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February 14, 2011
Conjure - new revivew and now listed at GNP
Conjure is now listed up at the Generation Next Publications website and is still available for download from the following places:Amazon.comAmazon.co.ukorSmashwordsThe Amazon.com listing also features a new review, a four star one no less (and the reviewers gripe is one I've had before, that the book isn't long enough).I'm pleased with this and very glad that the novel is having the opportunity
February 12, 2011
The Shrieking Dead
I'm writing again, thankfully. "Wonderland" is now resting, midway through the second draft - it's a good story and I like it a lot, but I can't get it down to the required 7.5k words and so I'm leaving it for a while. I want to get my sub for Spectral sorted, before I start work on a new novel/novella ("Project Gash", all being well), so I'm focussing on that. The good news is, an idea came to
Nostalgia and monsters
I was reading through the first few posts at the Monster Awareness month being run by Mark Deniz and his team and something caught my eye in the Where Monsters Dwell article by Robert Hood. It was this picture, particularly, that got my attention. I know that image, I thought. I went onto eBay, luckily found a copy on there and ordered it. It arrived today, in probably more of a mint condition
February 11, 2011
Nostalgia and Stormtroopers
I'm a nostalgic person and although I do live very much in the present - it's difficult not to, with an active and imaginative five-year-old in your life - the past does call to me strongly. This covers a lot of different aspects - family relationships, memories, photographs, films and books and TV - but one that's easiest to re-capture is with toys. No, hear me out, this isn't a freshly minted
February 7, 2011
This is important
I know that this blog is mainly about my writing (though a fair bit of family stuff seems to get on here, plus odds and ends I find interesting) but once in a while, something crops up that people need to know about.From the Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment... to sell 258,000 hectares (637,000 acres) of English forest for up to £250m
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Just a quick heads up that my essay/review of the wonderful Creature From The Black Lagoon is now posted at Mark Deniz's Monster Awareness Month site. Drop by and hang around for a while, there's plenty of good stuff already there and more planned (including another review to come from me, on a film that moves a long way from men in rubber suits!).
"Conjure" is now on Amazon (with a competition too!)
"Conjure", as you're probably aware by now, has just been published as an ebook by those nice folks at Generation Next Publications and is now available on Amazon, both the UK and US branches.For a limited time only, GNP are running a competition. Here're the details:If you purchase this eBook version of Mark West's "Conjure", you are eligible to win an autographed paperback copy of "In The Rain
February 4, 2011
Volkswagen Commercial: The Force
Further selling out of the Star Wars brand, I agree, but this brilliantly matches the Imperial March with a fine eye for detail, of how little kids act and move. Watch, in particlar, for how he waves off his Dad's embrace and then jumps, right at the end.Fantastic stuff!
February 3, 2011
Save Our Libraries!
A day of action on the 5th February 2011 - as supported by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals - http://www.cilip.org.uk/ Growing up in the 70s and 80s, long before the Internet came along (we all thought Whiz Kids and "War Games" were cool!), I used our local library a lot. For research, sometimes, for picking up the latest Three Investigator book - all the time!
January 30, 2011
Conjure - The ebook edition
I'm really pleased to announce that my short novel "Conjure" has just been re-published as an ebook by those nice folks at Generation Next Publications. This edition features a new cover design by me, though none of the interior artwork from the book version but, to make up for that, it does include my short story "Empty Souls, Drowning", which first appeared in my "Strange Tales" collection in
