Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
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
Voyage of the Lanternfish captured my imagination a while ago. Thank you Sally Cronin; her review prompted me to pull it out of the lower levels of my TBR. And now I have yet another first in series under my
The Jewel of Peru is book one of an intended MG series by Sharon Skretting, entitled The Ultimate Treasure Chest. I’ve taken the liberty of detaching it from its series name to fit in my Alphabet Soup reading challenge for
The Company of Eight was a book I requested on Net-Galley, so I thank them and the publishers for allowing me a review copy. As usual, my review is my honest opinion of the book. The Company of Eight Harriet
Our Fiction in 50 words prompt for June is The Only Certainty. I seem to be stuck in asteroid mining mode at present. If you’d like to join in on this very enjoyable meme, or see other people’s stories, check out
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
It is a very long time since I read this book, and like most people, I suppose, I remember Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver with his wooden leg and parrot on his shoulder. I could remember a few minor
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Action-packed, inventive, rip-roaring, bloodthirsty and brilliantly described, but not for children! The Airmen is the first in the series The Pirates of Aireon by R J Ashby. You are thrown headlong into a world of water, air, salvage, pirates and
This fast paced, quirky novella holds great promise for further adventures. This is the tale of Belladonna DeRanged and Benjamin Nightthorn, and how in turn they took the pleasant, talented, amusing but broke Otter’s Bizarre Circus through 13 years of
Here we are for the second interview in the series, and Victor is sitting in front of me, swapping his feet over and generally combining an air of nervousness with barely contained excitement. He tells me he has never been
A genuine Hero. Famous, successful, beloved by all. Bored to tears. Until it all goes horribly wrong… Mr Fritschi introduces us to Tilger, a Hero trying to recover his lost heroism. His pomposity is suffered by his highly intelligent horse
Last chance to get The Princelings and the Pirates for your Kindle (or Kindle App) for nothing! The book will be absolutely free in the run-up to the Easter weekend 5th and 6th April.
Princelings of the East has now been downloaded 22 times on Smashwords (including 3 by me, in different formats to check), all in its first week. All of those are samples rather than purchases but I hope they’ll want to