Historical Fiction Book Extract 1: The Brittle Land
July 1914 and the world heads for the bloodiest war in history. Conflict between nations will be worldwide and loss of life counted in millions.
Historical Fiction – The Brittle Land: 1st Draft
Writing a first draft is always a daunting prospect. But if you want to be a writer, an author, a novelist, a paperback writer, whatever you want to call it, you have to write. You have to go through the hard slog of producing that first pile of...
Historical Fiction – The Brittle Land: Planning #2
I’m just over 30 chapters titled in book two the the Brittle Saga Trilogy, The Brittle Land. Another 30 entitled chapters and I’m virtually finished planning. With over 10k in words already written, I’m estimating I’ll be...
Morning Glory in the Garden
Nope, nothing to do with Oasis, though I do like the music. This is to do with a lovely climbing plant. In my Mediterranean garden I have something of a Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde plant that smothers the very life out of anything that gets in its...
The Music Years: The Faces 1972
The Faces were an English rock band formed in 1969 by surviving members of the original Small Faces lineup when their lead singer Steve Marriott, left the band to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, 17-year-old drummer Jerry Shirley and bass...
Historical Fiction – The Brittle Land: Planning #1
If you have an idea for a novel that you want to write as a piece of speculative fiction, how do you go about planning? Or indeed, do you go about planning? There are writers out there who prefer to write by the seat of their pants, the so-called...
The Music Years: Duncan Browne 1972
Every now and then you will come across something in your hopefully long life, be it a painting, an image, music or the written word, that touches a raw emotion. So it was with me in 1972 with a lovely song called Journey by the much underrated...
Historical Fiction – The Brittle Saga Timeline
The Brittle Sea is book one of a trilogy which I have called The Brittle Saga. The second book is The Brittle Land and the third is The Brittle Sky. The Brittle Sea (The Brittle Saga Trilogy Book 1) The Titanic disaster is the catalyst that...
For the Love of Writing – Some of the Greatest Authors Self-Published
There still seems to be a stigma attached to being an Indie Author. We are still looked down on as the little yappy terrier in the midst of a pack of well groomed pedigree hounds. Though why that should be is beyond me, because history tells us...
The Music Years: Thin Lizzy 1976
1976 and I’m 21 years old. My job is pretty cool. I was classed as a special executive. Sounds grand but equated to a general dogsbody, but it was a good job and well paid. But that didn’t last long as the socialist government of...
The Music Years: Bohemian Rhapsody 1979
Bohemian – a socially unconventional person, especially one who is involved in the arts. I have never been that interested in going to art galleries and studying art. I have however always wanted to paint in oils. I have also always wanted...
The Music Years: Lynyrd Skynyrd 1973
If I said, “Sweet Home Alabama” and you were familiar with American Southern Rock music, then you would probably say, “Oh yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, that band from Alabama,” or something similar. You would be right and you would...
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