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Blog postI had a chat over on the Blasters & Blades Podcast about the Monster at the Gate story that came out a few weeks ago in In the Wings. Secrets were divulged.
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Blog postAfter beavering away for the last two months, I can now proudly announce that The Reality War is rewritten, polished, repainted, and now sports the words ‘2nd Edition’ on the copyright pages.
For those who don’t know (and I wouldn’t blame you) the two novels in The Reality War were the first novels of mine to be published, back in 2011. Although they are set in the Human Legion Universe, they are a different style to later books, such as Marine Cadet.
Consequently, I didn’t sp -
Blog postMy latest book has just come out in Kindle and paperback editions from Seventh Seal Press. This is In the Wings, the latest Four Horsemen Universe anthology. The first anthology (A Fistful of Credits, 2017) was my introduction to the 4HU, and it excited me enough that I was soon writing 4HU stories myself. I hope this new 4HU anthology (the tenth!) will be a happy starting point for some more readers.
In this book, fifteen of us have taken leading support characters from earlier stori -
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Blog postI have another book launch today! Hold the Line is the fifth and best Chimera Company novel and it’s published today by Theogony Books, featuring Vincent Sammy on the crayons. Audio will follow later with Steve Campbell on the voices.
This is my 21st published novel, which means I have officially come of age and am now a writing adult. Or something.
What I like most about this is that my writing has changed for the better since my first serious attempt at a novel, which was sh -
Blog postOcto Racing! Greetings from the sunny depths of England, where the Covid restrictions will soon be relaxed and I’m starting to plan some Octo Racing for August.
Please don’t confuse this with the traditional races featuring elite sports octopi. I’m referring, of course, to racing octogenarians. As far as I can make out, my family’s enjoyed the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze every year since the 1930s, interrupted only by Adolf Hitler and Covid. My parents’ legs aren’t too cleve -
Blog postFashionably Late OK, it’s mid-June. I think it’s time to wrap up my 2020 retrospective with this bumper-sized final installment!
Let’s suppose over the next few years that some of the biggest publishers of fiction do make the switch from a business-2-business model to one in which they sell direct to the consumer. Additionally, some will develop digital subscription services. In other words, Disney+ for books.
What does that mean?
For publishing. For science fiction a -
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Blog postI’ve just typed ‘The End’ and sent off a couple of novelettes for anthologies. One’s a space opera adventure with plenty of exotic aliens. The other is unusual for me in that the story of hired assassins has no fantastical elements. Well, it’s set in an alternate version of contemporary America, so it’s technically a fantasy, I guess, but there are no ray guns or interstellar squids, so I’m keeping it real for this one. Fingers crossed they get accepted.
I have some tidying up and adm -
Blog postTheogony Books has just launched the latest Chimera Company novel. If evil terraforming operations, the exotic court of a sector crime boss, and an alien goat with attitude are your thing, the fourth Chimera Company novel is for you.
Prior to this, the Theogony novels have been a mix of new material and old. Smuggler Queen is all new.
I sent the the fifth novel, Hold the Line, off to the publisher yesterday today. Hopefully they’ll like it, because it’s due to be published -
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Blog postThe latest Chimera Company novel is published today. As a writer, getting books out and into the hands readers (or their ears) is what it’s all about.
Department 9 is my nineteenth novel. I have decided that novelists come of age after 21 novels, because that’s a milestone I expect to meet in the summer. Since I’ve not yet come of age, Department 9 is filled with writerly teenage vigor, and I use it to go dystopian in a world where failure to report an illegal act wins you the sam -
Blog postOperation Redeal is out now for Kindle and paperback.
If cool space ships, ancient space stations, even more Dyson rings, and interstellar shenanigans are your thing, then I think you’ll enjoy it. While not strictly necessary, it’s even more fun if you’ve read The Fall of Rho-Torkis first.
For anyone who read the 2019 serials, Operation Redeal is made up partially of material from the old season 2 and partially brand new adventure.
Operation Redeal is where we first encoun -
Blog postFeb 15th, 2011 was when I went full time as a writer, pushed into it initially on account of being made redundant from the place I’d worked for 20 years.
A decade later and I have five novels coming out in just the first half of this year and I’m hoping to reach my three-hundred-thousandth sale before year end. To my surprise, I’ve survived my first decade in the biz!
Since the people who read my blog are among my firmest supporters, I want to thank you for making this possibl -
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Blog post[This article first appeared in the Legion Bulletin, the essential Legionary journal.]
I hit 51 years of age earlier this week. I’ve learned a few things over those years. Not many, admittedly, but a few. One of them is that life rarely gives you second chances. And on those rare occasions when it does, your best response is to seize this precious opportunity with all six limbs (as the Jotuns are wont to say).
The scarcity of second chances is particularly true in the world of -
Blog postThey Shall. Not. Pass! The traditional publishing model hasn’t changed much since the introduction of paperbacks in the wake of the Second World War. [#1]
Hardbacks are the golden eggs-laying machine of this model. And the primary way that readers should buy their books is through the brick-and-mortar bookstore.
Paperbacks sell more units, but the margins are lower, so publishers strive always to present hardbacks as a premium product and sell premium titles in hardback first -
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Blog postSo that was 2020!
