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Baba Yaga's hut, perhaps.
Does it get up and go for a walk on chicken legs during the dead of the night?
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Baba Yaga's hut, perhaps.
Does it get up and go for a walk on chicken legs during the dead of the night?
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#PennedPossibilities 1093 — Name something you love about your MC.
Nathan isn’t your standard action hero; he’s not a fighter so he’s content to let Vicky handle that role.
In return Vicky will go to any lengths to keep Nathan alive.
All in all, they’re both deeply devoted to each other, and use their complimentary skills to work as a nicely balanced team.
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#PennedPossibilities 1093 — Name something you love about your MC.
Nathan isn’t your standard action hero; he’s not a fighter so he’s content to let Vicky handle that role.
In return Vicky will go to any lengths to keep Nathan alive.
All in all, they’re both deeply devoted to each other, and use their complimentary skills to work as a nicely balanced team.
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#WordWeavers 8/7 What part of your world-building came together almost effortlessly?
The idea of the Hounds, led by the appropriately named Drummond, policing the magical community on behalf of the Council.
It was a no-brainer to deck then out with voluminous, bad-ass overcoats to cover the small arsenal of weapons they carry, along with their all-black Range Rovers complete with tinted windows.
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#WordWeavers 8/7 What part of your world-building came together almost effortlessly?
The idea of the Hounds, led by the appropriately named Drummond, policing the magical community on behalf of the Council.
It was a no-brainer to deck then out with voluminous, bad-ass overcoats to cover the small arsenal of weapons they carry, along with their all-black Range Rovers complete with tinted windows.
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#WordWeavers 8 Aug: Which character would survive a zombie apocalypse, and why?
It’s not something I’ve really thought about as I’m not particularly fond of the modern take on Zombies.
If zombies were to feature in my work they’d have to be the good old-fashioned Zombies from Haitian folklore.
There seems to be a trend where they’re pitted against all sorts of different protagonists, usually with a title along the lines of XXX versus zombies or zombies versus XXX, so practitioners of magic versus zombies wouldn’t be too far-fetched.
I reckon the zombies would lose hands down.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 8th Aug ~ In your works, when the subaltern speaks, who listens?
I guess that would be Thompson, one of the Hounds.
Formerly part of the duo known as Thompson and Thomson before his partner was killed.
His is the voice of experience so when he says something everybody listens, even Bruce his protégé and, surprisingly, Nathan who’s not known for taking advice.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 8th Aug ~ In your works, when the subaltern speaks, who listens?
I guess that would be Thompson, one of the Hounds.
Formerly part of the duo known as Thompson and Thomson before his partner was killed.
His is the voice of experience so when he says something everybody listens, even Bruce his protégé and, surprisingly, Nathan who’s not known for taking advice.
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Just for a change the Indecisive Cat has actually decided to do something other than oscillate between the two fence posts it usually sits on.
It’s daringly ventured further into our garden and settled down underneath a chair.
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Just for a change the Indecisive Cat has decided to do something other than oscillate between the two fence posts it usually sits on.
It’s daringly ventured further into our garden and settled down underneath a chair.
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#PennedPossibilities 1092½ #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot : Quality time, your MC/MCs has a day off tomorrow, what do they do?
Nathan and Vicky would choose to have breakfast in bed followed my some amorous together time.
Then they’d be off out for a light lunch and perhaps visit a few shops, clothing shops for Vicky, and antiques shops for Nathan as he can never resist trying to track down artefacts even on his day off.
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#PennedPossibilities 1092½ #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot : Quality time, your MC/MCs has a day off tomorrow, what do they do?
Nathan and Vicky would choose to have breakfast in bed followed my some amorous together time.
Then they’d be off out for a light lunch and perhaps visit a few shops, clothing shops for Vicky, and antiques shops for Nathan as he can never resist trying to track down artefacts.
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I reckon you're in for a treat with Body Work.
I recently picked up a boxed set containing the first three volumes of the Rivers of London graphic novels for a bargain price.
I’m trying to figure out how I can eke out reading them for maximum enjoyment.
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Just found that cartoon I mentioned.
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Just found that cartoon I mentioned.
