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The Elf king’s Thingy part 3

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Mark Hayes

The Elf King’s Thingy part III Elsewhere… about now The room was ordinary teenage girls bedroom. The dresser was sprue with cheap but trendy bit of makeup. The floor was a depository of used clothing and textbooks, which it turn … Continue reading →

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Harvey hits 50

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Mark Hayes

With its latest release the Harvey Duckman series has reached a landmark of over fifty new and established indie writers spread across nine books, with more to come. It is a project I was lucky enough to be involved in … Continue reading →

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The Elf king’s Thingy: Part 2

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Mark Hayes

The Elf King’s Thingy: Part II Elsewhere, and earlier.  Assil, King of the Fae bellowed with drunken anger and hurled his tankard across the throne room. His aim was off, which spoke much of how drunk he was, for the … Continue reading →

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The Elf King’s Thingy: Part 1

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Mark Hayes

The Elf King’s Thingy: Part 1 The Elderberry wine reflected the candles dancing light within it, ‘like the souls of the damned dancing in the fire’, de Manfess thought, as he stared into his chalice. The room was dark beyond … Continue reading →

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The Elf King Project

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Mark Hayes

I mentioned back in January that I have several writing projects in hand at the moment. This I know will probably comes as little surprise to anyone. While I am mainly working on the third Hannibal novel ‘A Squid on … Continue reading →

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An interruption to normal service…

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Mark Hayes

It may not have escaped regular readers of this occasionally profane whiterings that I have been somewhat absent for some time. It’s also quite possible no one noticed, as my absence from the blog has by definition created a lack … Continue reading →

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The Electric Eel’s, or the more you know, the less is true

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Mark Hayes

Electrophorus electricus, or to give it is none Latin name, the Electric Eel, is one of those things that keeps cropping up in pulp fiction’s. It’s what the harder up bond villain type puts in his shark tank, if he … Continue reading →

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Things to come… In Twenty Twenty-one

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Mark Hayes

New years resolutions are always an exercise in futility and is 2020 taught us anything, its that all plans for a year are built on foundations of sand. This time last year I wrote that I hoped to write four … Continue reading →

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Howard vs Lovecraft…

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Mark Hayes

It is a reasonably undisputable fact that HP Lovecraft is more well known now than his most of his literary contemporary’s from the golden age of pulp scifi/fantasy magazines back in the 1920’s and 30’s. Indeed, were you asked to … Continue reading →

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Harvey VI: Erupting from the grave

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Mark Hayes

Writing is a solitary activity, which suits me just fine. Anti-social introverts make good writers, and good writers tend (though not exclusively) to be anti-social introverts. This is not a bad thing, for we take flight in worlds of the … Continue reading →

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