Category: Writing

  • Blades of the Fallen: Meet Ailan

    Blades of the Fallen: Meet Ailan

    Next up is the moody teenager, Ailan Suhn. Sent to try talking him round, Solan and Rialen quickly realise he is more than just a typical teen.

  • Blades of the Fallen: Meet Rialen

    Blades of the Fallen: Meet Rialen

    The second character in this short series of introductions is Solan’s closest friend, Rialen Solaax.

  • Blades of the Fallen: Meet Solan

    Blades of the Fallen: Meet Solan

    As we draw closer to the release of the third book in the NEXUS universe, I thought I could write a brief series of introductions to some of the characters in the book. These men and women are agents of the Vanguard, the Necurian people’s first and last line of…

  • Blades of the Fallen

    Blades of the Fallen

    Finally, here is the cover for the third NEXUS book: Blades of the Fallen! And it comes with a release date: 1 August 2017. Pre-order now!

  • Book 3 Cover Taster

    Book 3 Cover Taster

    You may have noticed my Facebook and Twitter (oh, and G+…) banners change. That was your first taste!

  • Newsletter and Stuff

    Newsletter and Stuff

    You probably noticed when you came to the site that a pop-up asked you to subscribe to my new newsletter. I’m a little late to it, but I thought it was about time to start building up a list.

  • Still Alive

    Still Alive

    You might be forgiven for thinking that perhaps I had died and decided that in this new state of unliving, I would abandon my blog. This is, you will be ecstatic to hear, not the case.

  • Birth of the Superhero

    Birth of the Superhero

    When hard times come our way, we begin to look once again to superheroes. When we think of children who were bullied in school, we tend to think of the kind of person who always had his nose in a comic book. While this is a stereotype, it’s one that…

  • Suspending Disbelief: The Line

    Suspending Disbelief: The Line

    When it comes to films, games, and even books, we’re often expected – and required – to suspend our disbelief concerning certain things. Giant, transforming, alien robots…okay. Scientist turns into a big green monster when he gets miffed…fine. Peter Quill floats in space for a minute and survives?! Absolutely unacceptable!

  • Kindle Direct Publishing Formatting Guide

    Kindle Direct Publishing Formatting Guide

    I recently wrote a guide on writing a book, and in it I said that I would write a guide to formatting for KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). This will be vaguely similar to my Smashwords formatting guide, but simpler.