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My Goodreads Giveaway Is Now Live
For the next ten days, I have a giveaway up on Goodreads that gives 100 people the chance to get a free advance Kindle copy of the Sleeping Dragon. If you fancy a copy, then please go to this link to enter. You will be required to be a Goodreads member, but if you haven’t…
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Sleeping Dragon: Gadgets & Items
Sleeping Dragon’s world is a world of magic, not electricity, with the universal laws of magic explaining that universe in much the same way that physics explains ours. The devices that Sleeping Dragon’s civilisation is built upon are powered by magic, having been designed by mage-programmers and mass-produced in factories. In our world, one word…
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Countdown to Sleeping Dragon: An Introduction
The Sleeping Dragon, my third novel, is set in what I call a “post-Tolkienesque” world. Five hundred years previously, it possessed all the standard trappings of a typical fantasy setting – kings, wizards, warriors, magic, dwarves, dragons, and elves who’d been so pissed off at the rise of men that they’d sodded off over a…
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Announcing the “Manaverse”
A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about my need to create a name for the fantasy setting of the Sleeping Dragon. Well, a few days later, I have it. Ladies and gentleman, drumroll please, may I give you… the Manaverse. What is the Manaverse? Well as the name suggests it’s a universe,…
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On The Naming Of A Series
This is something of an announcement twice over, the first announcement being of a new novel that I’ve started working on1, and the second announcement being that of the resulting marketing / naming predicament that this decision has precipitated. The new novel, provisionally titled the Elven Lands Murders, is not so much a sequel to…
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The Gutter Prayer, by Gareth Hanrahan
I’ve just (belatedly!) ordered the signed, limited Goldsboro Books edition of the Gutter Prayer, the debut mainstream novel of my very good friend1 Gareth Hanrahan (actually Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, but that’s apparently too long a name to fit on a novel’s cover). Limited edition as it is, it costs £24.99, but I think that’s actually excellent…
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I Have A YouTube Channel
I’ve never really got into the vlogging area. Back when Game Night came out in 2008, Jules and I filmed three videos that I thought were actually quite funny, and which I uploaded to YouTube. But I didn’t really get any response from them, and I never followed it up. Of course, since then, YouTube…
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44 Per Cent: A Party Game About Populist Politics
Type: Party Game Players: 5 upwards (20 is ideal) Duration: ~20 minutes Equipment: Paper and pencils Complexity: Simple Risk of Conflict: High 44 Per Cent is a fun and educational party game that takes its name from the fact that in the 1933 German General Elections, Hiter’s Nazi party achieved a 44% share of the…
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New Look
Any of you who’ve previously visited might notice that my website now looks very different, as I’ve changed both the core theme (I’m now using Hemingway) and the header image. The old website was getting on four ten years old, I think, and its look and feel was starting to appear a little “fussy”. I…
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Upabove: Sleeping Dragon’s Decaying Jewel
Sleeping Dragon’s origins lie more than ten years in my past, to a weekend break my wife and I took to Venice back in the autumn of 2007. This was just three months after our wedding, but full disclose compels me to admit that this was the result not of some romantic gesture by me,…
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