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16th April Prompt: Early morning mists
I don’t know where this came from, I used to have a bit of an obsession with the Peninsula War, so probably that influenced this story nugget. The men appeared out of the mist, early summer sun...
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17th April Prompt: Warm and Sunny
This one is actually complete, and is another of my little Peninsula War inspired pieces. “Pass the water.” Private Samuel Jones reached back to the man behind him on the wall. “We’re out.” Corporal...
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18th April Prompt: Dull and overcast
Last one for today. The next five prompts are location based, so that should spark something at least on a couple of days. I’ll have to see how it goes. I’m happy this evening. I will have money in the...
View ArticleHIDDEN FIRE progress report
I’m still planning to publish my book Hidden Fire this summer. I’ve made some progress. A couple of weeks ago I printed the whole book out and have been slowly editing. It took me the best part of two...
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I have finally got all the changes made to the text and now I’m getting Hidden Fire set up on CreateSpace – for the paperback – and KDP for the ebook. I hadn’t realised I could do both through KDP and...
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Hidden Fire Cover Reveal
It’s time! With many grateful thanks to the incredibly talented Michelle Conner, whose work I have shared here and here, I present to you the cover for my first novel, Hidden Fire. I am extremely...
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Ahh! Copies of my book have arrived!
A box of books turned up this afternoon. My books, ten of them. A lot sooner than I expected. I’ve sold four already, so the rest are for the book launch. I’m considering ordering more, but I haven’t...
View Article28th May Writing Prompt
Do you remember that writing prompt experiment I was trying in April? I only managed to get a few prompts written, for various reasons. I tried again this month, and failed miserably, but I have...
View ArticleOne of Our Assessors is Missing Chapter 2 – Lah-Shar’s thoughts
Alright! We’re back with Lah-Shar and Maria’s adventures. This time we get some insight into Lah-Shar’s life and thoughts. Chapter two – Lah-Shar Lah-Shar felt the air change as they came closer to...
View ArticleSubscribers Special: One Of Our Assessors is Missing, by Rosemarie Cawkwell
Hello, it’s the second Sunday of the month and this is the April instalment of my little story. Maria ponders the existence of a secret base. Chapter three – Maria Maria got to their feet, muscles...
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August Paid Subscriber Post
Did you know you can generate AI art images on WordPress? I didn’t but I wanted an image for this post, because Maria takes their investigation down to the planet of Aurox. Subscribe to get access...
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But it’s FantasyCon weekend, so I thought I’d share. To catch everyone up: Our protagonists, an autistic human named Maria and their supervisor, Lah-Shah, who is a member of an alien species known to...
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