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A Subtle Agency
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UK-AK - The Metaframe War Series by Graeme Rodaughan
My author page is at,https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
My Goodreads blog provides a quick source of background and context to A Subtle Agency and the universe of The Metaframe War and is at,
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
The book is distributed (both Kindle and Paperback) by Amazon on Kindle Unlimited at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FS73TXY
I am very happy to answer any questions on my GR author page, my GR blog, this thread, or via personal GR message.
Enjoy.
Hi Graeme - a UK amazon.co.uk link would be more useful for most of us... :)
I have a new blog post up titled "False Flagging the Boss" athttps://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Uh oh.I've discovered your thread, Graeme.
I know where I'm gonna throw my next party.
No burning the curtains, Patti!
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "No burning the curtains, Patti!"Would I?
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "No burning the curtains, Patti!"Would I?"
Looking at your record, yes you would. Now put those matches down.
I found my old zippo today. :D
Uh-oh. Someone call the fire brigade. And we might want to ask Claire to stand by...
I also found lighter fluid and new flints.
Ok, we have a couple of fire engines and Claire's ambulance outside. Everyone please leave the thread!!
I also found a big bag of cotton pillow stuffing.
*runs like hell to get out of range*
C'mere GL.I wanna show you something.
Play nice - I'm travelling out of town on mysterious business today.
Sorry Graeme, looks like you'll be coming back to a burnt-out shell of a thread, despite my best efforts. Patti can be awfully sneaky.
Ooooooo unattended thread!I don't have to be sneaky.
*gets out the bag of scented tealights*
I'm Baaackkk!!!(Now I'm sure that you missed me, missed me, missed me... rustles in the kitchen draw - "no not that knife - not sharp enough!" "Shut up! What did I tell ya - you don't know nuthin bout sharps - you wanna big one." - "Yeah the one at the back that's the one - that'll do...yeah sweet", the rustling stopped - then there was only the footsteps, slowly getting closer and closer, and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it).
Sounds like a hatchet job to me.
Or maybe a machete.
There was an ominous understone to that chuckle. I think someone need to keep an eye on you...
Noooooooooo - Not the Light!!!!!!
Hi all, I am looking to round up some numbers for a free read of
via Kindle download from Amazon.I will make the book free for 5 consecutive days for anyone to download as they wish.
No strings attached, no obligation for a review - just hopefully and opportunity for everyone to enjoy a good story.
If you are interested, post here and mark the book "to-read" and once I've got some numbers up - I will make it free.
Cheers Graeme
Anton has a dream and makes an essential realisation about the true nature of the Vampire Dominion.A draft snippet from A Traitor's War on my GR blog.
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Enforcing Vampire law at the end of the second world war.Check out some Metaframe War backstory at https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I will be making the kindle version of the first instalment of The Metaframe War
A Subtle Agency free for download from Amazon on the following dates.BEGINS: Monday 18th July 2016
ENDS: Friday 22nd July 2016
I hope that you enjoy it.
Cheers Graeme
Free Kindle Promotion is now onEveryone can now download a free version of A Subtle Agency
If you follow the link above, and select preview it will give you the option to reach the right Amazon market place to get your copy.
The promotion will end this Friday the 22nd of July.
Enjoy
Cheers Graeme
Cheers Tim.Hope that you enjoy it.
New Blog post; re progress on the next book in The Metaframe War series.Diamonds! - A Ripper Ending
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
New Blog Post: Prompted by an awesome question from the Goodreads community on how to accurately portray morality and moral dilemmas in writing.I couldn't resist having a shot at answering such a great question. So I blogged it here.
Morality and Moral Dilemmas
New Blog Post: Progressing chapter two of A Traitor's War and running into a couple of problems that had a common solution.Connective Tissue?
New Blog Post: Titled "Location, location, location - Kinda"I'm working on chapter 3 (of 9) of A Traitor's War and I had to dig into location research as I have a big fight coming up in Chapter 4. (not a spoiler - any one with a passing acquaintance with my writing knows that there will be fights.)
My original scene definitions for chapters 3 and 4 were a little vague on the location which I envisioned as a derelict residential and light business district.
Actually writing the scenes has forced me to tighten this up, and as usual, the process has produced a better result than the plan.
(... what's that about a plan never surviving contact with the enemy ...)
I like to place my action on real world physical locations which I then modify to support the dramatic needs of the narrative.
Read the rest here.
New Blog Post: Titled "The Genesis of the Vampires"The event that gave birth to the Metaframe War occurs more than 5000 years in the past.
Southern Egypt
The temple of Thoth
3023 BC
Thunder boomed and echoed across a sky howling with madness.
Lightning bolts sheeted between bubbling masses of black thunderheads as the crimson light of the setting sun slashed across the rock and sand before the temple of Thoth.
Hakron shivered with more than the sudden cold, drawing his cloak more tightly around his tall, lean frame.
