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The Friday round up of fabulous stuff

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Mark Hayes

I’ve not done one of these for a while, but sometimes it just nice to kick back and talk about some great things in the world. We don’t do that enough. First up, while last weekend was difficult for personal … Continue reading →

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The Elf King’s Thingy part 6

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Mark Hayes

The Elf King’s Thingy Part VI The sun was shining on a late October morning. The sky was the kind of blue that spoke of a hot summers day or a cold winters night to come, as ever autumn was … Continue reading →

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The Elf King’s Thingy part 4

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Mark Hayes

The Elf King’s Thingy Part IV Back where we started deManfess was listening to one side of the conversation being held over the ancient Bakelite phone… “What?” “I see, and you wish us to investigate, this… occurrence?” “Yes…” “A what? … Continue reading →

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Brief reviews of wonderfulness #1

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Mark Hayes

I have been known on occasion to promise to write a review for fellow authors. I have some fair firm rules on these promises, in that I don’t write a review unless I genuinely like what I’m reviewing. If I … 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 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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A Harvey Christmas to all

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Mark Hayes

Christmas is coming, the goose is looking worriedly at the chopping block, good will to all men, women, and those who define themselves as neither. the fat bloke in red with a beard you could lose reindeers in is preparing … Continue reading →

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The November Indie reads pile

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Mark Hayes

October came and went with twelve books, as i revisited David & Lynn Eddings grand opus as I am want to do every decade or so. As an exercise, rereading a huge fantasy epic with the eyes of a writer … Continue reading →

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