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That's right, he did one featuring a city gent crossing the road holding his arm out to stop a bubble car from proceeding.
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That's right, he did one featuring a city gent crossing the road holding his arm out to stop a bubble car from proceeding.
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One the characters in my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence, Cassie, is a Gothic Belly dancer she, has an extremely high metabolism.
Despite being of a petite stature she packs away the calories at a prolific rate to fuel her dancing.
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My Word of the Day today is APOSEMATISM. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments!
That’s just showing off and trying to draw attention to yourself, how distasteful!
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#WritersCoffeeClub 7th August 2026: What subcultures exist in your work?
Following on from yesterday’s prompt, the Magic Christians are a significant subculture in my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence.
A group of clerics who embrace the supernatural aspects of Christianity, seeking out relics like pieces of the True Cross.
It's been said there were enough pieces of it to build a ship.#WritersOfMastodon #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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#WritersCoffeeClub 7th August 2026
What subcultures exist in your work?
Follows on from yesterday’s prompt, the Magic Christians are a significant subculture in my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence.A group of clerics who embrace the supernatural aspects of Christianity, seeking out relics like pieces of the True Cross. It's been said there were enough pieces of it to build a ship.
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James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician, illusionist, and scientific sceptic was born on this day in 1928.
He wrote about paranormal phenomena, scepticism, and the history of magic. Before Randi's retirement his foundation sponsored the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, which offered a prize of $1 million to applicants who could demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.
Famously Randi viewed Uri Geller as a con-man and went to great effort to expose him as a fraud.One of the characters in my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence, debunks reports of phenomena connected to magic and the supernatural on social media under the name of The Amazing Randy, an approximation of Randi’s stage name.
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James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician, illusionist, and scientific sceptic was born on this day in 1928.
He wrote about paranormal phenomena, scepticism, and the history of magic. Before Randi's retirement his foundation sponsored the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, which offered a prize of $1 million to applicants who could demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.
Famously Randi viewed Uri Geller as a con-man and went to great effort to expose him as a fraud.One of the characters in my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence, debunks reports of phenomena connected to magic and the supernatural on social media under the name of The Amazing Randy, an approximation of Randi’s stage name.
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My Word of the Day today is STRATIFIED. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments!
One of my characters, Lucy, the Emergency Response Archaeologist would have a field day with this one.
You could say she’d dig it, as there’s nothing she likes more than scrabbling about in the dirt uncovering all kinds of layers in search of items of archaeological interest one stratum at a time.
She'd take one look at your photo and then accurately date each of the layers she can see.
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#PennedPossibilities 1092: Do others get frightened when your SC is angry?
The secondary character most likely to invoke fear in others would be Vicky’s mum, Esther.
She’s a member of the Council and the nearest thing the witches and Wiccans have to a high priestess.
A woman of a certain age, she can be quite intimidating when she puts her mind to it.
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#PennedPossibilities 1092: Do others get frightened when your SC is angry?
The secondary character most likely to invoke fear in others would be Vicky’s mum, Esther.
She’s a member of the Council and the nearest thing the witches and Wiccans have to a high priestess.
A woman of a certain age, she can be quite intimidating when she puts her mind to it.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 6th Aug ~ What sort of collectives appear in your work?
Quite a few actually.
To name but a few, the most obvious ones are the magical community, also referred to as the demi-monde when applied to those centred on London; the Council of Concern, the group of 7 individuals who govern the community; the Hounds, who police the community; along with various covens of both witches and Wiccans.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 6th Aug ~ What sort of collectives appear in your work?
Quite a few actually.
To name but a few, the most obvious ones are the magical community, also referred to as the demi-monde when applied to those centred on London; the Council of Concern, the group of 7 individuals who govern the community; the Hounds, who police the community; along with various covens of both witches and Wiccans.#WritersOfMastodon #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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Charles Fort, American author was born on this day in 1874.
He was a writer and researcher who specialised in anomalous phenomena.
The terms “Fortean” and “Forteana” are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena.
