Wayne Smallman's Blog, page 2
January 8, 2015
A question of faith (or, a questioning of faith)
I have to question the faith of anyone whose beliefs are so easily shaken by mere words. Continue reading →
November 5, 2013
You are here!
Just in case you've found yourself on my website for no obvious or apparent reason, it's likely that you're the victim of a scam... Continue reading →
October 11, 2013
No, not like the Marvel Universe
Just after writing Earth Day, I had an idea (more of an epiphany, really), which — on reflection — should have given me more pause for thought, but didn't... Continue reading →
September 17, 2013
Is it okay to be a selfish writer?
Someone asked whether it was the allure of wealth or fame that compelled their fellow writers. Of course, I had my own thoughts on this. Continue reading →
July 26, 2013
A fascination with everything
"What Fascinates You?" A simple enough question I found in a forum on Goodreads. But context is everything, isn't it? In the context of being a writer, what fascinates me is no different to what fascinates me as a human. Continue reading →
So you thought being a superhero would be easy?
Joe from A Darkening of Fortune must know exactly how this guy feels. Continue reading →
July 16, 2013
Spider-Man got an Mp3 player? Joe's got WiFi!
"Entertainment Weekly has an interactive feature up detailing the changes in Spidey's suit for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Most of the changes are visual, but at least one is purely for Peter Parker's enjoyment — a built-in MP3 player."
I kind of beat Parker to the beats in my hard sci-fi novel, A Darkening of Fortune, along with built-in WiFi, for all the good it did the protagonist Joe Iqbal…
June 26, 2013
I have a distraction…
Aside from Octane, my own business, to keep me occupied, I have several personal projects, such as writing and aspiring to be an author of some renown. But I also have a dream, and it's proving to be a distraction. Continue reading →
March 20, 2013
A continuum of ideas
Imagine, every single story connected to another in some way, weaving a thread through space and time, with each story revealing something else, something perhaps trivial, or maybe deep and provocative, but each incrementally building upon the one before. Continue reading →
March 11, 2013
Remembrance. Fear the forgotten.
Hi everyone!
My latest novella, Remembrance, is available for Amazon Kindle:
My latest novella, Remembrance, is available for Amazon Kindle:
“After many years, two former school friends meet by chance. Or do they? Deborah — a high-flying corporate lawyer, now living in New York — remembers a sequence of events one way, while Ben — a travel writer and campaigning journalist — remembers them another. But why?
Unable to shake loose the feeling that something's wrong, Deborah and Ben return to the rural idyll of their home village in England, to make sense of what really happened during that apparently lost week in their young lives.
What they uncover is more disturbing than anything they could have ever imagined, striking at the very heart of their adolescence, affecting not just their own lives, but the lives, the careers and the reputations of people past and present: an event so unbelievable, only the unimaginable could bring it to an end.”
