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Authors Log 2005.24

About 1 week from finishing the first draft of Cut In Half, Book A in the In All Jest World series. Then I’ll be straight into editing it with a two-month turnaround on that before getting to my editors. The goal is to have that published later this year while writing Book 4 in the…

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Want to read my books for free?

For many people books are not part of their day-to-day budget and so they miss out on enjoying reading simply because of the price. Of course as an author we need to charge for books to make our living, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to read any book you want, without having…

Midderbuilt Illustration

Cover Reveal Spire Of Fools

It’s time to release the cover for Book 3 in the In All Jest series, Spire Of Fools. Unlike the first two books this cover only came together recently. It took the amazing skills of my designers in my web agency to help produce the background image, which is an illustration of Midderbuilt, from within…

World Building in a wiki

Wiki time is better than waiting time.

In my view, there’s no worse time than the period between sending off a manuscript to your editor and when you receive it back. Due to the deadline and human’s being good at always needing every last minute to complete such a thing, you are invariably very busy up to the end. Then it just…

Author’s Log 0408.23

Author’s Log 0408.23

Oops this is almost like a 6 month update. At the begining of this week the manuscript for Book 3 of the In All Jest series, now named Spire Of Fools, was sent off to my editor. It came in around 260,000 words, which no doubt will get a little trimming, but was pretty on…