ROSS HARRISON

ROSS HARRISON

Category: Writing

  • New Year, New…Year

    Yes, funnily enough the transition from 2013 to 2014, AKA Tuesday to Wednesday, has not heralded some transcendental change or indeed a sudden desire to lose weight, or gain weight, or eat more celery and less pig, or take more risks or less risks. It means we’re that much closer…

  • More Wyrdness

    Just a brief update. Firstly, here’s an interview I did a couple of weeks ago and forgot to tell anyone about. Oops… Secondly, Wyrd Worlds, the free anthology of which I am part of, is now up on Amazon (UK and US). So that rounds off its availability nicely. Amazon,…

  • The Strong Female Controversy/International Crisis

    Ok, I’m going to attempt to lure my thoughts out and onto digital paper. It may or may not work. And yes, it’s not quite a controversy, but it seems people here and there are trying to make it one. WARNING: I have no particularly direction for the post, so…

  • What Is She…Besides Strong?

    A few months ago, I read an article about strong female characters. The author gave an account of why she hates them. The gist of it is that male characters get to be all sorts of things, while female characters get to be ‘strong’. I don’t disagree, but I find…

  • Wyrd Worlds Anthology

    Rather abruptly, I am a part of a science fiction and fantasy anthology called Wyrd Worlds and published by WyrdStar. A collaboration of twelve authors, Wyrd Worlds contains science fiction and fantasy short stories ranging from two or three thousand words to thirteen and a bit thousand words. Some are…

  • Free and Half Price

    For the whole of July, all three of my works will be reduced in price on Smashwords. Shadow of the Wraith and Temple of the Sixth will both be 50% off, and Kira will be completely FREE! Yes, that warrants both capital letters and an exclamation mark. It tells you…

  • Thrillers, Horrors and Supermen

    My upcoming thriller has been rewritten and is now with beta readers. The feedback so far is very good. Although I think I may have made a wild guess in one post, I don’t have a release date yet. After I get it back from the proof readers, it will…

  • All Authors Blog Blitz

    Today, I am hosting an author interview as part of an ‘All Authors Blog Blitz’, started on Goodreads. My own will be hosted by Patti Lavell. My guest is Max E. Stone, a thriller writer. So…here he is, I guess (just pretend there’s trumpets and things): Let’s start with the…

  • The End

    I’ve been wondering what I might blog about for a while. I’m quite rubbish at thinking things up from nowhere, and need something to respond to usually. In this case, it’s the fact that I have just (about 7 minutes ago) finished the first draft of my semi-noir sci fi…

  • Writer’s Block Ego

    I wrote recently that the hardest thing about being a writer is not succumbing to the allure of the new book ideas that pop into your head pretty much daily. I think I was wrong. It is damn hard to have a lovely, shiny scene from an unrelated, as-yet unplanned…