Category: Writing

  • Smashwords Formatting Guide

    EDIT: It’s 2024, so more than a decade later, although much of this information is still useable to create a clean file for Smashwords, things have changed, and I strongly recommend looking at more up to date guides as well. Ok, it’s not a clever title, but that’s what it…

  • Long Time No Somethingorother…

    I’ve been moving stuff for nearly two weeks, and not doing much else, so I’ve had very little to blog about. Not that I blog much anyway. But I thought I should update a bit. At the weekend, I took up another shipment of books to Waterstones. The manager had…

  • Witty & Clever Christmassy Title

    Yes, my post titles are getting worse. I think ten days was enough of a break. Now that Temple of the Sixth is out, I have started work on the third novel of the NEXUS series – with the working title of Rise of the Fallen. Yes, it appears every…

  • Temple of the Sixth

    The second book in the NEXUS science fantasy series is now available! I might even give a second exclamation mark to it -> ! Presently it is available for Kindle on Amazon (UK and US) and for all other E-formats on Smashwords. Over the coming days, it will become available…

  • A Quickie

    Let’s see how many people that title brings in! I haven’t posted for a while, so I thought I would make a quick one to update everyone. Shadow of the Wraith is now sitting on the shelves of both Eason in Derry and Waterstones in Coleraine (both Northern Ireland). Although…

  • For any writers that read my blog. In fact, for anyone, since this is disgraceful.

  • Meet Juni

    This is Juni: She does not like long walks on beaches, but she does like romantic candlelight dinners, because it’s that much easier to vanish into the shadows. She also likes long, sharp knives. This portrait comes from the scene in Shadow of the Wraith, where Travis Archer goes to…

  • Updates and Peanuts

    Disclaimer: There are no peanuts involved in this post. I can’t think of much to write about, so I’ll just update y’all – to be momentarily American – on stuff and whatnot. First off, I am in Underground Book Review’s Self-Published Author Awards, and I joined late, so I have…

  • The Next Big Thing

    Well, I’ve been tagged in this blog tag thingy. I refuse to admit just how long it took me to work out just what was happening, and why I’d been tagged, and what I was meant to do about it. It involves answering questions about one’s current project. We then…

  • Kira…again

    Kira is now available on Amazon and Smashwords, for just 99c/75p! Kira is a steampunk short story/novella of just over 13,000 words. Kira’s town has so far survived the destruction wrought by the Government on so many others. But for how much longer? In the middle of a blistering desert,…