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Month: June 2012

June 16, 2012August 16, 2015

Instrument No 1 (extract)

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Recent Posts: These Fantastic Worlds

Micro-fiction 032 – Two Faces (Gothic series)

Was family lunchtime ever like this? The family gathered, dressed on their fine white clothes, but Patsy bears a frustrated frown… “Can’t you see what’s happening around you?” Patsy yells, inside her head. It is Sunday. While not being a religious family, they do observe a long tradition of polite lunchtime gathering. Patsy’s father, his bloated body dressed in an …

Micro-fiction 031 – The Three Laws (Robot series)

Robots were designed to help humanity. But what happens if Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics become irrelevant? By 2030 most governments passed legislation allowing the use of robots in laboratory experiments. Their precision and lack of emotion was recognised as the primary benefit. And they required no sleep, so productivity rose exponentially. By 2035 robots had acquired so much bio-chemical …

Micro-fiction 030 – Shaman (Echoes Series)

On a blue planet, somewhere in the region of Barnard’s Star, in someone’s future, and somebody else’s past. In the dark mountains the chanting beat at the walls of the red cave. It had echoed through the catacombs for days, and would continue for more than a hundred years. That night the moon had wept blood. A dark stain red …

Journey to Self-Publishing 03

If we needed reminding, life has a way of telling you how difficult it can be to fit in the writing amongst all the other stuff. I’ve had a tough couple of weeks with work, late nights, 90 hour weeks, preparing for a trade show. I have asthma and am used to the daily fight of it, but this week …

Journey to Self-Publishing 02

Another week of stolen time and sneaky reading on self-publishing and I’m beginning to separate the facts from the fallacies, the strategy from the tactics, the ideals from the possibles. It’s easy to be seduced by the talk of multi-million sales online (Looking at recent stats from the latest Author Earnings report (See links section below), the wave of self-published …

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