This storm is not born of nature.
He took a step back beneath the cover of the stone pillars and the vaulting roof of the temple of Thoth. An attendant, shaking with fear, stood beside him.
‘Our Master comes,’ the man whispered hoarsely.
Our men are undone by this devilish storm.
Read the rest of this backstory event of the Metaframe War here.
A new blog post on the topic of best selling fiction.According to Courtney Carpenter there are 21 Key Traits of Best-Selling Fiction
Lets check this out by application to my stories.
1. Utility - Very high, provided you're a vampire hunter.
2. Information - Vampires don't like silver or sunlight
3. Substance - See point 1 above.
4. Focus - Vampires are bad.
5. Logic - Vampires are consistently bad.
6. A sense of connection - On the off chance that vampires are real...
7. A compelling style - If you fear vampires you'll love my book.
8. A sense of humor - There is at least one joke in chapter 6.
9. Simplicity - Just about hunting vampires.
10. Entertainment - There are fracking vampires in there!
11. A fast pace - There are vampires and/or fights in every second scene.
12. Imagery - The vampires are really well drawn.
13. Creativity - The origin of the vampires is novel.
14. Excitement - Fight scenes are short, sharp and frequent.
15. Comfort - The vampires die.
16. Happiness - The vampires stay dead.
17. Truth - It could be true. No really, it could be true...
18. Writing that provokes - You will think long and hard about vampires while reading my book.
19. Active, memorable writing - Last sentence of the prologue, and again in the 4th scene of Chapter 7.
20. A sense of Wow! - Has reputedly happened at least once. (On good authority...)
21. Transcendence - last chapter of the last book of the series due for release in Q3 2023.
A new blog post where I interview my main character Anton Slayne.‘I’m sitting with Anton Slayne at Patrick O’Malleys Irish pub just off the Boston CBD. Anton’s recently landed a gig as the main character of a new series of books, beginning with A Subtle Agency and has agreed to give an interview for my Blog.’
‘So let’s begin Anton, how did you get the gig?’
‘Well, I saw an advertisement in the Boston Mercury for a main character for an upcoming novel, they said they were looking for someone who could play a star hockey player and Boston University freshman, so I brushed up my CV and sent it in.’
‘So what happened then?’
Read the rest here.
Not sure I dare click 'more' on that one, at least not yet, since I haven't finished MFW...Yay Team Chloe! possibly. Or maybe not ;)
For the purest experience - read A Subtle Agency first. But the content above gives away little more than a blurb would.
Yeah, I'm about halfway through that one - the Wus (no apostrophe! :-p) are gearing up for a fight, with Chloe watching from across the street . . .
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All my books are published via Draft2Digital and Amazon on the following platforms.
AMAZON UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01FS73TXY
APPLE, NOOK, KOBO, et al: https://www.books2read.com/u/mqpNB8
AMAZON UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06ZZ8ZLKD
APPLE, NOOK, KOBO, et al: https://www.books2read.com/u/4Do82r
AMAZON UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078QFTCMS
APPLE, NOOK, KOBO, et al: https://www.books2read.com/u/mBM7lO
Standard pricing is US $4.99 for each book.
From there you can easily navigate to your home market if you are outside the US.
In a universe where reality can be re-programmed, any wish can be satisfied or any nightmare realised.
Set in a near future Boston & New York; in a world that looks a lot like ours, vampires rule from the shadows, but they are not unopposed.
Standing against them are two ancient secret societies. The Order of Thoth and the Red Empire, united in their opposition to the vampires and bitterly divided by their different values.
A young Anton Smith, a Boston university student in his freshman year, and star Hockey player comes to the attention of the 2nd most powerful vampire in the world, General Chloe Armitage and she has a visionary plan for the future in which she needs Anton to play a critical part.
Anton's world and everything that he thought he knew is shattered, he is thrown onto the streets of Boston and must quickly adapt to survive. But will he learn what he needs to know quickly enough to make a difference or will he become a knight in an ambitious vampire's chess game where the future of humanity is at stake.
Recent reviews from GR readers are here.
BOOM! I loved this indie vampire action movie and gave it all the stars! Yes, technically, it's a book but as there were more bullets than words spoken I'm calling it an ACTION MOVIE.
and
Like Brian Lumley’s “Necroscope” series, “Metaframe” is a spy thriller with vampires. Here, the vampires’ agents employ state-of-the-art tracking devices, civil information-gathering, electronic forgery, and a small army of state-authorized operatives to track down our hero, Anton Smith.
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Wow, what a wild ride! After Anton Slayne is forced to watch an unspeakable execution, he manages to escape and is forced into hiding in order to thwart those who seek to use him for their own means. In exile, he meets Gang Wu and his daughter Li, who prepare him to battle inhumanely powerful enemies. The mystery is, why is everyone after Slayne anyway?
Worth having a look at.
Cheers Graeme