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Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 23

Sherdan picked up the phone and tapped in Mark Jones’ number. He went through the same hassle of having to get approval from the first voice on the phone before he could get through to the Prime Minister himself. “Dr Harper! Have you phoned to surrender?” “Quite the opposite, to negotiate on the release of [...]

Foreclosed: A Review

This is a Christian mystery book about a woman called Mitzy who runs her own estate agents and gets involved in some crazy stuff when a house she wants to sell gets tangled up in Russian history. I’ve had this book on my tbr for ages and finally got around to it. I’m so glad [...]

Olympics

I know this could be considered a little late but I thought I’d give my opinion on the Olympics this year, considering that my country were the hosts too. First off there was that opening ceremony. This was the part most of our country was worried about. We could have done an awful job but [...]

The Artist: A Review

I’d never actually seen a black and white film before I saw this one and I have to say I was really rather impressed. As someone who appreciated dialogue the most in films I was a little nervous I’d find the almost two hours of this film absolutely dull and boring. Thankfully I didn’t. The [...]

Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 22

Sherdan set his alarm an hour earlier the following morning and asked for an update on the emergency cabinet meeting less than five minutes after opening his eyes. They’d adjourned the meeting very late in the night to continue the following morning. He ate breakfast while getting ready to leave and woke Anya to tell [...]

The Three Eyed Skull (GCPU 2): A Review

This is the second in a series of novellas about the GCPU (Global Crime Prevention Unit). I reviewed the first one here This was a really nice short read and great light entertainment. It followed on well from the previous book, continuing to build on the characters and bad guys. I didn’t see the plot [...]

How to have a successful book launch

With ebooks it’s harder to have a proper book launch. Amazon doesn’t let you put an ebook up for pre-orders unless you’re one of the big 6 publishers. The rest of us just have to pick a day and upload it and that becomes our published date. Then you have to wait for the Amazon [...]

Firefly + Serenity: A Review

I recently burned my way through this series and film. We’ll start with what I thought of the series and then what I thought of the film. Firefly: Normally the first episode of a series is the weakest and I struggle to feel like I want to watch the rest but that really wasn’t the [...]

Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 21

The moment Sherdan had left her, Anya stepped to the other side of the bed and activated her power. Her clothes dropped to the floor out of view of the door so at a glance they wouldn’t be noticed. She contemplated going into the control room after him but she realised that now was also [...]

The Plan: August 12

Last month This was in interesting month so I’ll do some bullet points. Hand wrote approx 8k of shattered Typed approx 27k including 11k of new project, Lady Winter Spent 15 hours working for Red Feather Spent approx 30 hours doing marketing and promotion Read for about 30 hours Sent 42 emails I had the [...]