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A Glorious Month

This post is by way of a small update really, rather than anything earth-shattering. I thought you might like to know that A Long Time Dead has finally been made perma-free by Amazon UK, a year or so after it went free in the US. This has been great news for fans of...

Scene Structure

Today I was asked if there is a specific purpose behind the structure of my novels, specifically The Third Rule and Black by Rose. Yes. There is. And you have to bear in mind that although I’m on my tenth novel, I’m still developing – and I suppose I will until I turn...

Shorts in July

Forgive me, reader, for it has been almost a month since my last blog post. And likewise, that’s roughly how long I’ve been away from any meaningful interaction on social media. I still checked in every now and then, but for the most part, when I got the chance, I...

A Roundup…

This month I turned 50 years old. In truth it doesn’t feel any different to being 49, and it doesn’t feel any different to being 36 either. Remember in The Matrix how Neo discovered his Residual Self Image (the way you think of yourself, and probably the...

To Hell With It…

I’ve seen it often, where writers become disillusioned with ‘writing’. But they’re not disillusioned with writing they’re disillusioned because of the marketing that attaches itself to their favourite typing finger like a… well, I’ll leave it to your imagination. We...

New Covers

And so today finally sees an end to the revamp of the Barrett book covers. I’ve enjoyed learning a little bit about image manipulation, though it must be pretty obvious to those cover designers and graphic artists out there that these are just the doodlings of...