I know, I know, I disappeared for a little while. I’m sorry to say that the end of 2025 has been a rough one. I don’t like to discuss my personal life, so all I will say is that a break was needed for private reasons, and I’m sorry to those looking forward to updates towards the end of 2025. 2026 remains a year of new things, a refreshed perspective on upcoming releases and fresh stories for readers, new and constant. In busyness, there is creativity; in creativity, there is meaning.
“Life’s only meaning is the living of it. It’s in motion, in change. Staying still is simply a slow way to die.”
Dr Rick Carter
I’ll be back next week with a fuller update on upcoming projects, but just so you have a glimpse, coming up over the next couple of months will be:
- A new schedule of blog posts covering all sorts of topics relevant to the worlds of Heroes & Demons, The New Knights and the Rest of the Rainbow (check back next Friday 16th January, 2026 for more)
- The unfortunately delayed, but much improved launch of brand new Young Adult supernatural short-story series, ‘Til the End of the World (due by the end of January)
- Paperback releases for the remaining back catalogue of Rick Rawes novels, Avalon, Avalon: Faerie Tales, and Proud Marys within the first few months of the year
- And coming towards the summer, the highly anticipated fourth novel in the Heroes & Demons series, Sinners & Saints
That’s it, I promised it would be quick this time. I’ll leave you with this cliché: life is short. Inexplicably, incredibly. And for us temporal beings, it is on the rails – time will move on with or without our consent. Don’t wait for anything, don’t say ‘I will tomorrow’ if today is just as good. You do not have to change the world with every action, but an action, however small, one that you can do, means the world.
Today I wrote a chapter. And this. That will do.
Rick Rawes
January 10th, 2026
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Rick Rawes 
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