Review: Infinity Blade Awakening by Brandon Sanderson

Infinity Blade: Awakening by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I first heard of Brandon Sanderson when he took up the mantle to complete the Wheel of Time series, although this would be the first of his work that I’ve read. Infinity Blade starts off with a simple premise. A young warrior has […]

40% off The Changeling King

This is a limited time offer that is running until 29 June 2012!!!! I’m already offering the trade paperback at 20% discount off the RRP on the Lulu website. Now Lulu are offering a site wide promotion with an extra 20% off. This means that you get to save 40% off the jacket price. Visit: http://www.lulu.com/shop/noor-a-jahangir/the-changeling-king/paperback/product-20196063.html […]

The Changeling King in Print

That’s right. You read it right. The Changeling King is now in print and currently available from Lulu. It will be available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other good bookshops through Ingrams in a matter of weeks. If you live in Lancashire, England, look out for the various launch events I’m organizing. If you […]

Constipation of the Mind

Those who follow my Facebook posts know that I’ve been out of action on the fiction front for a couple of months. I’ve been hard at work finishing off essays and my dissertation for my MA in Community Leadership. That’s done now and I graduate in about a month’s time. I may have been taking […]

Monster vs Mariner: The Gothic Novel

In 1765, when Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto during the Romantic period, the Gothic novel became acceptable writing material. Early depictions of the genre saw the use of stereotypical settings, usually an eerie castle or mansion on a wind-swept moor, where mysterious and macabre incidents occurred especially on stormy nights. It was also […]

Cyborgs and Cyberbodies

Descartes (1637) statement, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ defined human subjectivity in a way none had before him. According to the pioneers of logic, the term ‘human’ was defined by the following logical equation: Animal + Speech = a speaking animal = human. According to Descartes statement, speech is not enough and indeed with the […]

Originally posted on Fabulous Realms:
There is perhaps no fantasy creature that is as awesome, iconic and ubiquitous as the dragon, which is as popular in mythology as it is in fiction. In fantasy novel terms, perhaps the earliest fictional depiction of a dragon appeared in The Hobbit, J R R Tolkien’s 1937 prelude to…

The Tingle

I know what you’re thinking. What on earth is the tingle? If you read my recent post on phases you’ll know that I’m currently in academic gear (driving analogy, not clothing). But over the last few days I’ve started to experience a not too unfamiliar sensation that tells me I should be doing something, almost […]

Phases

I think people go through a cycle of phases, of doing things that they love, but really going at it for a while before lapsing for a while. Take me for example. I’ve been working my behind off for the last month on writing my Masters dissertation and have done no other writing whatsoever. Even […]

Live Again

After a couple of weeks of trying to transition from the old site, which still exists in the ether, I have finally managed to configure the trollking web address to the blog site and set up my email using Google Apps. So hopefully you can continue to visit for book reviews and news about my […]