Tag archives for National Novel Writing Month
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Writing Routines
This is inspired as a short piece from a question on the A215 (Creative writing) student forum about what discipline people apply to their writing. I write as part of my work, although mostly not for publication these days (I've had posts in the past where some of my output was made public). The last public work I did was a guest blog entry for the Government Digital Service on Learning from Service Assessments. On the other hand I also write for my own enjoyment, and lots of that is made public, mainly blog entries here, although I also write fiction and have published some of the Exodus Series recently. I joined in National Novel Writing Month last year (it runs every November - affectionately known as NaNoWriMo to its participants). That challenge of writing 50k words in a month got me…
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More Free Stories
I've set up another freebie weekend, so from midnight (Pacific Time) on Friday through to midnight on Monday (in practice about 7am on Tuesday morning for those in the UK) my novellas will be free on Amazon. Exodus: Mike's Thread As the amazon review says "World War Z meets 24". An action packed thriller of a US Military coup to stop a mad US President from launching nukes against the world's spaceports. (UK Amazon) (US/Worldwide) (Canada) Exodus: Perfects Introduction to a group of genetically engineered people living in a world that rejects them. Charlie has turned to organised crime to traffic people to safety and Pandora comes into his life, another person for him to save? (UK Amazon) (US/Worldwide) (Canada) Exodus: Imperfect To be released early July. Following on from Exodus: Perfects where Pandora discovers herself and embraces the criminal side of things to…
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Free Future Thriller on Kindle
Yes, I'm doing another giveaway of my first novella, Exodus: Mike's Thread which is a thrilling tale of a military conspiracy to prevent a mad US President from launching a nuclear Here's the blurb "World War Z meets 24 in Book Form!" - reviewer An action packed military sci-fi novella centring around an army officer telling the story of a military coup occasioned by a religious US president who has maniacal plans for the country's nuclear weapons. Set in the mid 21st Century. People that vote are alienating themselves from science, and voting for the more religious right candidates. This has lead to some strange and unhelpful policies being adopted. As this trend continues some of the more rational and evidence based in government start to look for ways to reverse the trend. When the US President loses it and…
The Old Terra Vitae by Paddy Green
The Old Terra Vitae is one of the best stories I've read this year. The story revolves around what happens to a troubled soul in the afterlife, and it contains some shades of Neil Gaiman in the approach. Well crafted as a story, and with plenty of clues scattered to the unexpected twist that give you a lightbulb moment when it happens. (more…)
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Exodus: Perfects by James Kemp
book cover for Exodus 2: Perfects by James Kemp Exodus: Perfects, Part 2 of my NaNoWriMo 2012 novel, has been released on amazon for kindle. It takes a different tack from Exodus part 1, which followed a US Space Command Colonel and his part on the trigger event that will lead to (some) people leaving the Earth because either they personally aren't welcome there any more (as is the case for the 'Perfects' in part 2) or what they want to do isn't tolerated. Who are the Perfects? So the 'Perfects' of the title are a group of people that are the result of some unauthorised, and unethical, experiments conducted by a genetic therapy company in the 2030s. The embryos were supposed to have been destroyed, but Haephestus Genetics had them implanted into surrogate mothers instead. In the meantime the…