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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Would you like to Know More?
Everyone fights! No-one quits! – Captain Juan “Jonny” Rico – Starship Troopers. I’ve been working hard on The Ares Gambit, and I think today it’s ready for test reading and proofing, so will be going to Amazon first for Kindle mastication, then my tried and trusted gang to tell me how crud it is. I …
Mightier Is The Pen 