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Feedback for "Shuttlers”
I’ve just received some of the feedback from the publishers of Shuttlers. It makes for interesting reading. “An exciting, very cool, very well written book. The action keeps the reader engaged from the beginning to the end. I found this novel…
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The state of the Feyrlands – Part 1: Time
In this series, I’ll be taking you on a whistle-stop tour around the Feyrlands, looking at life and civilisation, seeing how the peoples of the world live, and how society looks compared to what we are familiar with. In this first post, we’ll take a lo…
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"Step Into The Fifth Dimension” is out on Kindle!
Do you remember Twilight Zone? Or maybe it was The Outer Limits? It doesn’t matter whether they were the original series, the reruns, or even the reboots. Were you freaked out by the strange things going on in those stories, too? The weird events a…
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The Joy of Rereading Books
I’ve been blessed with the ability to read very quickly which enables my desire to plow through all the books I find interesting and those that are recommended to me. On the flip side, the pace at which I read means I rarely remember the details of a text beyond closing the back cover.…
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Award Eligibility 2021
Are you reading for award nominations? Just curious for an update on publications? This is what I’ve had published in 2021:Novel: Spire City: Occupied (serialized on Kindle Vella/Curious Fictions/Ko-fi)Short Stories: “Triptych of the Final St…
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Try some Kindle Vella serials!
Spire City: Occupied has now completed its run on Kindle Vella!It’s still there for people to read–and I’m intending for it to stay available to Vella readers. But now you can read the whole novel without having to wait for new episodes to appear. I t…
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Finish Something
So … I’m involved in a local writing group. Even in the backwoods of the high Arizona desert, we’ve managed to stitch together enough interested writers to have some peer reviews, writing exercises, and moral support. Our membership and numbers have fluctuated and we’ve had to make some adjustments during the pandemic but we’ve…
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Pepe Deluxe – Phantom Cabinet Vol. 1 – Shaun’s Review
Yes, I LOVED this album! Pepe Deluxé is a Finnish electronic music oriented band, formed in 1996 by DJ Slow (Vellu Maurola) JA-Jazz (Tomi Castrén, formerly Paajanen) and James Spectrum (Jari Salo) in Helsinki, Finland. How to describe this album? Well,…
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Terrible Spells
Hallo dear reader! Or should I say ‘Hello’? Language is a hard master. Just when you think you’ve finally got a handle on it, you realise you’re almost a beginner. The word hello, probably one of the top 10 in the English Language, has become my latest…