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 …
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Belay that!
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 …
Short Crust
Or maybe the thin end of the wedge! Hello fellow adventurers, and thank you for your time – which I intend to save with today’s short epistle. I don’t think The Ares Gambit will be coming out via a publisher. I queried them, but it has been 9 weeks and I’ve sent a follow-up email …
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 …
Something Old, Something New.
A new project has started, but it’s not quite my usual subject of sci-fi. It’s a crime-thriller of sorts, calling upon my experience of Government Executive Agencies, which is a hark back to my writing origins of hard men with stern faces (not angels or vampires with dirty faces!) – and I remembered that back …
Double Up
Twice in one day! Aren’t we all lucky? Just an update after speaking to a couple of the Dauntless Crew (my long suffering and supportive backing group) and thought it was fair to update you all on a couple of things. The first is, I’ve never really been comfortable with the title “Rebellion of Mars” …
Still here!
I apologise profusely to everyone, I haven’t posted anything in a few days – I got a couple of posts up, but they weren’t great, so I binned them. Quickly then, my Dear Readers and Good Followers, the time of March, the Ancient Roman Feast days of Martius, have stolen upon us, although I think …
Fin.
No, this is not a Blog about seafood cuisine – I’m trying to be all literary and artistic, don’t-ya-know. Children of the Glyph is finished and it’s mostly the way I want it, 60k words, which is roughly a couple of hours’ worth of reading and counts as a novel/book, so I have more than …
Opening Shots
The Beginning is the most important part of the Work. Plato, The Republic. I didn’t like the opener to Covenant, so I binned the post and decided to talk about the space-time continuum for two days. I can imagine this may have been enlightening but also quite boring for those not planning a star-spanning epic, …
A Child of the Glyph
You’re like Bernard Cornwell…in Power Armour RJ A clever friend suggested teasing something form one of my projects. So here it is, Dear Reader and Good Follower, the first chapter from Children of the Glyph. You’re nuts, RJ, but you’re right. Feedback is welcome. Noctus Irae March 49 AD/Martius 802 AUC (Julian). The Lands of …
Mightier Is The Pen 