With the launch of the Space X Dragon Crew mission, I had to smile. One of the mission launches previously testing the rocket was from a site called APEX One, if I recall correctly. Now, the American Pioneer EXpeditionary (APEX) Corporation was a fictional company in my novel Children of The Glyph, providing Government/Commercial uplift …
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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 …
Going Live
Children of The Glyph, will (barring all incidents), be going live in 72 hours on Amazon in both paperback and e-book for Kindle. It will also be going live on Draft 2 Digital on Friday 08th May 2020 (VE day) on the following platforms: Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, Tolino, Scribd, 24 Symbols, Kobo Plus …
Touching Distance
Been a hard week at the keyboard on Children of The Glyph, not as hard as the guys out there slaving to keep the world going. Good work and good luck to those people, putting me to shame. Anyway, the days have been full – had to cut 13,000 words in the re-structure, but managed …
Return of the Hack
Well, not quite. The Children of the Glyph Manuscript has been returned with some developmental guidance. It’s good news. I need to tighten up a few things, but the benchmark is a lot higher now than it was this time last year. I just have to nail down structure a bit more and it’s DONE. …
First bite is with the Eye
Just a snippet today. Editorial Report is due out on friday and this time I will have to forego any extension. Needs must and I need, and must, press on with this. I can do it. #DeathtotheSong
Tag it!
Nowadays you need a tagline. I was pondering the so-called high concept pitches for Children of the Glyph. This is complicated (maybe – more on that in a minute) by the release of the Netflix/Amazon show (I don’t have either) called The Mandalorian. Jetpacks and Machineguns. Now, that isn’t original. The Mandalorian isn’t either – …
Block of Writing
The Manuscript has arrived. All 330 pages. *Heavy breathing intensifies* Time to go to work.
In Brief
Just something fast and dirty from me today folks. Children of the Glyph, my sci-fi horror story about psychos with jetpacks is entering final stages – I can feel it like one of those pop-puzzles or like LEGO, it’s nearly the right shape and just one more push and…snap! It’s in! It fits! I’m both …
Mightier Is The Pen 