‘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. …
Tag Archives: editing
Write or Wrong
Just a quick update to keep this pot boiling – have now completed the final polish and now it’s just a quick sweep over the book to make sure everything is in order and packaged up for KDP. Release looks like it will be Saturday sometime, but Amazon do say that it may take up …
Boulder’s Edge
Peeking around the edge of the boulder now. The weekend draws near, and I just wanted to get a few quick posts out before the final launch of War Mages: Sharpshooter. Am currently buffing the last layer of polish and hoping it smooths everything out. It’s easy going, which is good, as that means there’s …
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 …
War Mages Monday (II)
Just to continue the trend, here’s another instalment of my upcoming novel War Mages: Sharpshooter. He cast his gaze out, over the lines of trenches stretching away into the distance, a giant zip, or maybe a scar, cut into the flesh of the Earth. Stretching all the way from Switzerland up to the French coast, …
War Mages Monday (I)
As promised, here’s a snippet of Sharpshooter. I may run a weekly release anywhere from 200-500 words depending on how it goes. Enough to be a quick read. Without further ado, here’s the first: Prologue: MONDAY, 11th AUGUST, 1919. 0303Hrs Alarm bells rang out across Antwerp’s fortified containment wall, spurring the Imperial German Army to …
Best Laid Plans
Sharpshooter has hit a stumbling block or three, which means my release date will be pushed back. I hoped to have it out this year, but it’s looking likely that it will go into 2024. Now this is annoying, but it is completely my own fault, not that of my Dauntless Crew, busy proofing and …
Ongoing Outgoing
With the end of Ferrymen, I thought I’d take a break here to just let everyone have a (brief!) update. Progress continues with Sharpshooter, my WWI Historical Fantasy, although I feel like it has overrun its publishing window. In a change from my normal procedure of edit-in-word, I’ve gone back to basics, printed the MS …
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. 🙂
Mightier Is The Pen 