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The other side of the river
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Mishaps, writing, more mishaps, comedy sprinkled with opinion
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Popping in…
To point out that David Tallerman lists Crunch amongst his favourites from the recent issue of Ballista. You can read David’s story, Feeler, and my story, Crunch, in the current and final issue of Ballista. Posted in Dark Fantasy, Horror, writi...
Painful
Sometimes lessons can be painful. I’m not sure exactly what I was thinking when I decided to engage in NaNoWriMo under the ballsy criteria I set myself in late October. I suspect that the growing dissatisfaction with how things had gone this year, ...
So yes…urm…no really: I’m this shade normally
Suffice to say things are not going well. Word count is around the 25k mark (some way behind) and as for podcasts…well the first chapter is up and the second should go up soon. But I’m not exactly setting the world on fire. However, I am ...
Eleutheria: Chapter 1
Time for an update. It’s now been a little over two weeks since my rash and foolish promise that I would podcast my NaNoWriMo exercise as I went. I confess that I was unsure it was wise at the time and let my general dissatisfaction with progre...
About that thing…
Just to let you know I haven’t forgotten about podcasting and indeed have chapter 1 sat, recorded, on my laptop. I have two main issues: 1. The quality of the recording (audio wise) isn’t as high as I’d hoped. 2. Hosting the damned ...
Crunch
I’m pleased to point out that Ballista issue 7 is now available to pre-order and contains my short story Crunch. This is Ballista’s final issue and, while I am naturally biased, it would be nice to send them off in style so please buy one. Hell, ...


Beowulf rocked! Did you hear that FREEK Energy Drink and Beowulf have teamed up. There is an online sweepstakes at FREEK.com (a pretty awesome site) where you can enter to win a private screening of Beowulf for you and 100 friends or a years supply of FREEK Energy Drink. Hurry up! The sweepstakes ends tomorrow!
Posted: November 28th, 2007 | Report This Comment