His work continues to inspire admirers, who refer to themselves as "Forteans", and has influenced some aspects of science fiction.Examples of the odd phenomena, termed Fortean phenomena, in his books include many occurrences of the sort variously referred to as occult, supernatural, and paranormal. Reported events include teleportation (a term Fort is generally credited with inventing), falls of frogs, fishes, and inorganic materials, spontaneous human combustion, ball lightning (a term explicitly used by Fort), poltergeist events, unaccountable noises and explosions, levitation, unidentified flying objects, unexplained disappearances, giant wheels of light in the oceans, and animals found outside their normal ranges.
He offered many reports of out-of-place artifacts (OOPArts), strange items found in unlikely locations.
He was also perhaps the first person to explain strange human appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis of alien abduction, and was an early proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, specifically suggesting that strange lights or objects sighted in the skies might be alien spacecraft.Basically the guy specialised in weird shit.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 5th Aug. Share a small selection of something you wrote recently that you’re proud of.
This a short story from Tales From the Demi-monde featuring one of my secondary characters.
Judith, a women obsessed with her looks, is viewing a newly acquired sculpture for the first time:
In a way it was similar to Canova’s Three Graces only with added star power given the three women being depicted in the nude were the Goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, the three most beautiful women in the world.
Judith was struck dumb by the spectacle and, Judith being Judith, couldn’t help but compare herself to the three Goddesses.
The workmanship was impeccable; the women were so flawless in their realisation to be lifelike.
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#PennedPossibilities 1091. When not in person, how do people communicate? How has this method of communication affected the society in your world?
On occasion, when working with the Hounds, Nathan and Vicky have kept in touch by using tactical earbuds.
Vicky isn’t reliant on using technology as she has the ability to, in effect, whisper in Nathan’s ear from the other side of the room.
Something she can turn around to listen in to a conversation a similar distance away.
What’s more, as a hereditary witch, she can communicate with her Mum, Esther, even when they are a long way apart, although she does find it very draining.
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#PennedPossibilities 1091. When not in person, how do people communicate? How has this method of communication affected the society in your world?
On occasion, when working with the Hounds, Nathan and Vicky have kept in touch by using tactical earbuds.
Vicky isn’t reliant on using technology as she has the ability to, in effect, whisper in Nathan’s ear from the other side of the room.
Something she can turn around to listen in to a conversation a similar distance away.
What’s more, as a hereditary witch, she can communicate with her Mum, Esther, even when they are a long way apart, although she does find it very draining.
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I'm disappointed to hear that.
I've just finished book 9 and in my opinion it gets better and better as the series proceeds and you get to know the crew of the Roci.
Maybe the last two books flag a little, but I still reckon it's one of the best hard SF series ever written.
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I'm disappointed to hear that.
I've just finished book 9 and in my opinion it gets better and better as the series proceeds and you get to know the crew of the Roci.
Maybe the last two books flag a little, but I still reckon it's one of the best hard SF series ever written.
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#WordWeavers 5. What object in your story has more significance than readers realize?
There’s one artefact which, in a rare deviation from the norm, Nathan has retained for his own use.
It’s an old gnarled, length of wood, somewhere between a staff and a walking stick.
Nathan uses it to enhance his talent when searching for buried artefacts, but he’s also discovered it has healing properties.
Nathan’s used it on himself and lent it to injured friends and colleagues.
He strongly suspects it may somehow be related to Rod of Asclepius.
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#WordWeavers 5. What object in your story has more significance than readers realize?
There’s one artefact which, in a rare deviation from the norm, Nathan has retained for his own use.
It’s an old gnarled, length of wood, somewhere between a staff and a walking stick.
Nathan uses it to enhance his talent when searching for buried artefacts, but he’s also discovered it has healing properties.
Nathan’s used it on himself and lent it to injured friends and colleagues.
He strongly suspects it may somehow be related to Rod of Asclepius.
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#ScribesAndMakers 5. What book are you currently reading, or have you finished most recently?
I’m a third of the way through Academ's Fury, the second book in Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series.
It was inspired by a bet that he couldn’t write a good story based on a lame idea, and he countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing, which turned out to be “Lost Roman Legion,” and “Pokémon.”
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#ScribesAndMakers 5. What book are you currently reading, or have you finished most recently?
I’m a third of the way through Academ's Fury, the second book in Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series.
