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September 22, 2016
Paranormal Recs on Wattpad #FanFriday 23
Paranormal Recs on Wattpad
Like all publishing platforms, Wattpad has a high signal to noise ratio. We have a mixture of:
Excellent fiction - great plot, great characters, no huge grammar and spelling issues etc (occasionally perfect).Good fiction - great plot, great characters, needs a little work on the grammar and spelling etc.Could be great fiction - great plot, great characters, badly formatted, spelt and grammar checkedHas some good ideas, but needs lots of help fiction - has something th...
September 21, 2016
Introducing Max Statton #WriterlyWednesdays 43
Welcome to my blog for another Writerly Wednesday. I've just launched a new free novel on Wattpad called "Dead Before Dawn: The Vampire Curse", so today I thought I'd introduce you to my leading man, Max. I hope you like him.
Introducing Max StattonSo Max in an actor who has worked his way up to the edges of the A list. I know, another main character who is an actor, I seem to like grabbing them out of their life and then throwing them at things they can't possibly understand :). We writers ar...
September 20, 2016
New Novel "Dead Before Dawn: The Vampire Curse" Now FREE on Wattpad
My new vampire novel, Dead Before Dawn: The Vampire Curse is finally ready for serialisation.
Ch 1 is now AVAILABLE FREE on Wattpad:
Dead Before Dawn: The Vampire Curse
Chapter 1: Cat and Mouse
Max Statton is in Moscow for the premier of his new movie when a terrifying encounter turns his life on its head. Attacked by one of the city's resident vampires, Max is bitten and infected. Only a team of local vampire hunters prevent him being dragged into the underworld of the undead.
Fighting for h...
September 14, 2016
Kindred: The Embraced - Fandom Intro
Okay, well since I'm just about to post a new Kindred: The Embraced Fanfic, I thought I would do a fandom intro, for those who haven't seen it or don't remember it too well. It seems I'm all about vampires at the moment :)
Kindred: The Embraced - Fandom IntroKindred is a show about vampires that is loosely based on Vampire: The Masquerade by White Wolf. The vampires call themselves Kindred and to become a vampire a person is embraced, hence the name of the show.
A little background on the Kindr...
The Wonders of Crossover Fanfiction - #WriterlyWednesdays 42
It's Wednesday again. Where do the weeks go? Of course that means it's Writerly Wednesday where I talk about an aspect of writing. This week I have chosen something very close to my heart: Crossover fanfiction. I hope you enjoy my post.
The Wonders of Crossover FanfictionI suppose a good place to start is a definition. Not all of us come from a fanfiction background, so what is common place to some is a mystery to others.
Crossover: the blending or mixing of two fictional universes or the inser...
September 10, 2016
Some Piccies of Our Kitties
I have a new instagram account: tashaddrake - which is mostly so I can post piccies of our kitties. Ruby is easier to photograph because she likes to sit of lie down and become an immovable object, but I did get a couple of Amber too :).
Amber wanting her tummy rubbed.
Amber deigning to sit still long enough for me to take a snap :)
Ruby demanding chin scritches :)
Ruby sprawled on my old office chair.
Ruby snoring :)
Amber wanting her tummy rubbed.
Amber deigning to sit still long enough for me to take a snap :)
Ruby demanding chin scritches :)
Ruby sprawled on my old office chair.
Ruby snoring :)
September 9, 2016
Star Trek at 50 #FanFriday 22
Star Trek is 50 this week, so how could I not use it for Fan Friday? Such a wonderful show - let me tell you why I love it.
Star Trek at 50There is one thing that I have always loved about Star Trek above all else and that is it strives to show a universe where diversity and tolerance are what most of society aim for. In a time when there was racial strife, they put an African American woman on the bridge of the Enterprise, and they have always tackled issues head on.
Sometimes they've managed...
September 7, 2016
The Writing Process #WriterlyWednesday 41
Good day to everyone and welcome to my blog for another Writerly Wednesday. First of all I'd like to point everyone at the bottom of the post - as ever I am inviting guest posters. Anyone who would like to post anything about writing/books/comics is welcome, including cover artists etc. Now on to today's topic, I thought I would talk about the writing process, I hope you enjoy the post.
The Writing ProcessNow we all have different writing processes, some may be very similar to other peoples, b...
September 1, 2016
Really Having a Blast With the New Book #ThinkyThursdays 24
Really Having a Blast With the New Book
Welcome to Thinky Thursdays and there's only one thing consuming my brain this week, so I'm going to be self indulgent. I am having such fun with "Dead Before Dawn: The Vampire Curse".
Y'know how sometimes something is just the most fun and then we don't want to stop doing whatever it is we are doing. I feel like that with this novel.I actually thought the manuscript was almost done a week ago and was in the final edit stage. However, it's gained nearly 2...
August 31, 2016
Dead Before Dawn, Cover How To - #WriterlyWednesdays 40
Greetings and welcome to Writerly Wednesdays. Today I thought I'd show you all how I created my cover for Dead Before Dawn: The Vampire Curse. I wanted something effective, but simple. This is a romance, but it also has an element of horror that I wanted to bring out. Hence several of my choices.
Dead Before Dawn, Cover How To
I create all my own covers and if you look you will see that I keep improving and some of my old covers are not so good :). I am slowly replacing these as I go, like I di...
