A Star Wars meets Minecraft challenge. Hm. How about we go back to my last Star Wars meets… It was June 2013, nobody liked it or commented on it, and I had forgotten the detail, yet it remains one of
The Perihelix by Jemima Pett
Tomorrow is launch day! Today you can pre-order it at Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo. Tomorrow it will be for sale on Smashwords too. By the way, you can also vote for The Traveler in Black and White on AUTHOR SHOUT
Friday Flash Excerpt – Spending money
I’ve been bound up with editing The Perihelix this week, and can’t even think of other topics for writing. I spent two days reading the latest draft out loud (and recording it, although I don’t know that I need to
Yuletide Greetings
Apart from my Fi50 offering on Wednesday, this is my last post before Christmas, so you’ll find a set of stories on my book sites to keep you going: Christmas in the Delta Quadrant – Easy Come, Easy Go on the
#Fi50 – An Unexpected Arrival – and reading challenge round-up
This is my #Fi50 – Fiction in Fifty Words – for November, with the prompt as the title. It’s a Viridian System snippet of Dolores’ backstory, which will make little sense if you haven’t read any of Big Pete and the Swede’s adventures
Friday Flash Fiction | Surviving the Sleeve
Chuck‘s back, although seemingly exhausted! Our challenge this week is a piece of space opera… nominally in honour of a new Star Wars film. 1000 words. Well, I could have an ‘incident’ with the Federation and the Imperium… set post-Perihelix. purists
A Viridian System Sampler – pre-order now!
With The Perihelix coming out in January, I’ve been working on a little teaser for you – a set of eight short stories (all previously published on this blog) which map the development of the Viridian System and the characters
Flash Fiction Friday | A Perihelix Extract
With everything that’s going on at the moment, I really can’t get my head around Chuck’s challenges. I decided to give you another taster from near the start of The Perihelix, starring my asteroid miners, Big Pete and the Swede.
⌗Fi50 for August – A Calculated Risk
The prompt for this month’s fiction in fifty words came just as I was playing with the second book in the Viridian series. If you’re keen to be a beta reader of the first book, The Perihelix, and I haven’t
Flash Friday Quote and Question
My options for today’s flash fiction post were: do 1000 words on ‘why I write’ which is today’s challenge from Chuck Wendig; write 1000 words to one of the random titles that came up a couple of weeks back when
Postcard from Camp – 18 July
Hi all Things are going well, but I must be the only writer in the world who edits a book and ends up with thousands more words. Most people say they tighten it up and remove at least 10%, often more.
Flash Excerpt and Question
A mash-up of a post for this Friday – it’s not really Flash Fiction, but it’s only 610 words, so it’s a sort of extended Quote and Question. This is from about halfway through The Perihelix (which I’m editing at present,
Postcard from camp 7th July
Hi all I’ve finished my first read-through of The Perihelix and really enjoyed it. There weren’t as many problems as I thought, but I do feel it needs a punchier opening. I want to pay more attention to description, too,
Off to summer camp again!
It’s that time of year again. You may be preparing for your Independence Day celebrations, but I’m off to camp for July. Camp NaNoWriMo, of course… Last year I wrote the first draft of The Perihelix – which didn’t have
Friday Flash Fiction | Disappearing Act
This week Chuck asked for ideas, and I suggested taking the last line of last week’s flash as the first in next week’s, but in a different genre. The alternative would be to use the first line and write to