Morgan Freeman is dead
Morgan Freeman is dead. Again. If anyone is in any doubt, just check his Wikipedia page, because if Morgan really had died, the Wiki faeries would have swooped in and sprinkled pixie dust on his date...
View ArticleCreating your own author platform
Hey, if you — like me — are just starting your career as an author, you might want to consider building your own platform. I’ve written an article over on the Octane website explaining how to build...
View ArticleStacks of fun!
I can’t say Ready Player One by Ernest Cline blew me away, because I found it to be quite chaotic and a lot of a jumble. However, kudus to Cline for emulating — in a very literal sense — his novel by...
View ArticleProject Status — Remembrance
Remembrance is moving along and is almost complete. Kind of. Remembrance is a mix of horror fantasy, interwoven with the tenuous threads of science fiction, and it has progressed to an advanced...
View ArticleProject Status — Perdition’s End
Once again working on the “chronology” for Perdition’s End, which is the continuation of a major story arc and the first of a tetralogy. And so the Continuum takes shape…
View ArticleGoodbye post-modernism! Say hello to the post-apocalyptic aesthetic!
A photographic collection of high-tech crack dens and post-apocalyptic survivalist home offices, gone wrong. If this is how the world is supposed to end, you can keep your damn armageddon!
View ArticleSo you’re an author. And?
Just in case anyone was wondering why their talents aren’t attracting the successes they imagined. It’s a topic I’ve often considered myself, and I had a theory, which in the last few years I’ve...
View ArticleProject Status — Perdition’s End
Perdition’s End is taking significantly longer to develop than I’d anticipated (for a number of reasons), but it is progressing. In between puzzling over action sequences and continuity, I decided to...
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Remembrance
Years before the events of Earth Day, Remembrance is a dark journey of discovery. And, as the Irish proverb says, may you never forget what is worth remembering, or remember what is best forgotten....
View ArticleA continuum of ideas
One of my earliest memories of writing was wondering how to spell the name of a planet I’d just made up. So, as any child would do, I asked my dad. “You can spell it how you want.” And there, at that...
View ArticleI have a distraction…
Aside from Octane, my own business, to keep me occupied, I have several personal projects, such as writing and aspiring to be an author of some renown. But I also have a dream, and it’s proving to be a...
View ArticleSo you thought being a superhero would be easy?
Joe from A Darkening of Fortune must know exactly how this guy feels.
View ArticleA fascination with everything
“What Fascinates You?” A simple enough question I found in a forum on Goodreads. But context is everything, isn’t it? In the context of being a writer, what fascinates me is no different to what...
View ArticleIs it okay to be a selfish writer?
Someone asked whether it was the allure of wealth or fame that compelled their fellow writers. Of course, I had my own thoughts on this. If you look at it from an external perspective — through the...
View ArticleNo, not like the Marvel Universe
Just after writing Earth Day, I had an idea (more of an epiphany, really), which — on reflection — should have given me more pause for thought, but didn’t. I made the decision to create my own...
View ArticleYou are here!
Just in case you’ve found yourself on my website for no obvious or apparent reason, it’s likely that you’re the victim of a scam which is targeting me along with several other websites. In the...
View ArticleA question of faith (or, a questioning of faith)
I often jot down ideas a pieces of dialogue that come to mind, and one such example from September 2013 came to mind in light of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, where the offices of a satirical magazine were...
View ArticleSuperhero stories aren’t just black and white
Somewhere, in and amongst the controversial topic of race, the stories became lost, or themselves hidden by the arguments, which is sad. Perhaps more sad is that the real stories — those about people...
View ArticleAI
Having an employee who’s an expert in AI has its advantages. Asking him about emergent AI prompted much laughter, though. Confirming the suspicions I had, we are so far from the type of artificial...
View ArticleThe future of James Bond is far from black and white
“James Bond author sparks outrage after daring to have an opinion.” Quick, someone start a petition… Yet, I also said this: “To paraphrase the great philosopher Ali G: Is it coz Idris is black?” If...
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