Day 8 Kickstarter Diary

The Kickstarter campaign launched this morning (10th July 2026). The campaign was actually approved on Tuesday evening, so I activated the prelaunch phase. It seems people tend to keep their projects in prelaunch for quite a while to gather support before they actually launch their campaign. I’m working to a tight deadline, so delay the […]

KICKSTARTER Diary Day 5

I got a response from Kickstarter today. Embarrassingly, I got flagged for AI use. So today’s lesson is to make sure to disclose when you have used AI. I used Gemini to produce mock-ups of what the books may look like, using the artwork produced by my artist daughter, who currently goes by Velenyx on […]

Arabian Dreams Kickstarter Diary Day 1

Today is a big day. I’ve just finished shooting and editing my Kickstarter project video and have uploaded it to the page that I have created for my Arabian Dreams Kickstarter. The aim of this diary is to make notes and share my experience of running a Kickstarter with my readers. It took me a […]

Covers Revealed

The last time I released a book was 14th June 2014. Since then I’ve been absent from the fiction market. A lot has changed. I changed careers, went back to uni to retrain as a teacher/lecturer and completed a Doctorate in Education. Now, 12 years later I’m finally looking to release not one, but two […]

February 2026

January seems to be the longest month of the year. Fantasy&Faith Season 3 launched and so far I have interviewed M D Ndogo, Dan Hanly, Umar Ditta, Tanweer Dar, James Barclay and Anna Smith Spark. I’m interviewing Adrian Tchaikovsky this week and J E Hannaford next weekend. I have a few more in the pipeline […]

Alauddin Update

Work has started on this rewrite of something I wrote in my teen years. Initially, it was meant to be a padding out of the original with some more character work and plot. However, as these things go, it’s kind of become a full rewrite. The original was good for a teen project. I was […]