So a thing happened… (Dragon Con 2016)

So a thing happened… (Dragon Con 2016)

A while back one of my clients contacted me to say that his second book – Grave Measures – had been nominated for Dragon Con. I congratulated him, of course, lots of ‘well done’ and ‘that’s fab’ and then carried on editing...

How it all began…

A long time ago, (2013/14 to be precise), I was contacted by Hawkins Publishing Group, an independent publisher in America and asked if I would be interested in an intern position. While there, I participated in acquisitions as part of a team, reading submissions and...

Guru Purnima

This morning I received two separate messages from two individuals I have given advice to over recent weeks. Both contacted me to explain that Guru Purnima is a day when teachers, mentors, and elders are thanked. It is a day celebrated by Hindus and...

Half year update

I’ve been quiet on the blogging/social network side of things of recent, mostly because I’ve been so busy, but I thought I should take a step back to wave – *waves enthusiastically* – and let you all know I’m still here. This morning, I...
Children of Italy by Christine Simolke

Children of Italy by Christine Simolke

A lonely man’s affair with an alluring woman threatens to destroy his beloved family. Its 1924, Italian immigrant Luigi Falconi has been away from home for twelve years working as a coal miner in West Virginia to carve out what he hopes will be a better life for...
Avie Adams: Incanta: Soul Catcher

Avie Adams: Incanta: Soul Catcher

Darkness rules her life. A pitiless man wants her body. A Daemon craves her heart. Raised within a regimented society of mages on the obsidian island of Malvaar, Cytriah, a young soul-catcher, is determined to attain the elite female rank of Exalted, hoping her...
Patch of Dirt by Richard Lutman

Patch of Dirt by Richard Lutman

Patch of Dirt introduces us to Joe Oliver, a womanizing thirty-year old drifter, who meets Frank Hill, a sixty-five year old, wounded Vietnam Veteran and his twenty-five year old wife Rita. Frank offers Joe a job, which he reluctantly accepts and is duped into...
Zanzibar 7. Schwarznegger: Beta Beware

Zanzibar 7. Schwarznegger: Beta Beware

DJ needs beta readers. Christopher needs beta readers. But when DJ offers a trade, she gets more than she bargained. She’s thrust into Christopher’s crazy Figments world gone awry, as a mere piece in a game. Can she figure out the rules in a game where the...
So a thing happened… (Dragon Con 2016)

R.R.Virdi: Grave Measures

What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of...
Colin P. Whittle: Celeste

Colin P. Whittle: Celeste

Chris Brown is unemployed and going nowhere in life. Living in a small flat in North London, he is heavily in debt and needs to find the money to repay the loan shark; or else. Answers to his problems come with the unexpected arrival of aliens from 600 light years...