Valiant - a Dystopian Age gamebook
100 Aker Wood on Kickstarter
Thursday, 14 January 2016
Monday, 11 January 2016
Sunday, 10 January 2016
Thought for the Day
“From our positions as individual creators, whether of fiction or non-fiction, we authors see a landscape occupied by several large interests, some of them gathering profits in the billions, some of them displaying a questionable attitude to paying tax, some of them colonising the Internet with projects whose reach is limitless and whose attitude to creators’ rights is roughly that of the steamroller to the ant.“It’s a daunting landscape, far more savage and hostile to the author than any we’ve seen before. But one thing hasn’t changed, which is the ignored, unacknowledged, but complete dependence of those great interests on us and on our talents and on the work we do in the quiet of our solitude. They have enormous financial and political power, but no creative power whatsoever. Whether we’re poets, historians, writers of cookery books, novelists, travel writers, that comes from us alone. We originate the material they exploit.”
~ Philip Pullman
Saturday, 9 January 2016
Short Story Saturday: Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu and the BFS Awards 2016
22 days from now, the Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu Kickstarter will conclude at 1.00pm GMT on Monday 1st February.
We are currently £1,400 from the initial funding goal, with 120+ backers, but, as they say, the more the merrier!* Once we reach the initial goal we will then unlock the first of the Stretch Goals, which will be to produce some awesome artwork for the book.
Over 400 people backed my first successful Kickstarter. Over 200 backed Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland. Seeing as this is going to be a book featuring mash-ups of Shakespeare's greatest plays and H P Lovecraft's most terrifying creations, I would hope we could attract more backers than those two other projects put together, but it relies on people helping to spread the word and let other potential backers know that the project is currently live on Kickstarter.
In other short story news, the British Fantasy Awards 2016 are currently seeking suggestions for the long lists. If you look, you will notice that both SHARKPUNK and GAME OVER are on the list for Best Anthology, and that the short stories featured within all feature under the Best Short Story category.**
Whether any of them get any further than the long list remains to be seen, so watch this space...
* The same goes for Amazon reviews!
** Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland also appears under the Best Fantasy Novel, but I doubt it will get any further than that. There isn't a category for Best Adventure Gamebook. Maybe there should be...
We are currently £1,400 from the initial funding goal, with 120+ backers, but, as they say, the more the merrier!* Once we reach the initial goal we will then unlock the first of the Stretch Goals, which will be to produce some awesome artwork for the book.
Over 400 people backed my first successful Kickstarter. Over 200 backed Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland. Seeing as this is going to be a book featuring mash-ups of Shakespeare's greatest plays and H P Lovecraft's most terrifying creations, I would hope we could attract more backers than those two other projects put together, but it relies on people helping to spread the word and let other potential backers know that the project is currently live on Kickstarter.
In other short story news, the British Fantasy Awards 2016 are currently seeking suggestions for the long lists. If you look, you will notice that both SHARKPUNK and GAME OVER are on the list for Best Anthology, and that the short stories featured within all feature under the Best Short Story category.**
Whether any of them get any further than the long list remains to be seen, so watch this space...
* The same goes for Amazon reviews!
** Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland also appears under the Best Fantasy Novel, but I doubt it will get any further than that. There isn't a category for Best Adventure Gamebook. Maybe there should be...
Monday, 4 January 2016
Saturday, 2 January 2016
Short Story Saturday: Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu featured on Kickstarter today!
My current Kickstarter campaign - Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu - is the featured project on the KS Publishing page today.
Why not check it out for yourself, pledge your support, and then tell the world?
Why not check it out for yourself, pledge your support, and then tell the world?
Friday, 1 January 2016
Happy New Kickstarter!
Currently live on Kickstarter is my latest crowdfunding project - Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu!
Shakespeare's greatest plays clash with H P Lovecraft's most terrifying creations in the genre mash-up of the year!
Imagine if it had been William Shakespeare, England’s greatest playwright, who had discovered the truth about the Great Old Ones and the cosmic entity we know as Cthulhu, rather than the American author H P Lovecraft.
Imagine if Stratford’s favourite son had been the one to learn of the dangers of seeking after forbidden knowledge and of the war waged between the Elder Gods in the Outer Darkness, and had passed on that message, to those with the eyes to see it, through his plays and poetry.
Welcome to the world of Shakespearean Cthulhu!
Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu is an anthology of short stories featuring tales that are a mash-up of the Cthulhu Mythos and Shakespeare’s most popular plays - as well as the world in which he lived - written by some of the top genre authors in the business, to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, on 23rd April 2016.
There is no better time to produce such a book as this, and that is why we need your help in spreading the word now! The Kickstarter will conclude one month day, at 1.00pm GMT on Monday 1st February 2016.
Shakespeare's greatest plays clash with H P Lovecraft's most terrifying creations in the genre mash-up of the year!
Imagine if it had been William Shakespeare, England’s greatest playwright, who had discovered the truth about the Great Old Ones and the cosmic entity we know as Cthulhu, rather than the American author H P Lovecraft.
Imagine if Stratford’s favourite son had been the one to learn of the dangers of seeking after forbidden knowledge and of the war waged between the Elder Gods in the Outer Darkness, and had passed on that message, to those with the eyes to see it, through his plays and poetry.
Welcome to the world of Shakespearean Cthulhu!
Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu is an anthology of short stories featuring tales that are a mash-up of the Cthulhu Mythos and Shakespeare’s most popular plays - as well as the world in which he lived - written by some of the top genre authors in the business, to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, on 23rd April 2016.
There is no better time to produce such a book as this, and that is why we need your help in spreading the word now! The Kickstarter will conclude one month day, at 1.00pm GMT on Monday 1st February 2016.
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