I’ve been looking for an opportunity to get into podcasting for a while, whether it be as a voice or a more technical role, like editing. There was a short-lived gaming podcast that, unfortunately, died a death of distance, as my two American co-hosts and I found it difficult to consistently get together on Skype to record. Well, a year on, and I’m at it again. Read more…
Blog
I very rarely blog for the sake of blogging, and, recently, I was asked why.
When I post to this site the topic is generally one of three things; a post about a particular subject (new book, angry statement on the stupidity of others, and so on), an article of sorts (usually tech or gaming) or a short piece of fiction that has been written for the fun of writing. It’s been a long time since I wrote a “what’s going in my life” type of post that didn’t involve some kind of project deadline angle. Read more…
Well, OK, it’s not completely done, but my first novel, The Returners, is written, edited, formatted, and on sale in all (some) good eBook retail outlets, as well as in print. I say “not completely” because there is still promotion and [potentially] an audiobook to record… though I have a suspicion that I will start recording the audio and be put off by my voice by the end of the first chapter. Read more…
What started out as an idea for a story has, very quickly, turned into a full on project. I had the idea for a story that I thought would be shorter than a novel, but too long for a short story. A novella, if you will. Read more…
I’m over the halfway mark of my second revision now, and I’m starting to find my poor memory is causing me problems. Namely, I regularly have to sift back through the novel to find what I called something, or where something is in relation to something else. I could have sat down and made lots of helpful, indexed notes that I could refer to. Instead, I made a map.
Today, I was talking to Mike Kalmbach (@mikekalmbach) on Twitter, and he asked me if I had anything up about my current work in progress – the novel I’ve been writing for some time now. I didn’t. Read more…
Very Brief Backstory
Way back when I was about 15 or 16 years old, and I first started reading Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, I wrote a piece of fan fiction set in this strange, hilarious world.
The Short Version
The follow up to my first self-published short story, The First Punch, is available through Amazon for Kindle. Once again, it is £0.70p. Buy it here!
The Longer Version
If you don’t know what these stories are, I recommend you click the above link for The First Punch, as that post has more detail about what I’m doing and, if you need it, what Kindle is. In short, Wrong Universe is a series of short stories, set out kind of like episodes in a TV series. I am writing as and when I find time, and releasing them in eBook form through Amazon for the lowest price I can set. The Lonely Station is story number two, and here’s a little bit about it. Read more…
If you were one of the 67.9% of the population that voted “No” to an alternative voting system, using the justification that you didn’t like the thought of “this party” or “that party” getting into power, you are a problem. Read more…
The Short Version
Some of my work is available through Amazon. It’s a short story, it’s £0.70 in electronic form. Go buy it!
The Longer Version
For some time, I have had a series of short stories sitting on my hard drive, that I was a little unsure what to do with. My original intention was to record them as a kind of episodic podcast affair. I even went to the trouble of working out my speaking average of words per minute and writing each “episode” to a word count that would, in theory, have equalled roughly 30 minutes of audio.
I never did that.
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