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Nineworlds – Second Con of the year
As you might have guessed, I managed to sneak a few cons into the schedule this year. I chose to go to Nineworlds because Gav Thorpe had mentioned it and said that it was a good one to go to, and I needed to hand a copy of Raus! Untoten to one of the authors. I … Continue reading
I actually WROTE last night
I’ve set myself a daily 1000 word target. Every night so far I have hit or exceeded that, with the result that I’m ahead. The book that I’m writing will hopefully be a 75,000 word children’s novel and will tell the adventures of the airship Merry Sue and her crew – the one-eyed gnome bounty … Continue reading
Potatoes – The anthology – Cover Reveal
Potatoes, the anthology, edited by the awesome Stewart Hotston, will soon be released. I don’t have any links just yet, but rest assured that once I have them I shall indeed be letting everyone know. I do however, have a cover to reveal! It’s completely surreal because, let’s face it, the subject is completely surreal. … Continue reading
The Moving Statue – A poem by my daughter, aged 10
My daughter wrote this tonight as part of a homework assignment. I’m fairly impressed. She has a definite leaning towards horror in all of her writing. Warped little thing that she is 🙂 The moving statue I am the moving statue, Lifeless in the night when the great pearl of the sky comes to look … Continue reading
The art of blogging, I passed my first grading
Lots of people write blogs. Some write them to record their thoughts and lives, writing an invaluable historical account of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Others write them to comment on aspects of more serious matters such as politics, economics, the environment and animal welfare for example. Yet more, me included, write blogs … Continue reading
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