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I am currently working on a novel I started in 2011. I aim to have it finished by 2035.
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Symphony of the Wind (The Raincatcher's Ballad #1)
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2018
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The Fury Yet To Come (The Raincatcher's Ballad #0.5)
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2018
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Wrath of Storms (The Raincatcher's Ballad #2)
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2019
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Boldly Going Nowhere
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2015
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In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
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Book review: The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis
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The Guns Above is a secondary world military fantasy, kind of like Steampunk meets the Napoleonic wars. There’s no magic here, but it features airships battles, humour, and dialogue that bounces back and forth like a frantic game of table tennis.
It’s not a grimdark story by any means, but the books I thought of the most while reading this were Joe Abercrombie’s First Law novels. Like
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Spit and Song is a mesmerising fantasy buddy comedy set in a Jim Henson-esque wonderland, full of colourful (and all-too human) creatures. We follow trader Kali and musician Puk on their cross-world race for a mystical artifact, as they butt heads and ...more |
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Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing:
"This came highly recommended from an author who eats outlines for breakfast and I can see why he digs it so much; it's short, to the point, and incredibly useful. It's built as a long exercise to turn your idea into a successful outline as you read i"
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Along the Razor's Edge (The War Eternal #1):
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So I edited this book and it was... well, it was AMAZING. Far different than whatever I'd been expecting. The world is dark, and our protagonist and secondary characters are just as dark and brutal as the world they inhabit. The plot is relentles" Read more of this review » |
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The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1):
"I do love a good swashbuckle, and Dumas has really swashbuckled me into oblivion here. Combining action and romance, he paints a beautifully fictionalised picture of the king’s musketeers and the cardinal’s guards in the early 1600s.
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“The cube contained knowledge of every person born and every battle fought; every kiss enjoyed and every secret kept; every word that was ever uttered and every thought that was ever conceived, from The Beginning until The End of Time.
“Looks a bit shit,” said Sid.”
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
“Looks a bit shit,” said Sid.”
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
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“As much as he loved Old Earth artefacts, it was tremendously frustrating at times to know that it wasn’t possible to prove the original purpose of so many of them. Spotting an object he had puzzled over for the past two years, he stopped at its shelf, picked up the crumpled piece of plastic, and unfolded it until it had the approximate shape of a woman. She could be inflated by blowing air into an attached valve. Although he did have his suspicions as to what she was for (and he blushed even thinking about it—he described her as a ‘portable statue of a surprised female’ to potential customers), he still yearned to know whether he was right or not.”
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
“He felt like a dog that was about to be told that, yes, he was a good boy, but his balls had to come off anyway.”
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
“Old Earth rotated slowly and majestically on its axis, reassuringly unperturbed by recent events.”
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
― In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
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