It was inspired by a bet that he couldn’t write a good story based on a lame idea, and he countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing, which turned out to be “Lost Roman Legion,” and “Pokémon.”
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The Lies of Locke Lamora was one of my favourites so maybe I should give Foundryside a go.
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I just picked up a boxed set containing the first three volumes of the Rivers of London graphic novel for a bargain price.
I’m not normally one for graphic novels but I have to say I’m seriously impressed.
So much so I’m trying to figure out how I can eke out reading them for maximum enjoyment.
A friend suggested I should have a go at producing a graphic novel of my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence.
I’m puzzled about how you’d go about picking which scenes to turn into comic panels, though.
Any suggestions?
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I just picked up a boxed set containing the first three volumes of the Rivers of London graphic novel for a bargain price.
I’m not normally one for graphic novels but I have to say I’m seriously impressed.
So much so I’m trying to figure out how I can eke out reading them for maximum enjoyment.
A friend suggested I should have a go at producing a graphic novel of my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence.
I’m puzzled about how you’d go about picking which scenes to turn into comic panels, though.
Any suggestions?
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#ScribesAndMakers Aug. 4: What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word troll?
Trolling, or furtling around on the internet, fruitlessly looking for information and not finding out what I want to know ‘cos I’m looking in all the wrong places.
Only then does my mind turn to Scandinavian creatures made out of rock.
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#ScribesAndMakers Aug. 4: What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word troll?
Trolling, or furtling around on the internet, fruitlessly looking for information and not finding out what I want to know ‘cos I’m looking in all the wrong places.
Only then does my mind turn to Scandinavian creatures made out of rock.
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#WordWeavers 4 Aug: Which supporting character keeps trying to steal the spotlight?
My initial answer would have been Dex, that was certainly the case when he set off North from London leaving a trail of chaos in his wake.
Since then Cassie, the perky Gothic Belly Dancer, has come on the scene.
Now they’re together as a couple you could say it’s case of double your trouble by uniting as one.
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#WordWeavers 4 Aug: Which supporting character keeps trying to steal the spotlight?
My initial answer would have been Dex, that was certainly the case when he set off North from London leaving a trail of chaos in his wake.
Since then Cassie, the perky Gothic Belly Dancer, has come on the scene.
Now they’re together as a couple you could say it’s case of double your trouble by uniting as one.
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#PennedPossibilities 1090: What mystery has gone unsolved for as long as almost anyone can remember?
The mystery which continues to remain unsolved in my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series is why on earth is magic currently undergoing a resurgence after having faded away to almost nothing since mediaeval times.
It’s proving to be a worrisome to the magical community as it has the potential of drawing attention to them when they’d rather be ignored by the general public.
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#PennedPossibilities 1090: What mystery has gone unsolved for as long as almost anyone can remember?
The mystery which continues to remain unsolved in my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series is why on earth is magic currently undergoing a resurgence after having faded away to almost nothing since mediaeval times.
It’s proving to be a worrisome to the magical community as it has the potential of drawing attention to them when they’d rather remain ignored by the general public.
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#writersCoffeeClub 4 Aug:
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For brevity’s sake I opted to go with http://timhayesauthor.com, but I still think the two terms, Writer, and Author, do have different meanings.To my way of thinking, when writing non-fiction I’m a writer passing on my knowledge in an effort to educate my readers; when I am writing fiction I’m an author, hopefully telling an original story with the aim of entertaining my readers.
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#writersCoffeeClub 4 Aug:
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Do you consider yourself a writer, an author, an artist, or something else? Why?I thought about this long and hard when musing over the most appropriate name for my website.
I wanted to come up with a name which would showcase my writing and was torn between using the terms writer and author, or possibly a combination of the two to reflect the duality of my written work.
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Now here’s a date truly worthy of celebration as it’s said to be the day when the black boy who grew up to be Louis Armstrong the American trumpet player and singer was born.
Nicknamed Satchmo, short for satchel mouth, In 1950,, The nickname "Pops" came from Armstrong's own tendency to forget people's names and simply call them "Pops" instead, and was ultimately was turned around to refer to Armstrong himself.
Bing Crosby, the most successful vocalist of the first half of the 20th century, said, “He is the beginning and the end of music in America.”
