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Why Should You Need to Read Book Everyday

It’s no secret that the digital industry is booming. From exciting startups to global brands, companies are reaching out to digital agencies, responding to the new possibilities available. However.

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Gateway Through Time on Smashwords

When cracks appear across the central Australian desert, US General John Cobb discovers it marks the return of The Great Old Ones, the Elder Gods, and they are coming to take their rightful place on Earth. Cobb calls in two experts, Australian analyst, Sergeant Emerson James Ash and British Canadian archaeologist, Colonel Andrew Stone to […]

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Gaia Awakens: A Climate Crisis Anthology

So I’m really thrilled to announce that I have two stories coming out in this anthology, edited by C.D. Tavenor and Meg Trast. It’s up on Amazon for pre-orders ahead of its release date 9 Nov 2021. Here’s the overview: The climate crisis looms. The Earth awakens. Climate change. The greatest existential threat in the […]

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Fantasy Writing Fun Days

Well, I’ve done it. I took some vacation time so that I could update my fantasy novel that had recently been read by a very kind first reader, and the manuscript came back with some really great suggestions. So I spent the first part of my break making all the suggested changes and fixing it […]

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Story Plotting: Shout out to Kevin Ikenberry

The ten steps of the Snowflake Method of plotting by Randy Ingermanson is a great way to plot. Equally Jami Gold’s Master Beat Sheet, a combination of Save the Cat Beat Method based on Blake Snyder’s plot arc orientated structure and Larry Brook’s Story Engineering structure works equally well. But Plotter or pantser, at the […]

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Writing Distractions

Sometimes I get distracted and there’s other things on my notebook other than a written story. But last week I saw these poor lithops in a garden center, in tiny pots of dry peat moss and perlite. I knew once they got watered in this cooler weather that they would likely rot and die. So […]

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