For a few years now, I’ve started each year by writing ‘state of science fiction’ publishing posts in which I talk about trends I’ve seen and project them into the future. [#1]
For the most part, I’ve been proved correct. For example, a few years ago I mentioned the rise of NewPub small publishers with radically different business models from OldPub, the likes of LMBPN, Podium, and Chris Kennedy Publishing, for example. 2020 saw these small presses go from st -
Blog post*That author being me! Well, Mum and Dad think I’m a top author, so I’m owning it
I’ve been appearing on the Sci Fi Thoughts podcast every Wednesday with Lancer Kind. When Lancer interviewed me, we talked for an hour or so. Lancer’s edited that down and presented it as a series of short podcast episodes of about ten minutes each.
It’s a nice approach. I think it works well.
We cover all sorts: 4HU and Human Legion, how I research books, why it was beer that got me star -
Blog postA shorter version of this article was first published in Legion Bulletin #107, Oct 28th 2020.
Politics.
There’s a lot of it going about it the moment!
As I write this, we’re days away from elections in the USA, the impact of the Brexit referendum on the UK is about to get very real, there are riots all over Europe protesting lockdown restrictions, there’s anti-government unrest in Thailand and Nigeria and…
…and it goes on. Politics may peak and die away within -
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Blog postToday I want to talk about themes in science fiction.
Themes, thematic statements, morals, messages. For simplification, I’d say these are essentially the same thing and use the umbrella term theme.
Conventional literary theory states that a theme of a book or movie is what it’s about. It’s the message, the moral, the observation on the human condition that tells us where we might be headed in the future. For example (and this is not specific to science fiction) True love conq -
Blog postJoe at the Unity 151 Booktube channel invited me on for a chat last week. First up we talked about my current project, Chimera Company, and then we moved on to my most recently published novel (One Minute to Midnight) and the Four Horsemen Universe in general.
Amongst other things, I go through some inspirations for both series and explain where the idea of the Midnight Sun Free Company and the Goltar came from*. Spoiler: it’s basically a Jag E-Type restored by a super-rich owner who’ -
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Blog postI had an unpleasant experience last week.
I read what I regard as the worst book review I’ve ever seen.
It wasn’t a review of one of my own books, because I rarely read them these days. Here’s why. In reviews of my books, I’ve been accused of being a communist, fascist, feminazi, SJW, gun porn peddler, neocon (I had to look that up – the term didn’t mean what I had assumed) and a host of other crimes. Some people, of course, simply didn’t like my books, which is fair enough. M -
Blog postFor anyone following what I’m up to via this site, here is the news.
Last month, I capped all my Four Horsemen Universe (4HU) short stories and novels to date with One Minute to Midnight. I co-wrote that book and doing so was a pleasure that delivered practical benefits too. I will co-write again.
For the moment, One Minute is only available in paperback and Kindle editions. The audiobook is in production.
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It Takes All Kinds (The Coalition Book 9)
Sep 11, 2021
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Kevin Steverson,
Chris Kennedy,
William Webb,
Alex Rath,
Quincy Allen,
Marisa Wolf,
Christopher Woods,
Rob Howell,
Ian Malone,
Tim Taylog,
Melissa Olthoff,
Mark Stallings,
Robert E. Hampson,
Jason Cordova,
Benjamin Tyler Smith
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In the Wings: An Anthology of Four Horsemen Universe Secondary Characters (Four Horsemen Sagas Book 7)
Jul 6, 2021
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Chris Kennedy,
Mark Wandrey,
Kevin Ikenberry,
Kevin Steverson,
Kacey Ezell,
Marisa Wolf,
Tim C. Taylor,
William Alan Webb,
Terry Mixon,
Jon R. Osborne,
Richard Alan Chandler ,
Nick Steverson ,
Zachary Ritz,
David Shadoin ,
Casey Moores
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For a Few Credits More: More Stories from the Four Horsemen Universe (The Revelations Cycle Book 7)
Sep 12, 2017
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Chris Kennedy,
Peter Cawdron,
Rob Howell,
Scott Moon,
Josh Hayes,
JR Handley,
Corey Truax,
Tim C. Taylor,
Mark Wandrey,
Terry Mixon,
Thomas A. Mays,
Ian J. Malone,
Troy Carrol Bucher,
Chris Winder,
James Young,
Nick Cole,
Jake Bible,
Kacey Ezell
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Storming Area 51 (A Bayonet Books Anthology Book 2)
Sep 18, 2019
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J. R. Handley,
C.J. Carella,
J W Kiefer,
Walt Robillard,
Michael Gants,
Sarah A. Hoyt,
Alice Peng,
Jamie Ibson,
Tim Niederriter,
Phillip Ginn,
E. A. Shanniak,
Chris Winder,
Marisa Wolf,
Aaron Seaman,
Doug Burbey,
Nathan Pedde,
Tim C. Taylor,
Casey Moores,
Cisca Small,
I. Ronik,
Michael J. Allen,
Alex C. Gates,
Declan Finn,
IQ Malcolm,
Milissa L. Story,
J. William Adler,
Joshua M. Young,
Sophie J. Shepherd,
Lawrence N. Oliver,
Mel Todd,
Drew Avera,
Philip K. Booker,
Tamsin L. Silver,
Robert W. Ross,
Daniel Medrano,
R. Max Tillsley
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