Duke Ellington said of him, “If anybody was a master, it was Louis Armstrong. He was and will continue to be the embodiment of jazz.” According to literary critic Harold Bloom, “The two great American contributions to the world's art, in the end, are Walt Whitman and, after him, Armstrong and jazz ... If I had to choose between the two, ultimately, I wouldn't. I would say that the genius of this nation at its best is indeed Walt Whitman and Louis Armstrong.”#WritersOfMastodon #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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Now here’s a date truly worthy of celebration as it’s said to be the day when the black boy who grew up to be Louis Armstrong the American trumpet player and singer was born.
Nicknamed Satchmo, short for satchel mouth, In 1950,, The nickname "Pops" came from Armstrong's own tendency to forget people's names and simply call them "Pops" instead, and was ultimately was turned around to refer to Armstrong himself.
Bing Crosby, the most successful vocalist of the first half of the 20th century, said, “He is the beginning and the end of music in America.”
Duke Ellington said of him, “If anybody was a master, it was Louis Armstrong. He was and will continue to be the embodiment of jazz.” According to literary critic Harold Bloom, “The two great American contributions to the world's art, in the end, are Walt Whitman and, after him, Armstrong and jazz ... If I had to choose between the two, ultimately, I wouldn't. I would say that the genius of this nation at its best is indeed Walt Whitman and Louis Armstrong.”#WritersOfMastodon #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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#ScribesAndMakers 3/8: Are you more comfortable communicating verbally (or signing/ other non-written) or in writing?
These days I find I’m really only comfortable communicating through the written word.
Long ago in a different life I was quite adept at public speaking but that’s all fallen by the wayside now.
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#ScribesAndMakers 3/8: Are you more comfortable communicating verbally (or signing/ other non-written) or in writing?
These days I find I’m really only comfortable communicating through the written word.
Long ago in a different life I was quite adept at public speaking but that’s all fallen by the wayside now.
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I’ve just finished reading Leviathan Falls and found it to be a suitable conclusion to The Expanse.
Over the course of nine books it’s been a really good read, and I personally rate it as being one of the greatest hard science fiction series ever written.
We’ve lost some old friends along the way and have even had a return appearance of someone we’d thought to be long gone.
At the end, after an emotional goodbye, the crew of the Rocinante splits for the final time after decades of flying together.
Alex takes the Rocinante to Nieuwestadt system to live with his son and grandchild, while Amos, Naomi, and Teresa travel back to Sol.
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I’ve just finished reading Leviathan Falls and found it to be a suitable conclusion to The Expanse.
Over the course of nine books it’s been a really good read, and I personally rate it as being one of the greatest hard science fiction series ever written.
We’ve lost some old friends along the way and have even had a return appearance of someone we’d thought to be long gone.
At the end, after an emotional goodbye, the crew of the Rocinante splits for the final time after decades of flying together.
Alex takes the Rocinante to Nieuwestadt system to live with his son and grandchild, while Amos, Naomi, and Teresa travel back to Sol.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 3/8: Are your narrators a diegetic part of the world which they narrate?
For sure, Nathan has been narrating my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence, from the very beginning.
I recently started experimenting with using Vicky as a narrator, too.
It’s fun seeing the action described from a different perspective and shows how Nathan can sometimes be an insufferable idiot.
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And amongst its other ingredients It also seems to be encouraging cannibalism.
Eating people is just plain wrong.
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#PennedPossibilities 1088: Name something that is considered rare and valuable in your WIP? What is common and essential?
One of the main premises of my ongoing contemporary urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence, is the existence of artefacts.
These are items imbued with magic which are considered valuable because they are vanishingly rare as the magical community, as a whole, has lost the ability to create them.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 1/8: What are your goals for the month, writing-wise?
Well, as I mentioned in a recent post I’m taking a break from writing my short story collection, Tales From the Demi-monde.
I’m concentrating instead on putting together a short piece ready to submit to an anthology that’s due at the end of the month.
But I’m not...
OK, I made a start on the submission but got distracted when I came up with an idea for something to add to the short story collection and couldn’t resist putting it down on paper whilst it was fresh in my mind.
So much for planning what to do over the coming month.
What’s that old adage? Ah yes, “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
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