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February 22, 2023
Update on World Belt Update
Hello friends and the occasional relative! Quick update on my recent World Belt update. I totally based my timetable on the mental conviction that the book will be 31 chapters long. Wrong, it will be 33 chapters long. What I’m saying there, is I wrote this great, really detailed plan for each chapter of the …
January 31, 2023
World Belt Update
Hello friends and the occasional relative! (yes, I may use this as a tag line from now on). I have been asked to give you all an update on my progress in the wonderful, if grim, World Belt. The Slaves and The Djinn (a slightly more upbeat title than The Killer and The Dead I …
January 18, 2023
SPFBO Cohort Vague Review #5
Yes, I’m still doing this. 24 to go, bitches. Then I’ll read my own book last, and declare, without any hint of bias, that it was clearly the best. You know, because. Well that took a long time. No knock on the quality of the book, I’ve just withered as a reader, and now find …
January 10, 2023
A Second Rant About Writing and AI
Hello my friends and occasional relative. I submit a new rant, which, upon reflection, I possibly should have written in meter. But I didn’t, because how easy would it be to train an AI tool to do that? Ahem. Tap tap tap. In my last outing I went straight to the end of the road, …
January 2, 2023
A Typically Ill-informed Rant about AI and Writing
This is much longer than my usual entries. My apologies: I got the bit between my teeth and went galloping off hither and yon. A few months ago, I read an article talking about the use of AI in art, and it made me wonder about a future when AI would start to invade writing’s …
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September 10, 2022
Reading my SPFBO Cohort #3 & #4
Two more interesting books in my anonymous SPFBO 8 read every page review series. #3 This struck me as a book I would have wanted to write when I was in my teens, except in my teens I would have been utterly incapable of doing so! There are lots of references to epic past events …
June 26, 2022
Reading My SPFBO Cohort #2
A few posts back I mentioned that I was into supporting my cohort in SPFBO 8 – the books assigned to the Before We Go Blog. My admittedly strange way of doing this is to read all 29 books, and thus either gain those books kindle page reads, or buy the ebook version. Not a …
June 22, 2022
A Promise Fulfilled – TKATD Worldwide ebook Sale!
So I clearly commentator cursed myself, as no sooner had I promised I would put my ebook on sale in all amazon markets outside of the UK and USA after my book was eliminated from the 8th SPFBO, than my book was eliminated! ‘Tis the nature of the beast, drat it. My very best wishes …
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June 11, 2022
The Killer & The Dead On Sale
Hi folks! In the UK and USA my latest novel, The Killer and The Dead, is now on sale, and will be until the 18th of June. Please consder buying the ebook for 99 of your cents or pennies in those countries. The good people at Fantasy Book Critic considered TKATD to be one of …
May 24, 2022
SPFBO 8
It is happening! Find the fun community on Facebook here! My plan is to read all of the books drawn into my group of 30 before the axe starts to fall. Ok, before the end of phase one. I’ve read one so far. I liked it, but it was somewhat tonally uneven. There were some …
