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Tag Archives: writerslife
Blyton and Lovecraft
“What’s the weirdest thing you have discovered today mark?”
Why, I am glad you asked… Continue reading
Posted in amreading, books, cthulhu, dreamlands, Lovecraft
Tagged book-review, books, cthulhu, fiction, Lovecraft, reading, reads, writerslife, writing
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Nailing my colours to the mast
This is a rant, I make no apologise for this. If you don’t wish to read a rant then you should just stop here, but it is, I feel, an important rant. I also stand by ever word. Originally this … Continue reading
Posted in amwriting, indie writers, indiewriter, rant, Uncategorized, writes, writing
Tagged AI, artificial-intelligence, books, fiction, rant, writer, writerslife, writing
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The Creation of Strange Worlds
Did I really want to delve back into the mind of Howard Philips Lovecraft? Continue reading
Posted in amwriting, books, dreamlands, horror, Lovecraft, sci-fi, writing
Tagged book-review, books, fiction, horror, Lovecraft, writers, writerslife, writing
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Oh… you’re just self-published?
Oh… your self published, that’s wonderful, tell me about your book… Continue reading
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Maybe, just maybe…
A storm is brewing in the mid Atlantic and the airship Maybe’s Daughter is caught up in the middle of it. Benjamin West is hanging from a cargo net after someone tried to kill him. Eliza Tu-Pa-KA is trying to save the airship, unaware of West’s plight. Meanwhile in a realm beyond the mortal world, the soul of a dead man faces a stark choice.
Hopefully Perkins will put the kettle on before it all goes too far… Continue reading
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Barbaric Pottery and Things of That Nature
That said however, skulls are bones. Ergo, if you learn the porters art and find yourself not entirely burdened by moralistic constraints it is possible to drink from the skulls of your enemies. in the most civilized British way imaginable.. Continue reading
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Tagged art, books, food, pagan, reads, technology, witchcraft, writerslife
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Dear Edgar 51 ~ The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq
There is such a thing as a literary in joke. A private reference within a story that only those in the know will appreciate. Such things are oft times carefully constructed in such as way that the sit in the … Continue reading
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Casting Auguries
I have other stories to write, other tales to tell, more blood to shed. These are now told and the blood is ingrained in the pages. Euryale guards her temple, the last survivor climbs the hill, the Men in Dark Tweed are waiting, the final proof of god sits between the light of four stars on a planet called midnight, the book herder waits for the rustle of pages, the Sibel calls her coven to dance around the stone, and Miss Maybe has a most unsuitable suitor. All the while no man waits for the daughter of the sea. Continue reading
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The Publishing Iceberg
Or of all the typos in the world why did you have to walk into mine… Continue reading
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