A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
April 14-15, 1912 Magda was content as the mighty ship ploughed forcefully through the sea and she walked gracefully along the ship’s promenade deck. It was dark and cold, but the gay music from the ballroom washed over her and Magda reflected on her soon to be new life. She smiled at a passing ship’s…
Magda’s Journey – April 1912 She was born Magda and her name became synonymous with early 20th Century American history. But in ways that nobody understood, Magda will be lost, and Maggie will replace her. But, for now, in this brief fraction of time that is being played out before us, we will call her…
The Brittle Sea To see other extracts from this book, click on the hashtag #TheBrittleSea A Death on the Street – March 15, 1931 The sidewalk on 42nd wasn’t especially crowded for an early spring Sunday in New York. The well-dressed old man walked freely between passing pedestrians, jauntily swinging his cane, the cane…
A funny thing happened to me on the way to making coffee in the kitchen a few weeks back. Suddenly I couldn’t taste the coffee. I like dark roast Columbian Arabica, using a cafetiere. But on this day not only could I not taste it, but the experience also left an odd taste in my…
I know, I know you’re thinking old dumbo has it wrong again. I should have typed Chemical Brothers… you know, the band? Well, no, I didn’t get it wrong, and I do mean Chemo Sisters. Sisters as in nurses, Chemo as in Chemotherapy for cancer. You see, dear reader, yesterday was day four of my…
To misquote a scene from the hit film The Matrix, “You take the blue pill, the story ends. You take the red pill; you stay in wonderland.“ In my case, I’m applying this to the wonderland of Cyprus medicine, notably the General Health System. A sort of UK NHS but where the bed-knobs are falling…
As an avid writer and erstwhile sufferer of a couple of debilitating illnesses, I’ve done my best to not let this stop my writing progress. But it has been hard over the first six months of this year. And now treatment has started, I’m hoping to catch up on my various projects that have been…
I’m now expanding my book’s sales stores from exclusively Amazon to include the following digital stores: Apple BooksBarnes & NobleKoboScribdSmashwordsTolinoOverDrivebibliothecaBaker & TaylorBorrowBoxVivlio All my books as they are being added over the summer. This process has started and The Brittle Saga Box Set is already on these new stores, so click here to view the…
Rescued a tiny kitten today from under my car at my holiday apartment. A friend of a friend is in the cat rescue business and it’s at the vet’s suffering from malnutrition and dehydration.The poor thing’s back legs had been stuck to glue sticks so it couldn’t find food and was abandoned by its mother….
If it had not been for technology, I wouldn’t be sitting here today, typing this blog post, and, I wouldn’t have a blog let alone an internet connection. It’s technology that allows us to do the things we love best as indie authors, namely, to write. True enough we could all go back to typing,…
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