Writing fantasy

My #Christmas just got better with the offer of a real job as a ghostwriter.

A lot of people are dubious about being a ghostwriter, but my view is I’ll get paid even if the book doesn’t do well, and I am trying to get in the Association of ghostwriters, and I need two people to vouch for my work.

This is the comment from my client about Sons of Baal, book 1 in my Science Fiction series – Thank you for bidding on my project. I have read some of your book and I like your style!

I am known for #scifi, but years ago, my book To Elfenmere got praised by a lady with a BA in Medieval Studies 

Happy Christmas

The BIG 600

Yes, finally my series Forgestriker makes the grade with its 600th e-book sale, in less than two years.

I’ll never know who, or where you are, but I thank you for all your help in the great success of the series. If you want to help a little more, a few kind words on the pages can boost sales.

 

The Ardennes campaign

Many people are eager to hurl abuse at the US for going to war, but if you stop and look at the history behind the reason, most of the time it has been to cover up for a mess left by the French.

A case in mind is the Ardennes campaign that started yesterday, in 1944. The US forces had to mobilize in what become known as “The Battle of the Bulge” because the French said the Germans couldn’t drive tanks through the forests – tell that to the 90,000 US soldiers who lost their lives, and the families who still grieve.

Percy Fawcett

One of the great mysteries of the late 1920’s is the disappearance in the Amazon jungle of Sir Percy Fawcett. My book Did we see him? is a fictional story based on the most popular theories of the time.

Coming soon

I have plans to do a sequel called Did we see them? This has been in the WIP stage for some while, as I thought there would be no interest in my story – a common flaw.

 

I’m writing a story (not a sequel) on the further adventures of Charles Palmerston called Akuji that will be set in Africa.

Blonde moment

Fringe writer

As a fellow writer, I know the problems of keeping stories going. I used to write an online series a few years ago.

However, in one episode of #Fringe, there was what I can only class as a “Blonde moment” for the writer.

Olivia is in a theatre and is talking with an observer when he says “I have seen all possibilities, and in all of them you need to die.”

Let’s evaluate what was said

She works for the F.B.I. that means she has undergone intense scrutiny of her mentality. She works for a branch that deals with strange happenings, and she is a person.

I think it is 100% certain, she had already worked out that she was going to die.

 

Forgestriker – the hit series

#Firefly 

If you enjoyed the series Firefly, and who didn’t?  You’ll enjoy my hit series Forgestriker, it is so popular that in under two years the seven book series is one sale short of selling 600 e-books on Barnes & Noble.

 

Further adventures

I did plan to write another series about Forgestriker, but as the later books in the series didn’t sell well I put the idea out of my mind.

Zombies are here

Where are they now?

The big hoax

Three years ago, there was the largest publicity stunt in living memory – an ironic phrase.

2012

Writers from everywhere were writing about the end of the world, the Mayan Calender stone and a zombie apocalypse – here we are three years on and still rolling.

What happened to all the writers who made a mint that year?
They’re no better off than me, one reason I never follow a trend.

Nobody sent me money when the panic was on about the end of the world -three years ago. It’s coming to the end of 2015, and we’ve moved on  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_calendar_stone. I guess all those rich folk from 2012 are looking for the next cash cow to milk.

Writing contest

I don’t enter many contests, but I was invited to enter this one on Books go Social, the prize is $300 which will come in useful to buy some covers, so my books sell better.

 

All you that you need to do is log on to the site and click the heart and the arrow over the number, any help is welcome, thank you.

The Get it button goes to the book on Amazon.co.uk

The right choice

#amwriting #selfpub

In the last two years, I have constantly tried to second guess myself about a decision I made to turn down a contract to write for Horny Devil. I had many reasons running through my mind, not the least is I didn’t like their tenant where anything legal is good – I have boundaries and won’t cross them.

Another reason is my friend Yezall says she made more from selling her work than she did from their sales, and she’s a good writer.

Why I know it was the right decision is because I checked the site today, despite access to the front page, there are no links to any section. Whether they were closed for practices considered highly dubious or because writers gave up on them is open to debate.