Adverbial Analysis
“I can’t believe it,” I told my writing group angrily, waving my iPad at them melodramatically. “My online critique colleagues said that my writing had too many adverbs!”
Publication News! – “The Peripheral People”
I have a short story published! ‘The Peripheral People’ is in the current issue, 63, of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. It’s also the sequel to ‘The Torgaine of Ysengarth’, a story I wrote back in 2006. However, you don’t need…
The City of Tomorrow, Chapter 1
I’ve got the first chapter of my novel here to tempt people into reading the entire thing and sending me feedback. It’s an urban fantasy, about a detective investigating the murder of a city. The entire MS is about 120K…
The Case of the Infodumping Suspect
My current project is a fantasy-ish detective novel, written in the first person. Currently I’ve got the problem where the detective finds a suspect and has to get a large chunk of information from them. There’s a couple of ways…
Sara Douglass (1957-2011)
I heard that Sara Douglass passed away from cancer. I first noticed her book ‘BattleAxe’ with a highly garish cover, at the old Angus & Robertson at the top of the Queen Street Mall. (Last time I went there, that…
