Writer’s Journeys

Farhana Shaikh of the Asian Writer interviewed me a couple of weeks ago and the transcript is now live on the Asian Writer website. In addition to this interview, Rod Seeder has featured my personal journey to publishing The Changeling King on his Virtual Books blog. At the time of writing this post, The Changeling […]

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That Scary Book Cover

The original photograph is by Derek R Audette, a talented chap with a portfolio of freaky looking guys. The original black and white shot was so good that it only took me a couple of hours to adjust it on Paint.net, a free photo editing software available from filehippo.com. It’s not PhotoShop, but still manages […]

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Publication!!!

Its happened! The Changeling King has been published through Smashwords and is now downloadable as an ebook in various formats. Don’t worry if you don’t have a smartphone or an ebook enabled device, you can read it on your computer. If you’ve got a Kindle, a Nook or an iPad, it will soon be coming […]

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Seven Earths

Remember Seven Earths? eJournal of fantasy, sf and horror? Stop laughing. After issue 1 received good feedback, issue two experienced failure to launch. Why? The submissions were thin on the ground and the few we received weren’t good enough. We can’t just print everything. That defeats the point. So I sent the Brothers Anwar an […]

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Marathon

No I’m not talking about the original UK version of the Snickers bar! I’m talking about a three movie stint I had at Reading Oracle’s VUE cinema. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Fast Five and Thor, over a day and a half. If X-Men First Class had come out a day […]

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The Ebook Conspiracy

There is an ebook conspiracy going on out there, I’m sure of it. Engineered by Apple and Amazon (notice that both company names start with A?), they have been quietly kidnapping publishers and brain-washing them before releasing them in front of alarmist journalists to squeal, ‘10% of our sales this year have been ebooks’ or […]

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