Let’s try this again, shall we?

A couple of weeks ago, just as we launched a big outreach campaign, our website was hacked. Patrick took the opportunity to re-design and overhaul the site — and did a heck of a job, I think — and now here we are, trying again. With any luck, we won’t get hacked this time.

So: Hello and welcome. Thanks for checking out Cold Iron Badge. If this is your first visit, you should know that the page you see above is #107 in an ongoing story. You can read from the beginning by clicking on the ‘Archive’ tab above, scrolling down to Page #001 and clicking on it.

If you’d like to know a little more about what this story is about before you read further, you can check out the ‘About’ tab. And here, just for new readers, is a little bit of a teaser:

This is a fairy tale.

But nobody lives happily ever after.

Cold Iron Badge is a police procedural… about cops whose beat includes Elfland. It’s about a world just like our own – except that the gates to Fairyland have opened, and the Sidhe have returned. It’s the story of the officers of the Borderland Guard, the men and women who patrol the border between our world and Faerie, and the price they pay when their lives intersect with a real fairy tale – with all the traditional blood, madness and wild magic…