Tag: writing
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Connecting with my muse
I was taking a break, connecting with my muse I called it, when the castle was rocked by an explosion. Elves… don’t let them anywhere near magic.
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Grimmon’s New Book Covers
There’s a bone-aching chill in the air as I stare at the landscape over the battlements of Castle Silverhill. It isn’t a pleasant sight, what with a blood moon coating the surrounding dunes in crimson and burnishing the still surface of the moat gently eroding the castle’s foundations. I don’t like the look of the…
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The Chronicles Map
A cold wind gusts out of the night and whistles along the battlements of Castle Silverhill. It spatters icy raindrops against the leaded windows and sets them rattling in their casements. Tentacles of grey mist ooze from the moat and drift around the keep, probing the ancient stones for cracks and crevices, openings it can…
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Demons, Hollow Worlds and Suns
I’m lying awake in bed, unable to get to sleep. It’s those graveyard hours, the wee hours after midnight when the veil between worlds grows thin. Sharp, blood-encrusted claws of demons are scratching at the window and a long, pale arm, bony fingers tipped with cracked, yellow nails, reaches out from under my bed. Cold…
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How Low Can You Go?
When I was planning Flight of the Gazebo, the first book in the Hollow series, I wondered how the villagers of Amblesby would react when their entire village was magically relocated to a strange hollow world. Surely everyone would pull together, join forces to overcome the terrible situation in which they found themselves? I pondered this point…
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Train Yourself to Write
When I worked in London, I lived miles outside the UK’s capital city and spent many long hours commuting. I spent four hours on trains each working day. Two hours each way. What was I to do with that time? Read a book or a newspaper? Watch a movie on my phone or laptop? Stare…
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Novel outlining template for Scrivener
Free 24 chapter, 3 act Scrivener template (based on Derek Murphy’s original) for writing your next novel
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On the Air
At last we’re on the air! I’m excited to say the first two books in the Hollow Books series are available on Amazon. I published the first book Flight of the Gazebo in August and the second book Dangerous Ideals a few days ago. It was a nail biting time between the two books. Although…
