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Hi everyone,

I have a surprise for you.

After keeping this one close to my chest, I’m thrilled to announce that Line of the Ball — Book One of the Windward Cup Dynasty — is out now.

This is my first full dive into high-heat M/M sports romance, and I turned the heat up significantly. Expect steamier scenes, intense chemistry, and that slow-burn-to-inferno energy. It’s still classic Elias Keane storytelling — queer love, found family, and characters with real weight — but this time the spice is...

Happy 4th of July everyone,

There is a particular kind of quiet before a book goes out into the world. The manuscript is finished. The files are locked. All that is left is the waiting, and the hoping, and the small daily work of making sure the right readers find out a new door has opened.

That door opens on July 29, when The Hollow City, Book Three of the Hollow Clock Saga, finally reaches shelves.

If you have been with this series since The Hollow Clock first pulled back its curtain, thank...

I knew how this book ended before I knew how it began.

That happens sometimes. A character walks into your head fully formed and walking toward something, and you spend three books finding out what. Callum Vane arrived that way. I met him in The Hollow Clock with the lamps already burning and his hands already dirty, and I think some part of me knew even then where the road went. I just didn't want to look at it too closely.

Now I have. The Hollow City is out on July 29, and it is the end of...

There's a particular feeling that comes with stepping back into a place you built. Not quite the way a reader returns to a world, though I hope you feel some of that too. More the way a person returns to a house they once lived in. You know the floorboards. You know which doors stick. You know what's buried in the garden.

That's what writing The Hollow City felt like. A return.

If you've been with me since The Hollow Clock, you remember how Hollowmere works. The lamps have to be fed. Someone...

There's a moment in every Hollow Clock story where the soul-lights flicker on across Hollowmere — that first pale glow before the color blooms into something alive. I've always thought of it as the moment the city exhales. Things are about to begin.

That's the feeling I wanted to name the First Light Club after. Because this is about new beginnings, too.

Why I did this

I've been writing as Elias Keane for a little while now, and something I've noticed — and honestly been moved by — is how many...

The Origin of Everything

A few weeks ago, when I told you I had begun The Hollow City, I asked you a question I had never asked anyone before. Hollowmere runs on bound souls. Coal existed. Gas existed. So why would a city choose the dead over the easy fuel sitting right there? I said I had always known the answer and never told you, and I asked whether you wanted the story of it — a short, dark prequel about the choice that doomed everyone who came after.

You answered. More of you than I...

Finishing the Record

I have begun the third book. Its name is The Hollow City, and it is the end of Callum Vane's story.

I want to say that plainly, because I made a decision about this book that surprised me, and the decision is the whole reason it exists in the shape it does.

For a long time I thought the third book was a leaving story. After everything that happens in The Hollow Cathedral, the obvious next move is out, onto a ship, across the water, into the cities my characters have only...

The Distance Between Places

I was born in Midlands, England. I lived in New Zealand for eight years, then in Ontario for five, and I write now from near Portland, Oregon. They are not the same place. But the rooms are similar, places where the landscape teaches you to be quiet, where the weather has opinions and the mountains are old, where strangers will sit beside you without speaking and you will both feel less alone than when you arrived.

Bear Country, the third book in The Bear Hunt...

As we get nearer to the release of my new book The Hollow Cathedral I am running a Goodreads Giveaway promotion where 50 lucky readers will be able to win an electronic copy of the book.

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/439524-the-hollow-cathedral

The release date is 05-16-2026.

It is also available on Amazon for Pre-Order.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXQVWHVK

A Steampunk horror set in the City of Hollowmere where the clock may have stopped but the screams have not.

People ask me where the book came from, and the honest answer is one image I couldn't let go of for a long time before I knew what to do with it.

A body breathing in a quiet room. Nobody inside it.

Everything else came after. The cathedral on the hill with its astronomical instruments drifting slowly out of true. The Arch-Cogitant in his vestments, negotiating with men who already know too much. Ships returning to the harbour with questions nobody wants to answer. Two men at the centre of it...

Starting Friday April 16th, my latest book will be on promotion where the Kindle version will be free for a period of five days.

Grab a copy whilst you can.

In the meantime here is a taster of the book for you to enjoy.

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Happy reading

Cheers

Elias

Hi my fellow book enthusiasts.

I am very excited to announce that I have marked down my 1st book in the Rourke Correlation series to just 99c.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT1VM6H6

I am really looking forward to seeing what you all think. After you have read it it would be great if you could leave an Amazon Review for me

There is a small town in Virginia called Lexingfield. A river runs through it. A library sits on the corner of Main and Church. On Thursday evenings, the lights come on in a church hall and people carrying the worst thing a person can carry come together to try to keep going.

You will visit this town twice if you read both of the novels. The second visit will change what you thought you knew about the first.

Still Water is where you start. A county sheriff has been working a case for months —...

Still Water has now been published on Amazon as a Epub, Softcover and hardcover version.

When children start going missing it falls to the local sheriff to investigate their murders. Only now his daughter has gone missing and he does not know what to do. It's a race against time to solve the murders, stop a killer and help rebuild a community that has been devastated by the killings.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GL96H2X5