The festive season is usually reserved for the pursuit of cheer and happiness with good friends and family, but sometimes, when they drive you mad, you just want to escape into a different world. Well, I have several different flavours of escapism for you. Something warm with a dash of sharp: My first middle-grade book, …
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Doing It Live
Just a quick update folks, the Ares Gambit is finally online, live and tidy for your perusal and purchase in E-book, Paperback or new Hardcover! 😀 If you just want to take a peek, go ahead and feel free to take a sample and decide later 🙂 Everything is fixed, sorted and tidy for your …
Up Down Under
It’s interesting to watch what happens after I launch a book, because when you sell a couple of copies, it’s very reassuring – but it’s also sometimes surprising. I’ve shipped three (Edit: I just checked – four!) copies of the e-book, (not bad) and whilst two of these have been Domestic purchases (Great Britain) one …
Going Live (Again)
Hello fellow adventurers! Just a note to let you know that the work on The Ares Gambit has now been completed, and it has been a very long time in coming! Everyone in my acknowledgements deserves a big hand for their part in it. Thank you of course to my family for supporting me on …
Cover Me (Part 3)
This is the proposed cover for my Military Sci-fi novel (some would call “Epic” since it’s over 110,000 words) The Ares Gambit. What do you all think? Ken, over at Creative Covers is the wizard behind this, and I have some ideas for the back cover to tie everything in, but any opinions are welcome! …
Mindworm
I’ve been thinking about how I’ve grown as a writer, and not just that, but as a reader, or viewer of films (after all films are just a book with pictures – I’ve just graduated from Spot Has a Ball, but I digress). It has really affected how I perceive storytelling, and to a degree …
Publeashing
Not some kind of small dog that drinks beer – although I am aware of one that did, along with a sheep of all things, which liked nothing more than to pass out after a pint. But I digress. Publeashing – an ArronismTM, which means “chained up on hold waiting to be sent to somebody …
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 …
Mightier Is The Pen 