More tales from the dusk-haunted dark. Ruth Cassidy is our secondary POV deuteragonist. She wore a couple of different names before I settled on what she now goes by, and it was more by accident than design she was given something biblical. After all, Ruth is generally regarded as a heroine, and the etymology of …
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First, Knight
As we progress towards the launch of The Covenant, we continue with a few spotlights. Here’s a snippet of what’s in store and introduces our primary deuteragonist, Robert Knight: +++ Thursday 10 December, 1808 Hrs Zulu, Afghanistan. When the bomb went off, crimson gore spattered the windscreen and the driver’s window in a thick slap. …
Deuteragony
Deuteragonist: deu·ter·ag·on·istnoun: the person second in importanceto the protagonist in a drama. Oxford Language Dictionary The Covenant is a bit special for me, since it features the two halves of the same coin: the first POV and character of the protagonist (Robert Knight), is joined by what essentially is a second protagonist who is supposedly …
Dusk Before Dawn
“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” Victor Hugo So what does Covenant have that others don’t? If you’ve read my previous post, you’ll understand what I aspire to with this novel, standing at circa 100,000 words – a foray into a parallel, mostly hidden society of immortal bloodsuckers who co-habit …
Schrodinger’s Book
It exists, but also not quite. Andy McNab meets Abraham Van Helsing in this (soon to be) Christmas Cracker. It should perhaps be considered like Die Hard: an action film set at Christmas, but I don’t know if that makes it a Christmas film?! I’ve been slaving away on this for a while now, and …
Moving Forward
Well, New Year is over and it’s back to the boulder, although I’m having trouble deciding which boulder to push. I’ve got a lot of works in first/second draft that could use a clean up and need to get published, but I’m having a hard time deciding which. This is, unfortunately, a common problem of …
Getting Das Boot
Firstly, we’ve had a couple of new subscribers. Hello fellow adventurers! Now, to the meat of this post. I’m no film critic, nor script genie, but I am a storyteller, and I recently watched The Making of Das Boot (the movie one, as there was a TV program as well). I was astounded they actually …
Building Character
For some reason, lately I’ve been watching a lot of Sherlock Holmes films, the ones starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. This stirred me to do a little research, as I’d bumped into these wartime renditions of the Great Detective before, but now, with my author head well and truly on, I was motivated to …
Fine Adjustments
Firstly, thank you to everyone who has purchased my books over the past week, I appreciate it a great deal and I hope you enjoy them. As seems to always be the case, there’s a formatting error in there, which I corrected immediately upon discovery. Kindle E-books should be updated by clearing the download from …
Second Wave
I wholeheartedly apologise for this slew of updates, I don’t usually bother folks so much, but it is release day, so… The hardcover/case laminate version of War Mages: Sharpshooter is now live to acquire on Amazon. You can find it Here! (It will obviously update to your country’s prefs. Just the softback to go….
Mightier Is The Pen 