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It feels like Fatal Glitch has new meaning this month when we've hit twenty degrees Celsius in February - in the UK! It reminds me to get back into my edits too, so that's the plan for March. I've spent a lot of this month making the most of the weather in the garden, getting it ready for spring and starting off seedlings indoors. I've also been reading and commenting on the novels of the two alpha readers I swapped books with. One has given me their feedback, which brings me

It's been a busy month between work and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This year I managed to write 50,739 words on my sci-fi prequel to the Courage Colony books, Fatal Glitch. It's an extremely rough draft with a lot of padding on one hand and some scenes which will need to be fleshed out on the other. In other words, the rewrite is going to take a while... but I'm still celebrating! I'm also pleased that twice this month I managed to write over 5,000 words in one

What are you on about?! Okay, celebration dance done and a well deserved drink in hand, I can announce I finally have a full draft for The Approach, the first novel in the Courage Colony series. What is this book and what's it about? Well, here's the blurb: When nanites consumed our solar system, they killed every human they infected. Only one ship escaped. They named it ‘Courage’. Errai Avila is the biological child of her parents, and shunned for it. She’s an unwelcome anom

Book Trailer: Those of you that have been keeping up to date with these posts know this has been a while coming, but the day is finally here. The Russian Sleep Experiment is live on Amazon in ebook and paperback formats. Links below: Kindle US ($3.10) Kindle UK (£1.99) Paperback US ($5.99) Paperback UK (£3.99) There is of course the option to look inside before you take the plunge of buying this psychological horror novella, and f

What's to come... The final edit is done, the lights are dimming, the website to record this phenomenon is almost complete. This horror novella is coming... The experiment has begun. The next few months will bring a series of images created by Daniel Tyka and short extracts from the novella to go with them. The website will soon be launched to feature the book and images on a dedicated URL. Be ready! The Details... A timeline will be put together between me and the publisher,

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Everything is coming along nicely with The Russian Sleep Experiment novella. I finished the first draft of the part 3 at the end of the Chistmas holidays - around 2 weeks ago - and yesterday I sent my edit of this section to the publisher for their edit. It feels like everything is coming together! The publisher and I have even seen a rough first draft of the front cover and the composition and atmosphere is already striking. I can't wait to see what the artist comes up with

Those who have read my Upcoming Releases page know I've been working on a Novella which follows and extends the story of The Russian Sleep Experiment. Yesterday I finished editing part II. It needs one final read through and then I am on to writing the final third of the story, where minds get twisted without the obvious chemical influence of Gas 76-IA. (Fictional) researchers, prisoners and civilians will be and have been harmed in the making of this narrative. I have tried