In between working to finish off a couple of short story collections, I’ve been doing some world building for an epic fantasy series that I’ve talked of before – The Oncoming Storm. Back some time ago I made a solid start to the first novel (almost 60K words) but it has been sitting idle for [...]
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Of Knights and Winged Hussars
Posted: May 28, 2012 in General, The Oncoming Storm, writingTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Knights, Winged Hussars, World Building, writing, writing update
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Writing Update
Posted: May 2, 2012 in fantasy, The Commonwealth Chronicles, writing, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, gunpowder fantasy, Short story, writing, writing update
Just a quick update on things. I’ve finished the rewrite of The Rose of Nakunwe, the followup to Dawn of Wolves and next short story in the Frontier Wolves collection. I want to finish off the one after that, an as yet unnamed short story that has been plotted but not yet started, before releasing [...]
Writing Update
Posted: February 14, 2012 in fantasy, The Commonwealth Chronicles, writing, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, Short story, The Commonwealth Chronicles, writing, writing update
The first rough draft of the next story has now been completed. The Rose of Nakunwe is a planned novelette which is next in The Commonwealth Chronicles series, forming part of The Frontier Wolves sub-series. The rewrite should be done by the end of the month. However I’m still debating what exactly to do with [...]
Dawn of Wolves Free Promotion
Posted: January 29, 2012 in Dawn of Wolves, fantasy, writingTags: amazon, fantasy, fantasy writing, gunpowder fantasy, kindle, writing, writing update
Dawn of Wolves is now up and ready to go on Amazon – and for the next five days it can be got for free, as part of the Kindle Select program.
Dawn of Wolves Completed
Posted: January 28, 2012 in Dawn of Wolves, fantasy, writingTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novella, writing
The Dawn of Wolves novella has finally been finished and uploaded via KDP to Amazon where it is currently being crunched and should make an appearance in a day or two. Dawn of Wolves comes in at 49,000 words, a little longer than a normal novella, but one I am calling a novella [...]
Dawn of Wolves Rewrite Complete
Posted: January 16, 2012 in Dawn of Wolves, fantasy, writing, writing updateTags: amazon, fantasy, fantasy writing, writing, writing update
I have finished the rewrite of Dawn of Wolves, ending at around 49,000 words, which is slightly over what is normally classified as a novella, but close enough I’ll still call it one. Now comes the next step – formatting, editing, proof reading and of course cover design. Hopefully that will not take too long. [...]
The Year Ahead
Posted: January 7, 2012 in Dawn of Wolves, writing, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, writing, writing update
With another year just started, it seems appropriate to look forward and try and set some goals. Basically it comes down to write more, publish more and promote more. And post more to the blog. On the writing/publishing more, it is off to a good start. I am up to the final rewrite/edit of Dawn [...]
Winter Wolves Redone
Posted: December 8, 2011 in winter wolves, writing, writing updateTags: amazon, fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, smashwords, winter wolves, writing, writing update
I have finally finished the re-edit of Winter Wolves. In addition it has received a new cover as well, in keeping with the others of the series. In addition to trying to fix up all spelling and grammatical errors that I could find, I also re-wrote the last 10,000 words. I had never been entirely [...]
Plans For The Rest Of The Year
Posted: November 23, 2011 in Dawn of Wolves, General, winter wolves, writing, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, winter wolves, writing, writing update
End of the year is rapidly approaching and I still have a few things on the list that I want to see done by then, so I’d better knuckle down and get them done. First up is to finish the re-edit/re-write of Winter Wolves. I’m down to the last 2K to go, so hopefully won’t [...]
Tears of the Mountain Redone
Posted: October 14, 2011 in fantasy, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, Tears of the Mountain, writing, writing update
The re-edit of Tears of the Mountain is now done, fixing up various little grammatical and spelling errors that hadn’t been caught previously. It also now has its new cover. The edited version is now up and working on Smashwords and is currently being published on Amazon, so should be ready to go in a [...]
