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My Life Untold: A Review

I was given an ebook copy of this story by the author, S. S. Gee Buro, in return for my review. The books started off a little slow, but definitely wasn’t boring, recounting the early years of the main character, Magda’s, life. Within a few chapters it had set up relationships and characters that had […]

Taming Virtual Pets

As is pretty obvious by now, I’ve not been doing much writing so far this year. I just seem to have hit an emotional brickwall when it comes to telling more stories. Instead I’ve been spending a lot of time in Entropia, playing around with their newest feature, pet taming. They introduced the first pet […]

Memes of Loss and Devotion: A Review

This ebook was given to me by the author, Darren White, in return for my review. Inside is a collection of short stories and I must admit I really didn’t like the first one. It was very slow going and full of purple prose. I put the book down only a few percent in and […]

Sneak Peak: The Unexpected Coincidence

I’ve been working on a bunch of different things lately, trying to get back into the zone of writing and I thought I’d share the first chapter of the 2nd novella in the Mycroft Holmes Adventures series. Mycroft took another sip of his tea from the delicate china cup Mrs Wintern had provided. It would […]

Memoirs of a Geisha: A Review

I watched the film of this some time ago not realising it was a book and therefore accidentally breaking my don’t watch before reading rule. But I’ve finally read the book and having done so I’m pleased I watched the film first. The beginning of the book gives a very rich and more understandable history […]

Finding Inspiration

Life often has a way of making things feel dull, routine and just downright unfun. Even when doing the thing you love for a job sometimes it feels like a chore. The constant daily grins of meeting word counts, fixing errors and finding a way to market the books already published can be wearing despite […]

The Kingsmen: A review

The trailer for this film made it look like it was going to be very funny so I went with my usual group of friends to see it. The film started off in the manner I expected, at least until someone was chopped in half. Then it went back to the silly gentleman spy movie […]

The Contaminants: A Review

This book was given to me by the author, Devin K. Smyth, in return for my review of it. The cover of this book is very simple and works with the story which initially pulled me into reading something I would normally be a little wary of. It’s in first person present tense which is […]

Tough Start to the Year

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve blogged very little so far this year. I’ve found myself rather overwhelmed. At the start of the year one of the most special members of my family passed away, my Grandma. She was almost 80, had diabetes and a few other health issues so in general terms she did quite […]

The Wonderful World of Print

Recently both Sherdan’s Prophecy and Sherdan’s Legacy were moved over to the 2nd edition, complete with the shiny new covers. I’ve also recently published Sherdan’s Country, the third book in the series, and that has a matching cover to the new editions. While I try to get my books in print fairly soon after the […]