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 …
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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 …
34 Million Miles
I’m not just a navel gazer – occasionally my attention turns outwards to the cosmos at large. This is a trait most science fiction authors should have perhaps, yet I’m such an amateur at it, I had to check three websites and make my own observations to establish exactly what I was looking at and …
Bringer of Jollity
No, afraid it isn’t a party – that’s the title of Holst’s Jupiter, from his famous ‘Planets’ suite. There will be rambling below – be warned! This is appropriate, because I have finally worked out what to do and happier now I have a bit of direction. I’ll be hammering out the burrs in my …
Proof’s In The Reading
So there it is. Twenty years later and it’s actually a book of sorts. The Ares Gambit started life as something totally different, but this, I think was the way it was always meant to be. Perhaps a diamond in the rough, polished and cut, into this. It’s not fully finished yet, just like everything …
Two-For-One!
One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a funeral, And four for a birth… John Brand’s Observations on Popular Antiquities in Lincolnshire (Circa 1780, the first recorded iteration of the ‘Magpies’ nursery rhyme). Another day, another blog post and this one is a (fast) doozy. Finished the first draft of Only Bloody Money and it has …
Trendy
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 …
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 …
A Mars A Day…
…Helps you Work, Rest and Slay. No, not the chocolate bar then, but an image like this cropped up on my laptop background a couple of days ago and it’s weird, I took one look at it and knew where I was – kind of. Looking at Mars through a telescope or camera when there’s …
Mightier Is The Pen 