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Pantophobia
I flogged one of my books to a lad I know at work, who has limited interest in my soap opera style epic fantasy, but has a missus who loves the stuff. She's a big Dave Eddings fan, and as my book has...
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Lydia and the love of Ink
Of all the strange fashions and things that have changed over my moderate span on this fair earth none fascinate me quite as much as tattoos. When I was a kid (in the Seventies) tattoos were generally...
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To Infinity...and back again
About a year and a half ago, when the kids got sick of me saying my fantasy books were too violent for them to read, I decided to write a book targeted at teens (nominally referred to as YA... young...
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Swamps and Sorcerers
I don't often post about my books or writing on here, mainly because there's more interesting things to rant about. However, when there's a new cover to show off, I just canna help meself.Darkness...
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Alternative Guide to Alternative Reality 3... Comics!
Read Part one of the blog at Life in the Realm of FantasyAnd hop over like an excited Bunny to part two at Fresh Pot of Tea And now for part three..... If I were a dishonest man (and the admission that...
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There and back again, and again, and...
First of all, an apology. It’s been over two months since my last confession, sorry, blog post. You know how it is—xmas, work (the one that pays the bills), some writing/editing/proof reading. And I’ve...
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Farm Boy Fantasy
So I'm reading this great book at the moment, Tower of Bones by Connie Jasperson. The premise is that a young lad is the next in the line for a family of mages who uniquely combine abilities of...
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Re-Boots
Despite my earlier assurance that I would dedicate more time to maintaining this wondrous blog, I find myself yet again with a gaping hole between posts. The obvious excuse is that life has been crazy...
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Swords, sorcery and...sand
It seems like an age since I last released some work, but its only been seven months. Perhaps its the wealth of stuff I've squeezed in that time, or perhaps its because of other projects and...
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Ice-cream and Internet-voids
Just returned from a week away in the wondrous climes of South Devon and, surprisingly for the UK the weather was actually acceptable (for us this means only half the days begin with...
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Darkness is Rising again
The latest installment in my six-part epic fantasy Darkness Rising hits the virtual bookshelves today, on the Mryddin Publishing Group label. It picks up the story with Emelia, Jem, Hunor and...
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I am rather an expert on that....
Much in the way I never now watch any film rated more than 12 at the cinema, and indeed actively seek out Pixar productions to watch (‘Up’and ‘Finding Nemo’ are incredible films), my TV watching home...
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Sixty Shades of Sorcery
One of the coolest things about fantasy (and there’s a sentence that before HBO’s gore and shag-a-thon, Game of Thrones, would have never been written) is the wide variety of how magic is perceived in...
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Wardrobes and warriors
One of the key themes in my YA book is the idea of alternate worlds, namely worlds that exist in parallel to our own. For a writer this is a perfect device, as it is remarkably versatile in the way it...
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Flayed men and felines
One of the things I thought I'd do on the blog was post book reviews when I uploaded them to other sites. About half of what I read I review for the great site Fantasy Book Reviews, the other half are...
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I thought a short story would make a nice change- and something contemporary even more so...The Word Thief By Ross M Kitson Words are all we have. I think it was Samuel Beckett who wrote that and for...
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Chaos in Conflict - CSM vs CSM
So after 18 months of playing Warhammer with my lad, Charlie, I finally had my first game against someone not related to me and able to call on the unbeatable reserves of his mum. Having said that,...
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Its a rarity that i get to the cinema these days. With three kids with divergent ages its difficult to find common films, and when me and t'wife get some time off together the last thing we want to do...
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The Doom of the Eldar- WH 40k Batrep
So, me and Iain played a game of 40k yesterday supported by our respective sons. It was my second game of 7th edition, so still finding my feet with Psyker rules etc.We played 2.5k points with Taudar...
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Denise E Kitson 1947-2014: a Eulogy
It was my Mum's funeral today and I had the honour of reading a short eulogy to the mourners. I kind of wanted to put it somewhere permanent and personal, so the blog seemed the right place to do this....
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