Ian Green's Blog, page 3

Good news day

I’m now represented by the Mic Cheetham Agency . Excited doesn’t cover it- lots of cool news to come.

Art below was commisioned by me from Flygohr

At dawn, look to the East

Much is afoot. Global pandemic, global protests. Personal upheaval and professional changes. Lots of anouncements to come.

Reading: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien, Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes, Murderbot series by Martha Wells, Given by Nandi Taylor

Listening: Songs for PIerre Chavin by The Mountain Goats, Chris by Christine and the Queens, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning soundtrack by Grant Kirkhope

One step forward, etc

Well! My 6 months of hiking in the woods has been derailed utterly by the current global heatlh pandemic. Devastated, but healthy and home now and things could be a lot worse, and are worse for many others.

The first 110 miles before the lockdown were epic, high desert, snow, rain, hail, mountains, howling wind and endless climbs. It was wonderful. Bluejays & marmots, clifftop views for a hundred miles of desert.

For now, I am back. This means instead of a hiatus on the GAUNTLET project, I’ll be spending the summer pitching it around, maybe some final edits for the lastfew tweaks I want to make. I’m also going to try and jump in with two feet to the short fiction scene again as a palate cleanser, and am begining to mull over what the right follow up project to GAUNTLET might be.
Stay safe x

READING: You will be safe here by Damian Barr, The Bone Ships by RJ Barker, The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

AFK

Away from keyboard. Heading out in five days to the woods for ~ 2600 miles of hiking. Frodo and Sam did about 1755 miles from the Shire to Mount Doom, so it is a wee bit beyond that. Should take me out until end of August or so.

This means no updates for a while, but I have a short short story coming out next week as a final flourish for the season.

GAUNTLET is in fine form, tweaking and adding a few wee bits and bobs to try and polish it up. Currently looking into my options to take it forward from there. Fantasy juntas; UFO folklore; animist gods; wolf fights. A soldier searches for her daughter. A sorcerer seeks revenge. A cannibal hunts an immortal criminal.

Almost time to start thinking about what is next!