'Below the canopy her name was painted in an artistic scrawl along with pin-up artwork of a scantily clad woman in heels and tiny shorts. Below a heavy volume of dishevelled red hair, a dark red stripe went from her left eye, down her neck and back ending at a glowing blue circle embedded below her shoulder blades, resembling the markings and ventral lift engine
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I finished the final index (chapter) of teh first half of my second book today.
'It feels good' is the short blog.
My Twitch streaming has kept the fourth draft of Boxrunner going so progress continues apace there too but getting to half way through my second book is really important.
Just that there will now be less ahead of me than there is behind
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Every now and then, one of your characters opens up a little and says something that you didn't expect.
The Forwarder is usually suspicious and calculating - cynical to the core. Perhaps that comes from a core belief of self reliance.
The quote differentiates between the two similar sounding concepts - but points out what the character sees as a key difference. Confidence, we receive
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'Where the butterflies go' is an esoteric poem inspired by Phoenix McAndrew's lyrics for a song she posted on Instagram.
There is an explanation as to what it means, to me, at least. Take what you will from it. All I ask is that you stop for a moment...
... and wonder where the butterflies go.
When someone reads an excerpt from your first gritty, industrial hard sci-fi story and says "It sounds like a good premise for a YA novel."
Up with this, I will not put.
Steps are being taken in the sequel. 😂😂
It is the case that there was less cause for more mature violence and language in book one... That's just how it played out and
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I did my first proper Twitch stream last night - the first of twelve sessions where I will read out my first novel - The Deep System: Boxrunner.
This session was a bit longer to get to the right point in the story before stopping but it took just under 2 hours to read the first 7 chapters (referred to as
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It's getting a bit dangerous out in The Deep System. This new render uses illuminated elements to get the glow from teh plasma bolts on the Quadstar.
With a successful Twitch test stream under my belt, I will start reading the first book 'Boxrunner' next Saturday 29th Jan 2022. Streams will start at 10pm GMT (US: 5pm Eastern). If you like audiobooks and feminist science
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The rise of the audiobook has created a problem for us unpublished authors. Finding beta readers was difficult enough before but so many people now either don't have time to sit and read or just prefer audiobooks.
So I will be streaming my book, in segments, on Twitch. If you like the idea of well written female characters in an industrial, post-urban decay, Solar System
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Frydon Carlyle is captain of the Eclipsis freighter 'Ikiryō'. He goes by the Japanese term 'Senchou' and perhaps has a wiser head on his shoulders than most people realise.
From The Deep System: Proteus Rising.