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Going Underground is Going Free 6th/7th June
Going Underground - going FREE Wed 6th & Thurs 7th June 2012
Going Underground is going FREE Wed 6th& Thurs 7th (Amazon link)
Going Underground is a near-future dystopian short story set vaguely in the same world as my novel, The Tube Riders. The central character is Rob, a young man who lives in the desolate outskirts of London, and who has a dream – to find out if the Underground trains still run.
This story was originally published in the ezine Noctober back in February 2009. As with dozens of other small press magazines I’ve come to know over the years, Noctober was short-lived – Going Underground was in the first of only three issues. However, magazine acceptance is something I value highly regardless of how small the magazine is – it is a sign that your work is reaching a standard where other people like it. A lot of indie writers that have emerged with the Amazon self-publishing revolution have never spent time struggling to get published, either at major publishers or even in small press ezines. To me that struggle is an important part of being a writer – it is one of many processes through which your writing and your resolve improves, and judging by a lot of the self-published junk on Amazon that gives all indie writers a bad name it is a process that a lot of so-called writers should make use of before they join the stampede to upload.
Anyway, enough complaining about rubbish writers … the cover of the story is just a staircase leading down into an underground station. Like the story, the cover represents mystery, not knowing what you will find around the next corner. A lot of my short stories end this way, because while a novel often has a complete story arc, many short stories are left open to interpretation, and this is the beauty of them. There is a huge difference between incomplete and inconclusive.
So, Going Underground is FREE this week on Wednesday and Thursday. Please read and enjoy.
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Undergrou...
CW
(taken from my blog, where you see pictures and stuff - http://amillionmilesfromanywhere.blog...)
Going Underground is going FREE Wed 6th& Thurs 7th (Amazon link)
Going Underground is a near-future dystopian short story set vaguely in the same world as my novel, The Tube Riders. The central character is Rob, a young man who lives in the desolate outskirts of London, and who has a dream – to find out if the Underground trains still run.
This story was originally published in the ezine Noctober back in February 2009. As with dozens of other small press magazines I’ve come to know over the years, Noctober was short-lived – Going Underground was in the first of only three issues. However, magazine acceptance is something I value highly regardless of how small the magazine is – it is a sign that your work is reaching a standard where other people like it. A lot of indie writers that have emerged with the Amazon self-publishing revolution have never spent time struggling to get published, either at major publishers or even in small press ezines. To me that struggle is an important part of being a writer – it is one of many processes through which your writing and your resolve improves, and judging by a lot of the self-published junk on Amazon that gives all indie writers a bad name it is a process that a lot of so-called writers should make use of before they join the stampede to upload.
Anyway, enough complaining about rubbish writers … the cover of the story is just a staircase leading down into an underground station. Like the story, the cover represents mystery, not knowing what you will find around the next corner. A lot of my short stories end this way, because while a novel often has a complete story arc, many short stories are left open to interpretation, and this is the beauty of them. There is a huge difference between incomplete and inconclusive.
So, Going Underground is FREE this week on Wednesday and Thursday. Please read and enjoy.
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Undergrou...
CW
(taken from my blog, where you see pictures and stuff - http://amillionmilesfromanywhere.blog...)
The Man Who Built the World new teaser
Well, I'm nearing the end of proofing for my next novel and I found this nice little segment I wanted to share.
This is from Part One.
You can’t just leave like that, you know you can’t.
The thought hit him like a hard slap across the face, and for a moment he stumbled, catching his footing just in time to avoid tumbling towards the puddles hidden in the dark at his feet. Just a thought, just a stupid, irrational thought, but it had snagged him like the barb of a fisherman’s hook. His very presence back in Tamerton had opened up a whole can of long forgotten emotions that would take time to sort, time he didn’t have.
Time he didn’t want to give.
He should have stayed away. They didn’t need him, hadn’t for fourteen years. His sister wouldn’t know he had come; she was dead, after all.
And what sort of reception could he expect from his father? Ian Cassidy had made the call to him – only Heaven knew how he had found Matt’s number – but how much of that had been as a duty? How much did he really want to see his son?
Welcome home son. Welcome home, little me.
The Man Who Built The World is a stand alone paranormal fantasy/horror of 228 pages. It's badass. Read it.
CW
This is from Part One.
You can’t just leave like that, you know you can’t.
The thought hit him like a hard slap across the face, and for a moment he stumbled, catching his footing just in time to avoid tumbling towards the puddles hidden in the dark at his feet. Just a thought, just a stupid, irrational thought, but it had snagged him like the barb of a fisherman’s hook. His very presence back in Tamerton had opened up a whole can of long forgotten emotions that would take time to sort, time he didn’t have.
Time he didn’t want to give.
He should have stayed away. They didn’t need him, hadn’t for fourteen years. His sister wouldn’t know he had come; she was dead, after all.
And what sort of reception could he expect from his father? Ian Cassidy had made the call to him – only Heaven knew how he had found Matt’s number – but how much of that had been as a duty? How much did he really want to see his son?
Welcome home son. Welcome home, little me.
The Man Who Built The World is a stand alone paranormal fantasy/horror of 228 pages. It's badass. Read it.
CW
