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Just before I cast myself into the abyss that is putting together TikTok videos for the series, I’m doing two things. Maybe three. The first is to put up the link to Watcher which has now made it through the Amazon process. Where is it you ask? Why immediately below, I reply, pondering whether IContinueContinue reading “And here’s the link – Watcher”

It’s been a long and slightly irritating road. A road that has led me down a distressingly large number of side roads leading to dead ends, but Watcher on the Water, the second of the main series for Ice Age in Scarlet, is finally ready for pre-orders. So that means waiting 48 hours before itContinueContinue reading “Watcher’s ready!”

I’m struggling to get the next series book out. It’s down to the passage of time. Basically Watcher on the Water was one of the first books I wrote and was always a bit of an outlier. A tale of the immediate post-apocalypse before most of the rest of the series had been written andContinueContinue reading “The perils of overcomplication”

I don’t know what you think about Nanowrimo but I find it useful. (Clarification: I don’t know who you are in the first place, dear reader. So don’t let my lack of knowledge of your preferences around periodic writing programs play too much of a part in your view of my books or me asContinueContinue reading “A little bit of Nanowrimo”

This is a post about the difference between a story being apparently ready in a series author’s head, and it being ‘uploadable’ ready and the work that’s needed to move from point A to point B even if you’re a ‘lite’ style author who’s not interested in beta readers and the usual publishing paraphernalia. So.ContinueContinue reading “The difference – An uploading story”

Well time really does fly when you set pre-orders on your prequels without taking into account the possibility that a whole heap of things can go wrong, go right, or take a lot longer than expected. Currently on a bit of a sprint to get Strange Allegiances up before the deadline tomorrow at Midnight. TheContinueContinue reading “Tempus Fugit, Amazon Preorders”

And now it’s here. Ice Age in Scarlet launches tomorrow with the release of Master In His Tomb, to be quickly followed by prequels (on KU) and the next in the main series (going wide). It feels good to have a book up on the shelf (my proofs for Master In His Tomb arrived aContinueContinue reading “It’s been a while coming”

With a nod to W.B. Yeats of course. Publication day approaches, and my need to blog increases. Having listened to my previous two randomly assigned recordings it occurs to me that now would be a good time to explain the basics of the Ice Age in Scarlet setting as otherwise the random entries make veryContinueContinue reading “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

A Kenneth Williams reference from Carry on Screaming, which seems appropriate given the borderline horror element of the series to date. Also because I couldn’t think of another intro to this blog. The series has made a few leaps and bounds towards publication since my last post, so rather than going further into the individualContinueContinue reading “Frying tonight”