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Release Date Confirmed
Some books are like cheese. You just gotta age ’em right. Make sure they smell just right. If you want to make a book…ok-ish, then sure, any old date will do, but if you want a Fantastic book, then you...
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The quest for covers and heat dissipation
Everyone who has followed the Elite:Dangerous journey will be familiar with the word ‘soon’. Its a word used to describe a variable length of time and that my friends is how far away the cover is for...
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Did someone order a book cover?
Last week I posted about the book cover, saying that it was ‘super soon’. Three hours after the post went live, I received the cover through email. There’s two ways of looking at that. IF it had come...
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Fantastic Elite Fiction hits the net
ELITE:AND HERE THE WHEEL Elite:And Here The Wheel has been with its backers now for over a week and I’ve already had feedback from a few people who have finished it. The novel has been described as a...
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My Elite Journey
I have a confession to make. The first story I ever wrote wasn’t Elite – it was Short Circuit. And my teacher was so impressed she lined the book with wall paper and made me read it out in front of...
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Where the heck have I been?
Yes, I’ve been a bit quiet lately, but I’ve been working hard. And Here The Wheel has been out for nearly two months now. It was the last of the five Fantastic Elite Fiction books to receive a major...
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Mapping out the Novel
Cliche time: Every cloud has a silver lining. The rotator cuff has four different muscles in it and one of them has been a bit ‘iffy’ for the last few weeks. I’ve been managing it as I do my gym...
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Audiobook – And Here The Wheel – Coming Soon
It’s coming! Elite: And Here The Wheel – the audiobook should be ready for purchase by February 2015. But that’s not the good news. The Audiobook was recorded back in February of this year by the...
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The Final Rush before the New Year
It’s all pretty damn full on at the moment. Work is finished for the year, but I’ve got two kids to look after and a whole bunch of writing stuff happening. Read on…. —— MY NEWEST PROJECT: Everything...
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Elite:And Here The Wheel – now out in Audiobook
Drum Roll. . . . Ahh, screw it. Let’s just get on with it. Elite:And Here The Wheel in Audiobook form is now here, available for purchase from Fantastic Books Publishing. This is the final step in a...
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Shallow Space Alpha Imminent, Free Fiction for Background Flavour
STEAM EARLY ACCESS Note the date in your diary: 21 October 2015. This is the day we will activate ‘Early Access’ on Steam for Shallow Space. This is the culmination of 18 months of work, though is...
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Fiction news plus free stuff
Cover for the latest Shallow Space story, ‘Paradijs Lost’ I’ve been spending more time at the hospital than in front of the computer screen recently but thought it’s been a while since I did an update...
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Background New Aberdeen
(A little backstory on the home of Robert Garry, the protagonist from And Here The Wheel) New Aberdeen of the Arouca system has a lower than average temperate climate with spacious islands surrounded...
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Background – Skardree IV
body { line-height: 1.5; } p { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 2em; } (Another background post this week – this time the desert world Skardree IV which Robert Garry visits in the novel ‘And Here The...
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Background – Villist
body { line-height: 1.5; } p { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 2em; } (More background on And Here The Wheel – this time the planet Villist, a place where Robert Garry’s life was turned upside down in...
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How an Ice Planet became a Trash Planet
body { line-height: 1.5; } p { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 2em; } (Note: this post has story spoilers, read at your peril) It’s not a joke, but it might illuminate my writing process a little....
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Drabble –“Sniffing Gas”
body { line-height: 1.5; } p { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 2em; } (FULL POINTS IF YOU FIGURE OUT THE LINK TO THE NOVEL) The clouds churned beneath the mining platform. Ruby, sapphire, a splash of...
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Audiobook – And Here The Wheel – Coming Soon
It’s coming! Elite: And Here The Wheel – the audiobook should be ready for purchase by February 2015. But that’s not the good news. The Audiobook was recorded back in February of this year by the...
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The Final Rush before the New Year
It’s all pretty damn full on at the moment. Work is finished for the year, but I’ve got two kids to look after and a whole bunch of writing stuff happening. Read on…. —— MY NEWEST PROJECT: Everything...
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Elite:And Here The Wheel – now out in Audiobook
Drum Roll. . . . Ahh, screw it. Let’s just get on with it. Elite:And Here The Wheel in Audiobook form is now here, available for purchase from Fantastic Books Publishing. This is the final step in a...
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