It’s a naval (not navel!) term meaning to stop or put something off. Once more I have decided to play the long game and have sent my MS for The Ares Gambit off to DAW Books, the Sci-fi/Fantasy arm of Penguin books USA. I thought long and hard about it, considered the wait time and …
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In A Flash
Just thought I’d pop up an excerpt from The Jovian Counter, (Book Two of the Nine Worlds series) since I’m working on it and need content for the blog. ;p Enjoy! Libertine jinked and dived, but the flak-load shells streaked out in front of her, slamming into rocks, obliterating the smaller ones entirely. The objective …
Up and Running
For over ten days, a lot of authors have been stuck in limbo by Amazon Kindle Publishing because a lot of e-books were seeking to profiteer from the COVID 19 with spurious or shoddy material. Everyone was caught in this backlog, including me, but my paperback, as you’ll know if you’ve been following, was published. …
The Next Steps
Congratulations to all of us! We’ve hit fifty subscribers! WordPress calls them followers, and I say ‘Good Followers’ but really we’re just travellers on the road, pilgrims heading for Canterbury, just sharing our tales to pass the time, the stories and laughter eating up the miles until it’s time for us to take our leave …
Veni, Vidi, Verisimilitude (Part Three)
“I know not what weapons World War III might be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Albert Einstein Or Railguns. I was tempted to use Douglas MacArthur here in deference to the fact my blog is about Pens Being Mightier, but Doug makes a good point about people who …
Mightier Is The Pen 