with corporate take overs and mergers, it can be dangerous. Steve is just a lowly employee, whose job it is to help the recently departed through to the after life, when he gets involved in a take over.

I have to admire the way Trent handles drama, death and danger with his trademark certain dry  humour. Seems like everyone is writing DUF ( Dark Urban Fantasy). It’s accessible. It’s fun.

I can recommend both Trent and Tansy’s books. What have you read in this genre recently that you’d recommend?