Bad Seeds, free on request
The first book in my Bad Seeds series, Hack 1: Enter Sandman, has just come out for the Kindle. I am issuing free copies to anyone who may be able to write a short review on Goodreads or your blog. Just message me and I will email you with a copy (I can provide .mobi or .epub or even .pdf format).
London, the near future. A brain hacker has found a way to make people’s nightmares real and plans to destroy the world they know. The only hope is a group of talented but dysfunctional agents operating in the interstices between the official channels of Church and State. Led by a former suicide, Alex Marshall, this group of “bad seeds” not only has to find a way to stop the monsters of the id that can bring about an end to all things, but figure how to handle their own self-destructive natures. Bad Seeds, Hack 1: Enter Sandman is the first book in a continuing novella series.
The Felted Stone
My wife, Carole’s forthcoming web space. Watch this space.
I am very excited to let you all know about my new (soon to be live) web space.
The Felted Stone will be a place of creativity, meditation, and transformational opportunities.
Here is a little taster of some imagery for chakra work
The Mechanikals – free on Amazon today
My YA steampunk superheroes book, The Mechanikals, is free on Amazon for Kindle today, so please help yourself….
New on Adventures in SciFi Publishing
A double whammy (as we say in the UK): a review I did of Mike Resnick’s book, The Doctor and the Dinosaurs, and a podcast interview with me, both on Adventures in SciFi Publishing.
The podcast mentions that the audiobook download version of Bone Machines is $1.99 – sorry, but that offer has now been closed. However, the new price, still discounted, is $14.96.
In the interview, show host, Timothy C. Ward, and I talk about the craft of writing. We cover a range of topics, including:
- How to ensure your dialect is accurate when writing in a non-native culture
- What idioms can we use when making up worlds and civilizations?
- “The rhythm of the language is more important than the words that you use.”
- How religion affected early censorship as well as in modern books, but also the surprising openness to sex that non-religious people react to.
A big thanks to Tim for the interview. Though, to be fair, I thought I was online to interview Kay Kenyon, but Tim snagged some of our informal chat beforehand to put into the podcast. You’re so sneaky, Tim!
Who is Insane?
Ragged Soul’s excellent blog about her personal journey with bipolar disorder.
I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder almost a year ago. I was hospitalized for nearly a month in the psych ward. I had a complete psychotic break. I had hallucinations and grandiose thoughts – a classic manic episode. I started a blog just before my episode went into full swing. My writings in the days leading up to my hospitalization reveal a bit of what was going on in my head at the time. I think a lot of what I had to say was real, it was true. I still believe most of what I had to say. So, what does it all mean?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about mental illness. Thinking about what it means to be bipolar. Thinking about the emotions I go through. Thinking about what’s wrong with me. And what’s right. How I don’t believe there is anything wrong with anyone who…
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Felted pod aspiring to become a handbag
My wife, Carole, is producing some amazing textile work. Lately, a lot with felting. Why not drop over to her blog and check out her projects, and you’ll also see how some of them are created. You’ll also find more about her work, including lots of beautiful work for sale, through her Bagsalicious Facebook page.
All those gorgeous, rich, jewel-like, dyed fibres came together to create this 12″ high felted pod, but it is calling out to me to become a handbag. I hope I did the fibres justice and kept their beauty.
Three books giveaway
Linked to my review of Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R.Martin and Gardener Dozois, there’s a fabulous giveaway of three books over at Adventures in SciFi Publishing. Log in to the site via the entry button to put yourself in the running to win three anthologies from those lovely people at Tor: Dangerous Women, Twenty First Century Science Fiction and Year’s best SF 18.
Surely you don’t want to pass up a chance to snag all three?
Entries from US and Canada only.
Kendrick 3 Complete!
Well, almost….
My third novel in the Kendrick Chronicles series, Babylon Slide, has been in the hands of some eagle-eyed and constructively critical beta readers. It gets one more read through before shipping out for, hopefully, an audiobook treatment, maybe an e-book, too. And, who knows, it may see print…we’ll see.
Pollocked!
Prompted by my wife, Carole’s Pollock-inspired fibre art project, I took a quick trip down memory lane and returned to doing some poster designing. It was a quick project, and I would have done more with the paint drips were it aimed for something commercial, but I had huge fun making this.
Bone Machines 