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Spring is here and birds are out there doing what birds do – very noisily. Wildflowers are showing off, and all manner of creatures are out enjoying the sunshine. It’s been a beautiful day here and it inspired me to update my blog with the latest news. The Naiad post has been updated with the [Read more…] Contemporary Fantasy Novel, 583 pages. Available now, details below. Nereid The Narun – Book Three Whatever time John has left, he has dedicated it to finding Asha. Without that driving force he would still be sitting next to his corpse, waiting for death to catch up. But his friends will pay [Read more…] It’s been a busy couple of months, it’s always a busy time of year for me. As a result it has taken me more than a month to post here about an important milestone… On June 23rd I completed the first draft of my third book. This is the third and concluding book of my [Read more…] The road to hell, they tell us, is paved with good intentions. I must be well on my way. I started this blog with the best of intentions. A look around the internet quickly shows you that the most successful blogs are those that are updated regularly (having something interesting to say can help too [Read more…] It’s been a while since I’ve posted any news, so I thought it was time I did. I’ve received some very positive feedback on my early drafts of Naiad, and now I have to find the time to do another pass over the manuscript myself. But I’ve been putting that off. I want more progress [Read more…] It is not my intention to post regular book reviews here, but every now and then a worthy exception will appear. One such exception is “Liars & Outliers” by Bruce Schneier. Subtitled: “Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive”. (Cover image on the right from the author’s website.) As the title probably makes obvious, [Read more…] I went book shopping yesterday. I went to a real, enclosed-in-a-building containing lots of flammable material manufactured from wood pulp, book shop. Indeed I went to two. I went to a place that sold new books; their covers may have been sullied by the hands that placed them on the shelf, but their innermost secrets [Read more…] Three weeks ago my last news post said that Dryad was on its way. Well (drum-roll please) it’s here! I can see Dryad, both e-book and print editions, on enough sites now that I feel I can safely say that Dryad has arrived. And not only that, my very own box of the Dryad [Read more…] (To be read with Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” playing softly in the background; side three of the LPs for preference, that’s the first half of Disc 2 if you’re listening to the CDs, “Hey You” through “Comfortably Numb” if you’re using MP3s.) It’s a month since I launched my website. I’ve had exactly three comments, [Read more…] Dryad is prefixed with a quote from Plato’s The Republic, specifically his allegory of the cave. This is something I came across and re-read only after I was well in to writing the book. I can’t even remember what I was researching at the time, but it struck me as something that comes close to [Read more…] |
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