Firstly, we’ve had a couple of new subscribers. Hello fellow adventurers! Now, to the meat of this post. I’m no film critic, nor script genie, but I am a storyteller, and I recently watched The Making of Das Boot (the movie one, as there was a TV program as well). I was astounded they actually …
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Season’s Treatings
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, …
War Mages Monday (III)
I’m wondering if I should title these with the chapters the extracts come from. What do you think? Let me know in the comments! Anyway, here’s this week’s preview of the hellscape that is Sharpshooter. When the team left the arming room, they found the submarine had been lowered into position. Walking down the quay, …
Battle Dressed
Change of pace for today/this week. After firing Warhammer at everyone, it’s time to actually promote my own stuff: This is the final test version cover of my upcoming novel War mages: Sharpshooter. Big thanks to my cover designer Ken. Seriously, this guy is making some real moves, so it’s amazing he even has time …
Ferrymen (Chapter V)
Marwen was miserable. She stank, covered in grey-green mud. The berries she’d seen the birds nibbling were foul and the wad of roots she chewed were bitter cud. She wandered down the path, sharp stones vexing her bare feet, her dainty slippers long gone to the boggy riverbank, but she’d kept the long stick which …
Ping! Done!
It’s a microwave baked novel. Storm Trooper, a novel about a WW1 soldier who is also a magic user has been completed to first draft at 61k. I’ll be taking a break from it for a while, and will be going back at it in about a fortnight, to re-trim and polish it to what …
Remember
Will you think of them Today? Where the poppies bloom and sway, And the young ones went to play, In muddy fields night and day, In their uniforms brown and grey, Where in filth and mud they lay? Will you do your duty and repay, Those for whom danger was the way, When even names …
Thought for the Day
The heart of a Warrior fulfils the exploration of Conflict, the Soul of a Poet allows the expression of Love. Between these volatile masters, hovers the twilight of Pain and Pleasure, wherein lies the Human Condition, providing Inspiration for the greatest Tales, the most foul of Terrors and the most shocking Truths. That’s fairly deep …
Word Salad Mk 2
This blog has had a new influx of followers! To them I say hello, to the old hands round here, I say thankyou and hope you all get along on my journey to becoming an absolute hack! 😀 I’ve tightened up my Blurb. I really like it, but I’m not sure I’ve written the book …
Veni, Vidi, Verisimilitude…? (Part One)
I do not think that any Realism is beautiful H.P. Lovecraft What can I say, the man is right. What follows dear reader is a quasi-realistic, over-simplified page of about 1,000 words which I built for my book, Rebellion of Mars. I’m still deliberating on what I should call the series, as it began in …
Mightier Is The Pen 