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NitS: Another 1K+ Words Bite the Dust

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Yeh! another thousand words of Night in the Sidhe bit the dust yesterday as I found a way from the bit of dialogue to the climactic fight sequence. I then immediately found I didn’t have a good idea for the fight but didn’t let that stop me so I just pushed on past it and […]

Astonishing Adventures! Magazine Issue 2 Out Now

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Here’s the cover for issue 2 of Astonishing Adventures! Magazine which has my story The Steward, the Kriegsherr, his Femme Fatale & her Brother in is out now. Yeh 🙂

Astonishing Adventures! Magazine Issue 2 Cover

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Here’s the cover for issue 2 of Astonishing Adventures! Magazine which has my story The Steward, the Kriegsherr, his Femme Fatale & her Brother in it. I know the guys are working really hard to get it out soon.

NitSCreeping Past 80K

Friday, December 7th, 2007

It’s taken nearly two months but Night and the Sidhe finally crept past the 80K word mark thanks to two nights when the police helicopter woke me up this week. Each time I had a random fragment of the story in my head. Not the next bit which I’ve been stuck on which I really […]

Dragging Words onto the Page

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

There are days that it feels like words flow on to the page but then there are days that no matter how much I want them to they just don’t. I’ve managed around three hundred on Night and the Sidhe, four hundred more to the yet to be named short story I’m working on and […]

One divided by Two Equals Two

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

I started editing Mrs H’s Knitting Circle last night. It was so far over the word count I realised I needed to do something drastic. It was ending on a long bit of dialogue that I liked after an unseen action sequence. So, thanks to the joys of word processing, I’ve rewritten it to put […]

Planet of Danger

Monday, November 26th, 2007

When it was quiet late on Friday night I recorded the first half of myself reading The Electron Jockey. I’ve spent some of today editing the first Planet of Danger cast which will eventually be a part of the, yet to be launched, Dirk Dangerous web site. So far I’m about half way through the […]

Mrs H.'s Knitting Circle Arrgh!

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

I got inspiration for the Mrs H.’s Knitting Circle tonight and pushed on through the next scene and past the 3,500 word limit which is a problem as I’m not close to the end yet. However I scrimped on a couple of earlier sections so I’m thinking I could expand them and move some of […]

I sure pick the day to mess with American History

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

I’ve been using the wibbly wobbly web and associated Internet thingy for well over a decade now. In that time I’ve made friends all over the world including America. Funny thing is that today is the first time I can remember being wished happy thanksgiving. Its not just happened once though but several times. Anyway […]

Astonishing Adventures Magazine Now in Print

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Astonishing Adventures Magazine Issue 1 is now available in print through Lulu and includes my short story, The Electron Jockey. The free PDF of Astonishing Adventures Magazine Issue 1 is also still available.

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