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Update on Edits and Covers

Posted: October 1, 2011 in fantasy, Tears of the Mountain, winter wolves, writing update
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I’ve finally got the re-edits of all the short stories completed and now have the hard part to go – the re-edit of the two novels. The first, Tears of the Mountain, will be the easiest given it is just a grammar/spelling check, but Winter Wolves will take a while longer as there is a large section I want to rewrite, given I was never entirely happy with it.

In the meantime I have to finish working on some new covers. I have some done so far, but there are plenty more to update to the new and improved style. Here are the ones done so far.

And finally, when that is all done, I can return to the 2/3rds done Dawn of Wolves.

The Chronicles of the White Bull #3

Posted: September 21, 2011 in fantasy, writing, writing update
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The third pair of novelettes in The Chronicles of the White Bull collection is finally done and published. I’d been wavering on them for some time before deciding to just go ahead with it. Entitled Legions of the Sand & Night’s of Fire, it can be found at Smashwords or Amazon. As can be seen it has an improved cover over the previous books – they will be getting an upgrade shortly to match the new one.

So far I am about half way through the editing of all the old short stories. Once that is done it will be time to give them new covers, and then it is back to working on Dawn of Wolves and also the re-edit of the two novels. And then it will be time to go into the collection of other story ideas to find new ones to work on.

Re-Editing Update

Posted: September 8, 2011 in Dawn of Wolves, fantasy, Pure Escapism, writing, writing update
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Just an update on the process of re-editing all the old stories – so far two have been done. The Tomb of the Tagosa Kings and The Adventures of Ray the Robot have now had a go over trying to fix any errors that fell through the cracks previous times. I also gave The Adventures of Ray the Robot a new and slightly improved cover.

The other stories will slowly get the same editing process.

Also, the next two Nhaqosa short stories are getting close to being finished, and after that it will be time to finish Dawn of Wolves.

More news from The Hobbit

Posted: July 23, 2011 in fantasy, General
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If you head over to Peter Jackson’s facebook page, he has added further material relating to the upcoming The Hobbit movies. In particular are two new production videos, and also photos of all thirteen dwarves – Thorin, Balin, Dwalin, Kili, Fili, Oin, Gloin, Ori, Nori, Dori, Bifur, Bofur and Bombur – in all their glory.

They are trying for a unique look for each of them, and there is debate about whether all of them are suitably dwarvish, especially regarding beards (or lack of length there of) and especially Kili. He seems to be getting the Legolas treatment, being the ‘pretty’ one of the dwarven band.

Dwarves have always been at the top of my favourite fantasy races (in the top four alongside minotaurs, trolls and phoenixes) so I’m very much looking forward to seeing them in action. It also has me hankering to write something with dwarves in it – proper bearded, hard as nails dwarves.

Another Review

Posted: May 29, 2011 in fantasy, Pure Escapism, Reviews
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Received my first review on Amazon for The Pit & The Merchant’s Legacy pairing of short stories since it went up on there for free. Come out of the blue unexpected – and was given 5/5 stars. Hopefully that’ll help stir some more interest – and helps me get on to write the next short stories/novelettes in the series.

The Pit Reviewed

Posted: May 21, 2011 in fantasy, Pure Escapism
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Over on Book Brouhaha, a site dedicated to the short story, The Pit got reviewed, receiving 4/5 stars, which is high praise indeed given most short stories reviewed there seem to get a lower rating.

An Amazon Offer – The Pit & The Merchant’s Legacy

Posted: May 12, 2011 in fantasy, Pure Escapism
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I received an email the other day from Amazon stating that they were going to price match one of my works – in this case The Pit & The Merchant’s Legacy, a collection of the first two fantasy short stories revolving around Nhaqosa the Minotaur. Given it is up currently for free on Smashwords, they were going to offer it for free as well. They do this periodically for a small number of books, so to be selected is a great boon towards getting noticed.

So far, in less than 24 hours, there have been almost 500 downloads. the hope is that it will help generate some reviews and even maybe have a few people buy the follow up pair of novelettes.

It would also seem an ideal time to strike while the iron is hot and try and finish off some more stories for the series – the next two stories I have ideas and plans for, though the aim is to get all 10 done and compiled as soon as possible.

Conan the Barbarian: The Movie

Posted: May 7, 2011 in fantasy, General
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The first theatrical trailer for the new Conan the Barbarian movie has been released, the one starring Jason Momoa, not Arnold, which is due out Aug 19th.

As a big fan of Robert E Howard’s works, I am looking forward to this – it looks more true to the source material than Arnold’s version did.

The trailer can be seen over here.

The Future of the White Bull

Posted: May 5, 2011 in fantasy, Pure Escapism, writing, writing update
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I’ve been doing some planning on the future of The Chronicles of the White Bull collection of stories and have come up with a bit of a outline.

In all, including the four stories written so far, there are going to be ten in total. The next four will be written and released in pairs, like the first four, and then I’ll read a prologue and epilogue story, the start and the end of Nhaqosa’s story, and release them all as an anthology, comparable in length to a full novel. Hopefully I’ll even be able to get some proper artwork for the cover. Of the remaining six I have plans or have started writing four of them.

While doing all that I’ll also be working on the Peregrine and Blade stories, but once the Nhaqosa series is done I’ll be starting on a new one – The Halir Ashford Expeditions. Halir Ashford, professor, explorer, historian and adventurer, was just meant to be a bit character to help the plot in a story that barely got started before it was set aside but Halir survived and thrived, and is a central character in two novelettes (The Tomb of the Tagosa Kings & Gifts and Sacrifices) and both novels (Tears of the Mountains & Winter Wolves), as well as being in an unfinished novellas (Dawn of Wolves). The collection he will be in will help flesh out the history, both past and present, of the world of Sharael.

Now just to get it all written…

A Five Star Winter Wolves Review

Posted: April 2, 2011 in fantasy, winter wolves
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Picked up my first 5 star review for Winter Wolves over on Smashwords – pretty stoked about that.

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