Writing the good fight and hopefully not writing wrongs!
Last updated SatFeb1426
This is the sister website to Ian Wood's Novellum where I used to blog book reviews, but since I reached 5,000 reviews (give or take), I decided to retire from reviewing. I'm still reading; I'm just not gabbing about what I read anymore. The time I save on not reviewing any more books, I'll expend on more creative pursuits. I'm thinking-up ideas for stories far faster than ever I can write them so I really need the extra time. Either that or another six hands, three more brains, and three more computers.
Anyway: this is the place to come for updates on my novels, for rambling about writing them, for sneak peaks and sample chapters, and that's been taking shape. All of the children's, middle-grade, young adult, and adult-oriented novels I've written are available on Barnes and Noble, and Google books (hereinafter referred to as the Dynamic Duo). I refuse to do business with Amazon or with Kobo Books, so you will never find my novels there. As far as Apple is concerned, older work is available there but I've decided not to publish anything new on Apple because they seem to delight in placing obstacles in the way of publishing. And they used to be leaders in the creative world. How far have they fallen huh?
An updated version of Marvel's Collapsing Universe, my only non-fiction work, is now available. It has been updated for Wonder Man and the X-Men movies.
Henry Jekyll's Reform Clinic is published and will be available on the Dynamic Duo. It's 102,000 words and would be 356 pages if it wre released in a full-sized print edition.
My attention is now focused on three new projects! Like two wasn't enough. One is a fantasy story, which has 32,000 words so far. The second is a parody, which has 22,000. The third is a serial killer detective novel which currently has 43,000 words, and thereby hangs a story! I shall be writing these three in tandem, and they're all going well. I'm thinking the serial killer is likely to be finished first, followed by the fantasy, with the parody last. It does feel a bit like a setback, going from a 102,000 word finished novel to starting a new project, let alone three, but I've done this kind of thing so many times now, that it isn't remotely disheartening for me to start over, especially when the original two were already going so well, and then I discover a third story which already had over 30,000 words in it. I'd put it aside some time ago, and forgotten just how much I'd already written! Off we go again!
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