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New interview, with comedy excerpt

6/27/2013

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Just a quick one. There's a new interview with me up on Indie Author Land, which can be read here.

It mostly covers Journey to Altmortis, and the interviewer also has a cunning F1 suggestion when it comes to betting. At the end there's a link to the initial draft of the start of my short comedy. Although I've amended it slightly since then the start is very, very similar, and it gives a good indication of the central character and the general style of comedy used.

[For those wondering the comeyd's coming along pretty well. I've almost finished the full first draft, but there will, of course, but a couple of redrafts to come].

So, I hope you peruse the interview and enjoy the excerpt.

Thaddeus
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Two reviews and the first Chrons article

6/25/2013

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It's always nice getting reviews, and the delightful Bella of Boom Baby Reviews has cast her critical eye over Journey to Altmortis (review here).

It gets 4/5 fireballs, which I'm pretty pleased with, although 5* is always the aim, of course. Anja and Roger seem to have gone down well (a lovely lady reader via Twitter also approved of Anja).

Duane Vore has written a review (positive but without a rating) of Bane of Souls, which can be read here. I'm glad to read (both in this review and elsewhere) that the world-building seems to have gone down well. Bane of Souls is my first book, and also the first story I wrote with extensive background work beforehand to try and make the world coherent, integrated and credible.

Obviously, writing two books at once is not enough to keep me busy, so I've also taken the time to write a first article for the Chrons website: Grimdark isn't so grim.

There's still some more work to do on the background for Kingdom Asunder, but, apart from the map, I think that's work that can be done concurrently with the first draft. I'm also leaning towards calling the comedy Sir Edric and the Temple, or Sir Edric's Temple. Given the protagonist is the centre around which the comedy revolves it makes sense to have him in the title.

Thaddeus

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Just a little update

6/19/2013

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Happily, after sacrificing a goat to appease the wrath of almighty Zeus, the computer seems to be working.

I've done most of the first draft of Hornska (working title of the comedy) and have most of the rest vaguely planned. It's highly likely I'll add bits here and there (if nothing else I need a mini-revision to make a later chapter make sense).

Very grateful indeed to my beta readers for their comments and thoughts. Hopefully that'll help sharpen up the book significantly.

I still have a little more work to do for the background of Kingdom Asunder. Nothing too laborious, but things like naming major rivers and mountain ranges and adding a few bits of flora and fauna.

Comedy often seems to be very hard or very easy, so it'll be interesting to see how I fare when I return to serious writing. I'll probably start the first draft of Kingdom Asunder before Hornska is entirely finished.

I must admit, I'm itching to kill people off.

Thaddeus
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Forthcoming interview, links and techwoe

6/11/2013

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Things have been a bit tricky lately. Yesterday the computer took umpteen tries to actually start, today it was fine, tomorrow a tech chap comes to peer into its Neolithic interior. Hopefully it'll be a tiny problem that can immediately be fixed, but I may disappear for a time.

On a much happier note, an interview of myself should be up on http://www.indieauthorland.com/, a delightful site, with a date pencilled-in for 27 June. Obviously I'll promote it at the time if I can, but I thought I'd mention it now in case my computer explodes the day before.

I'm also going to do a little bit of trimming of this site. Including all the book-buying links on both the Links and Book Stuff tabs seems a little excessive (especially as there are so many), so I'm going to have them only on the Book Stuff tab from now on. Given that most people browsing this site have either bought or are at least aware of my books (Bane of Souls and Journey to Altmortis, to date)  I don't expect it to affect sales and it will make the site a bit tidier.

Progress has been a bit slower of late, partly due to the computer issues. I have made a start on Chapter 8 of the comedy, and although I've not written much I'm pretty happy with what's there. I'm also largely pleased with Ch7, although one scene at least needs a major rewrite (in solitude it works ok but it doesn't fit with the rest of the story).

Thaddeus
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Journey to Altmortis update and quiz

6/4/2013

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Good news!
Journey to Altmortis, my latest book, released in May, is now out at some more online retailers.

You can now buy it at Kobo, the iTunes store, or Barnes & Noble.

I've also created a small quiz on Goodreads (no spoilers), which can be found here.

Right now I'm working on the chapter-by-chapter plot outline of Kingdom Asunder, which is the working title of my next full novel. I'm also writing my first ever comedy, which will be a short book and hopefully out in time for Christmas.

Perhaps surprisingly running the two projects alongside one another is mostly working well. The variety of serious and funny, as well as world-building and writing a first draft, helps keep both sides of things fresh.

Anyway, I'll keep posting updates on both books (the comedy's tagged as Hornska for now, I don't have a title as yet) regularly.

Thaddeus


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