Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Humphrey seems to have been going East forever. I wrote this story before The Talent Seekers, which was Humphrey’s starring role after his escape from the vile ladies of the Lost City. I thought it might make a prologue for
Hijack! was written in 2014, a 1000 word idea of events that would happen sometime in the Princelings future. The sub-plots were there, but didn’t come out quite how this one develops. The pirates at Castle Roc became supportive of
Humphrey Goes East is a 1000 word flash fiction I included in the A to Z Challenge 2013. To celebrate the A2Z team’s tenth anniversary, I’m blogging from my previous seven April Challenges. This is the first from 2013, when
What makes royalty special? Why should someone become king just because he’s born to the right parent? Today’s 250 word flash fiction (for the Bloggers Bash Blog Post Competition) goes to the heart of one of King Fred’s problems – and
As mentioned last week, Chuck Wendig invited us to provide three word titles from which he’d select ten for us to pick from for our 1000 words this week. The (awesome) winning selections were (with owners): All Flags Fall (lbstribling)
In this week’s Chuck Wendig Challenge we have to write 1000 words in a ‘something’-punk subgenre of our choice – a made up one, not a standard one like steampunk. I ducked the opportunity to devise a new one and
Strange to include this when the next eBook, The Talent Seekers, describes how Humphrey went west in the first place. This was written as a prologue for a later book, then I realised I wanted to bring Hector and Humphrey