Just a couple of quick notes from me today to let you know that from 01 May 2025 to 08 May 2025 my vampire-slaying, gun-toting, close-protection book The Covenant will be 50% off in the Kindle Store. That’s not all: To commemorate Victory in Europe Day, my Middle-grade ‘The Knitted Knomes‘ about a bunch of …
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The Dawn Breaks
Second star to the right, and straight on ’til morning… J.M Barrie, Peter Pan. All of January, and much of February is now gone. Where have I been? The usual, under the weather with whatever bloody awful flu or virus can be had. It’s put me out and held me up, no mistake – but …
Comparisons
When developing and planning a book, it’s good practice to have an idea where it goes on your shelf, and more importantly, where you are aiming to put it in the market. That’s one thing, but your book has to be different. Further, it has to be yours in style and feel, and in how …
Ruthfullness
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 …
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 …
Blooming Marvellous
This is one of my peonies! Isn’t it lovely? They’ve mostly all come out this year, and seeing it makes me happy. I wish there were more bees about to visit it, but the weather has been awful. At least it helps everything grow! Anyway, on a related note, Covenant, my Line-of-Fire meets Underworld manuscript …
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 …
Mightier Is The Pen 