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Teissian Races Glossary

Wow, long time no post!

I’ve been asked to put a rundown of all the Office Alien races in one place. I understand how people can get confused, especially since there’s only a letter or two difference between some of them. So let’s get started!

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Big ravenous bugs that just run around eating and killing everything in their path. Basically the bugs from Starship Troopers:

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They breed quickly and in huge numbers, and in the larval stage they have a knack for stowing away on spaceships and spr...

Office Aliens New Covers

Now that Krol’s Goddess is out, I have updated the Office Aliens covers with the new ones from the designer! It might take a few hours for the changes to go live so I won’t link them, but here they are below!

I like that now the series all obviously belong together. This was the concept I had in mind all along. I hope you like them. Check out the little bit of scales above the collars.

Krol’s Goddess is Live!

I uploaded it last night and it went live overnight, it’s available here!

This was an interesting one for me. I’ve mentioned it here and there before, but I originally started KG before The Security Guy and had to abandon it. That was back when I was still working, and I just couldn’t make it work. Now I have more energy for writing, I was able to get it together. For reference, I stopped while Krol and Naomi were still in the cave, about a third of the way in.

I expected it to be maybe 60k w...

Krol’s Goddess Cover

Writing is progressing fairly quickly, so I think the book should be out at the end of the month, or maybe early August!

This is a cover I did myself. I have hired a new designer and set him on the Office Aliens covers. I had a meeting with him, during which I found the cover art for this, which had been holding me up before. So I thought, since I know what I want and I know how to do it, and I have the art, it would be stupid to pay someone. I’m happier with my own covers for Ruth & Gron any...

Krol’s Goddess Prologue

With The Security Guy out, it’s time to start my next book, Krol’s Goddess! I started this before TSG and abandoned it then. Now I’m not working anymore, I hope I’ll be able to finish it. I’ve read over the chapters I have and it’s not as bad as I remembered…

Anyway, to kick off the excerpts etc (which will be posted on Mondays on my facebook) here is the first chapter, technically a prologue:

 

Krol woke when something shook his arm. He startled, blinking in the dark. What was his brother do...

The Summer of Alien Romance

First off, let me thank everyone who has bought, shared, read, reviewed, enjoyed (etc.) The Security Guy. The buzz around it has been great, and literally hundreds of people have been introduced to the series after news that The New Guy is free until the 31st was shared around. So thank you again.

But mine is not the only book out! For some reason only the stars understand, it feels like everyone is releasing a new, long-awaited book at the same time! So I thought I would list them all in one...

The Security Guy is live!

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Office Aliens Book 3, The Security Guy, Anna and Khy’s story, is live!

Here it is on Amazon.

This is the first book I’m publishing as a full-time writer!

I’ve been writing it for months! At least six months if not longer. It’s my longest book yet at 111,153 words, which is almost 400 pages of a printed book. I sure hope I don’t break that record any time soon, phew.

I loved Anna and Khy. They took me on such a journey. They progressed so much as characters from the start of their book to the...

Cover Woes

Guys, I’ve chucked my designer. He was just taking too long and making excuses, missing deadlines… So that didn’t work. This is a phenomemon I like to call “I ask for help, and end up doing it myself”. Happens all the time.

And I’m not going to look for a new designer any time soon. It’s exhausting starting from scratch trying to teach somebody what works and doesn’t work and why. You might get some cute, delightful covers out of it, but they don’t match your book. One of his suggestions was...

The Security Guy Chapter 1

I promised excerpts, so let’s get the ball rolling with Chapter 1 of my upcoming book, The Security Guy! This is Book 3 in the Office Aliens series, about a Volon (not Volin like Zir) male called Khy and a woman named Anna. Hope you enjoy it, there are more details under the ‘Coming Up Next’ tab at the top of the page. There is a less-than-1000-words prologue that comes before this chapter, but that would be boring to post here.

Chapter 1

Anna felt like she’d been dragged from a tar pit. She...

Interview with Tim Clare

On Wednesday, author Tim Clare kindly interviewed me for his podcast Death Of a Thousand Cuts. I admit, Tim is a personal friend of mine in real life, but he is also the published author of The Honours, as well as a long time stand-up comedian and stage performer. He has ten years worth of experience as a freelance manuscript consultant so he knows what he’s talking about. I also find him funny and charming, which is a plus.

Death of a Thousand Cuts is now in its second season and has been li...