‘Hello, the Somme Public Baths – no running, shouting, or piddling in the shallow end…ah, Captain Darling…tomorrow at dawn. Oh, excellent! See you later then! Bye!’ – Captain Edmund Blackadder, receiving orders for the final attack, Blackadder Goes Forth, Ep 6: ‘Goodbyeee’ War Mages: Sharpshooter is as ready for deployment as I can make it. …
Category Archives: writing
The Big Push
Ok. So here we are. I have received the final covers from the Pixel Wizard Ken Dawson over at Creative Covers. Further, I have completed the revisions from Polly at Magic Pencil. I can honestly say, I have some of the best freelancer support going. As an aside, Polly is also a knitter, and has …
Black Library Open Subs (II)
This is my submission (Ferrymen) to the Warhammer 40,000 Black Library Open Subs window for 2023, which was rejected. I did say I would drop it here, (I don’t think I have done so before) but life has been very busy and troublesome. The Publishers requirements/Application criteria were, at best, nebulous. I read between the …
Black Library Open Subs (I)
The Dissection Begins The Black Library Open Submissions were strange. The way they handled it was a bit out of spec for what I expect from a normal publisher, and it left a lot of folks scratching their heads what the submission criteria actually was. Some of this is down to inexperience, the rest is …
128 Days Later
The keen-eyed amongst you will spot that I can’t count, and am going for the cheap laugh. That’s about the state of my humour at the moment, since I’m running on empty. I’ve queried 25 agents with War Mages: Sharpshooter, but not a single one is interested. One of them, who will remain nameless, promised …
Snapshot
Sharpshooter has come back from Magic Pencil, and I’m pleased to say there wasn’t much to do with it, thankfully, and only a few comments! 🙂 So, I’m grinding that, and Covenant at the same time, because you know; fun never stops. Well, that’s it Adventurers – hope you have a great day. 🙂
Scorch Dearth
Sounds like a Napalm Death album. I write with reference to my on-off, on-off love/hate affair with my Vampire Urban Thriller The Covenant. Last week I tore it to shreds, scrapping a 70,000-word bowl of utter dog water, down to something I could work with. I had just over 10,000 words left. Killing your darlings …
Cookie Crumbled (Part 2)
Success isn’t final, failure isn’t fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill. Right, let’s bake this biscuit. I’m going to refer to yesterday’s post a lot – don’t worry, I’m not going to dissect it, just bust it up a little to get the choc-chips out. 😊 One thing that struck …
Mightier Is The Pen 