A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
Fiction is my forte, but I do write non-fiction. Just take it as read that if you can write about something, I’ll be there having a go at doing so.
As an Indie Author, I’ve had my fair share of great reviews, bad reviews and on several occasions’ horrible reviews. I’m no doubt not alone in this revelation that not all reviews of a writer’s book are going to be good reviews. As writers, all we can hope is that the majority are good reviews,…
The Ragged Edge of Time Click on #RaggedEdgeofTime to see all available extracts Chapter Two: Gideon Prime Gideon Prime awoke to bright lights and a low resonance hum. He looked to his left and smiled at the man watching him. The man smiled back. “Hello. Do you know where you are?” Gideon was on a…
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla electric cars and SpaceX, makers of launch vehicles and spacecraft, has long nurtured the desire to see humanity colonise Mars. As one of his websites puts it, The Road to Making Humanity Multiplanetary. To some it’s a noble cause and to others a waste of money. Personally, I’m not in…
The Ragged Edge of Time Illustrator: BlackDog1966 Click on #RaggedEdgeofTime to see all available extracts Chapter One: In the 23rd Century – New Hope The giant generation star ship, New Hope, was on target to meet its destiny. In less than two-hundred Earth years it would achieve orbit around a new earth like planet orbiting…
Once upon a time, when I was a mere tiny tearaway lad and the world was a much simpler place, my family had an upright piano in the dining room. If you have no idea what an upright piano looks like, then the picture herein should give the game away. And no, the girl is…
At my chemo session the other day, I was all ears at the commotion going on in the next room. Mine was a four-hour chemo drip session. I felt like a plastic container for a Johnson & Johnson product. But while this drip was being dripped, I was listening to another drip in the room…
The Brittle Sea is part of a trilogy and is about love, hope, mental health, and a determination to overcome adversity. Book 1 opens with the main female character, young Magda Asparov. Her father has arranged for her to marry wealthy New York businessman Matthew Turner III and she is travelling, alone, from Ukraine to…
Aspects of History: Technology and the Titanic Ned Parfett, the young lad shown in the image above, was a 15-year-old newspaper seller in London. When he was handed copies of the Evening News to sell, he also received a large poster that he would hold up to display the headlines that evening. On that day,…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts The Man in Black The lane running alongside the Fordham house, close to Roc la Tour, led south to Tournavaux or west to Monthermé in the Ardennes Forest. It fell to Jessie, as she had always done since her early teens, to…
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Ouvrage Schoenenbourg At the fortified outpost of Ouvrage Schoenenbourg, part of the fortifications that made up the Maginot Line, the Germans were playing with Capitaine Bertold’s small company of French soldiers. Bertold suspected snipers were playing games, seeing who could put a…
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