That said, there are usually some second-hand editions floating around on the used books market. Buying the Ninja Booksįinding the Ninja series nowadays is hit and miss – they’ve been out of print for years and even I don’t have many copies left. Sadly Simon & Schuster didn’t contract for a third book, so Ninja: The Battle was the last in the series. Finally, it finished the main storyline with Vargas (although not the storyline with Michael). Ninja: The Battle was longer than the first book and in it I had the chance to develop lots of interesting stuff that had only been hinted at in the prequel, like the history of Allandra and Ignis’ family and how they came to Rokkaku and the details about the secondary characters such as Christopher, Jennifer, Shiro, and Ichiro.
In the new printing, To Be A Ninja was renamed Ninja: The Beginning, and the sequel was named Ninja: The Battle. In 2007 the sequel was released, and Simon & Schuster also reprinted To Be A Ninja at the same time. To Be A Ninja also came out in French under the title Maitre Ninja, and in Spanish under the title Escuela de Ninjas. (It didn’t stop the funny looks, but at least I could explain it in one sentence.) The answer that I eventually started giving was ‘It’s about a brother and sister who escape from their father who’s a drug lord to train in a secret ninja school in a forest valley in Wales’. I finished it in 2003 and gave it to my agent, who sent it to Simon & Schuster UK, and finally in 2005 (after some major rewrites) To Be A Ninja was published.Įveryone would always ask me what the book was about, and I’d always have trouble explaining it without getting funny looks. The basic plot was ‘girl in ninja school’ and it was heavily influenced by the time I’d spent in the Cambridge dojo. In the third year of my degree I started a new novel, my fourth. I’d go on to practise ninjutsu during the length of my stay at Cambridge and for several years afterwards. I’d tried a few different martial arts in the past, but for some reason ninjutsu suited me in a way that the others hadn’t – not just the fighting style, but also the philosophy and mindset behind it. In my first year at Cambridge University, I signed up for a society affiliated with the Bujinkan Cambridge Dojo that taught a martial art called ninjutsu. Their name was the Ninja series, and I started writing them all the way back in 2002. Although the Alex Verus series is urban fantasy, the first books I had published were in the children’s genre.
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