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A plan.
As my mates and wife would gladly tell you, outside work I am shit at planning. How shit you ask? “What are we doing outside Moscow – in winter – with only our summer kit?” that shit. This is strange...
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Self publishing – an outsider’s primer.
A warning before we start, hard data on anything about publishing seems pretty much impossible to find. Especially as half the chumps writing on the subject are either trying to scam your coin or...
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Well covered.
With Conflux coming up, I asked a mate in advertising to do me up a cover for Game Bird. This is what he came up with. Needless to say I’m very impressed (ecstatic some would say). It’s amazing to see...
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Alexander and the fantasy hero*.
Three separate things have teased out this half thought through blog post. They are; On Friday I went along to the Alexander the Great exhibition at the Australian Museum (awesome and open till April...
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A very belated Conflux post.
What seems like an age ago now, I headed down to Canberra for Conflux 9. This is my very quick wrap. For the TL:DR crowd; 1. It was awesome. If you are even marginally interested in writing SFF, sell a...
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Pitching your novel.
At Conflux back in April I had my first experience pitching a novel. Generally before I do anything like this, I have a bit of a snoop about the interwebs and do some research and prep. In this case,...
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A Regency (or steampunk) primer.
I’ve always loved the period from 1775-1815*. These 40 turbulent years take us from the beginning of the War of Independence, through the French Revolution and Regency Period, to the death of the First...
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Guest blog.
After a long (and naughty) break from blogging, I’ve done a guest blog for my fantastic writing teacher, Karen Whitelaw. You can find it here;...
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Buster’s Plots
The other day I went to see the band Blue Grassy Knoll play a live accompaniment to Buster Keaton’s The General. A silent movie isn’t the kind of thing I’d normally go to, but my dad had bought tickets...
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My Blog Hop – my approach to writing
Sooooo, after an extremely long and naughty hiatus (shaaadup, writing a novel) the lovely Di, who blogs here, tagged me in this blog hop. Some of the other members of my writing group have also...
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War and fantasy
Tolkien’s Battle of the Five Armies and War of the Ring and Lewis’ battles against the White Witch set the warlike tone in the early days of the fantasy genre. Not much has change since then. Warfare...
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Whose rocket?
< Edit. I’ve now conducted brief demographic studies on Best Novella, Best Novelette and Best Short Story. Main page for these little studies is here. > On Twitter today I made a remark to the...
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Hugo Demographics – Best Novella.
In this post I look at the demographics (sex and nationality) of the winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novella. I originally only intended to cover Best Novel, so sorry if things are a little...
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Hugo Demographics – Best Novelette.
In this post I look at the demographics (sex and nationality) of the winners of the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. I originally only intended to cover Best Novel, so sorry if things are a little...
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Hugo Demographics – Best Short Story.
In this post I look at the demographics (sex and nationality) of the winners of the Hugo Award for Best Best Short Story. I originally only intended to cover Best Novel, so sorry if things are a little...
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The Rocket Crew
Unless you’re a hermit or living under a rock, you’d know that here has been a huge amount of talk(*) about the Hugo Awards lately. Arguments about the award have filled my feed for weeks. I’m curious,...
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Hugo Demographics – Best Novel Nominations
This blog is a brief study of the demographics of the Hugo Award for Best Novel nominees and winners. You can find my detailed study of just the winners here. A general parent page for my work on the...
View ArticleReunification – a short story
A Brief Introduction. This was the first piece of my writing that did well, so it has a special place in my heart. I entered it into the Conflux 9 (2013 Natcon) short story competition and was lucky...
View ArticleThe Game Bird sets sail…
I’m incredibly pleased that The Game Bird is finally released! You can grab it here on Amazon. A special thanks to the team at Damonza for such a beautiful cover and layout. The final blurb goes like...
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