The Family.An ancient faction of vampires under the control of the Vampire Masters, headquartered in the ‘English Club’ on the Rue de Caumartin in Paris.Originally entering historical records somewhere around the late Iron Age as a meddling organization devoted to the ‘advancement’ of humanity, the Family appears to have replaced a previous organization whose detailsContinueContinue reading “The factions of the Catastrophe”
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How to publish a book (1)
Not a financially successful one. That’s luck once you’ve got past the basic requirement of ‘having a book that’s up to a certain level’ (and believe you, me – it’s not a high hurdle, have you read some of today’s best sellers? Market, people. Market!) But I get ahead of myself. This short series willContinueContinue reading “How to publish a book (1)”
Pushing on
There have been a few changes at Chez Holloway since I last posted something here. Some of it’s writing related, and some of it’s been life related. The main, and most obvious change is that I’m now based with the family up in Alaska (which led to a partially successful foray into genre writing withinContinueContinue reading “Pushing on”
… Timing!
Having finally polished Watcher on the Water into something I can live with, I’m now moving on to the next book in the series. In a break from tradition, it’s a direct follow up to Watcher, which (if you’ve read it) ends with the main characters departing the Port, where a battle is going onContinueContinue reading “… Timing!”
The joy of rewrites
It’s been a while since I put up the e-book version of Watcher on Amazon, and I’m finally getting around to uploading the paperback version having had the cover delivered by my excellent cover designer for the main series. And no, the prequel covers are not professionally made. If you’ve seen them you’re likely awareContinueContinue reading “The joy of rewrites”
Why write when you can pictograph?
One of the ‘sneakier’ element of the Ice Age in Scarlet series (and a homage to the way that literacy disappeared from the Greek World following the Bronze Age collapse) is that over the course of the series what you and I might think of as ‘literacy’ disappears. It’s not a quick event and it’sContinueContinue reading “Why write when you can pictograph?”
Oh, Marketing
I’m getting the hang of TikTok. It’s actually quite fun, there’s something satisfying about sticking together blocks of video to produce something that vaguely resembles an advert for my books, generally to a Richard Cheese track. Here’s an example. If the link works… https://www.tiktok.com/@iceageinscarlet/video/7074964956277460230?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id7015588786604492294 Currently it’s having no effect on my sales. That’s something thatContinueContinue reading “Oh, Marketing”
And here’s the link – Watcher
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”
Watcher’s ready!
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!”
The perils of overcomplication
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”
Ice Age in Scarlet 