The Gallery is a bit of balderdash that set Pete, the Swede, and their women off on a wild goose chase across the universe which eventually became The Perihelix. And I wrote it ten years ago! The fact that it’s
Viridian and Princelings Offers in Read an Ebook Week #ebookweek24
Offers – I’m trying not to do them these days, but Bob mentioned he’d missed a Princelings book or two, and I thought I’d run something for Read an Ebook Week this year. Princelings ebooks on offer 3-9 March You
Great Prices in the Smashwords End of Year Sale
My ebooks are at great prices from now until 1st January in the Smashwords End of Year Sale. The later books in the Princelings and Viridian System series are particularly good value! FREE EBOOKS HALF PRICE 25% discount Also available
Krismas Wreath | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Krismas is a time of celebration in Corsair, very similar to our Christmas. I was not going to use the wreath prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com this week. I started on one of my favourite Christmas pieces, an interview
Which world? #IWSG July 2022
Which world would I like to live in? That’s the IWSG question today. I’m glad I can answer it because I can’t think of anything to write about just now. My brain is fried, and my inbox is overwhelming me.
A is for the A to Z Challenge 2021 #atozchallenge2021 #amwriting
A to Z Challenge is not for me, I said. I’m not doing it this year. But I am challenging myself this month, so I decided to make it a Writing Challenge. I have to finish Zanzibar’s Rings this month.
Quadrants – an #AtoZchallenge #Flashbackfriday post
‘Quadrants’ was part of my worldbuilding series on the AtoZ Challenge for 2016. I’m doing flashbacks from my seven challenges in honour of the Tenth Anniversary. I have a science fiction series that goes by the name of the Viridian
Orogeny: Flash Fiction + link to #WEP post #AtoZChallenge
Orogeny, or mountain building, featured as my A to Z for O in 2015. This year my theme is flashbacks. I’m picking out posts from the seven A to Zs I’ve done before. Wednesday 17th is supposed to be the
WEP – August #flashfiction | Change of Heart
Change of Heart is the prompt for this, my first entry into the linked up WEP+IWSG short story event. WEP is Write…Edit…Publish, and IWSG is the Insecure Writers Support Group, as you know from myriad first Wednesday of the month
Postcard from Camp 4 | All done! #campnanowinner2018 #flashbackfriday
Well, I’m all done for another year! I’ve ‘won’ Camp NanoWriMo by completing my goal of editing Curved Space to Corsair, in over 80,000 words (88,000 approximately). And I have the badge to prove it! I’ve also started work on
FridayFlash Space Opera | The White Rose of York
Chuck’s back, and he asked for Space Opera today. I’ve cheated slightly, as I considered doing some more backstory for the Perihelix women, and didn’t think I had the time. Doing a whole space opera in 1000 words is tough,
#Fi50 | The Worst That Could Happen
The Worst That Could Happen is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in Fifty words, the brainchild of Bruce Gargoyle and organised by Rebecca Douglass. Nip over here to the sign-up page if you’d like to join in. All you
FridayFlash Fiction | Ghosts of the Sea Queen
Ghosts of the Sea Queen: With no particular prompt this week I went back to the list of titles Chuck Wendig gave us a few weeks back, and picked out this one, with various Marie Celeste images floating through my
Free books at Smashwords through July
I have free books for you at Smashwords all through July. I also have some at half price. So if you want to catch up on the Princelings series, or you missed out on the giveaway for my father’s memoirs,
Off to Camp NaNoWriMo at the weekend!
Camp NaNoWriMo – yes it’s back, and so am I. I finished the edit of Princelings 8 over the past few months and sent it to my editor a couple of days ago. So now I’m back to the elephant in