Using side stories for #promotion

May 2, 2022 | Blogroll

Using side stories to help promote a main novel. This isn’t the same as when readers of a novel urges you to write a sequel. A side story might be in the same time line and characters and settings might be referenced but it shouldn’t depend on the main...

Why am I answering the door to myself?

Apr 29, 2022 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction

What if you open your front door to find yourself staring back? Not a long lost identical twin but a kind of doppelganger intent on doing you harm and taking your place. But why? How to keep them out of your house? Who would believe you’re the real you? Thanks...

X-rays from sticky tape!

Jan 29, 2022 | Blogroll

Interesting science fact of the week. Sellotape can generate X-Rays. Apparently when sticky tape is peeled off (not Elastoplast on a cut finger, but the tape you use to wrap my presents with) X-Rays can be produced. Known as triboluminescence and seen in the form of...
#Tsunami Risks for me

#Tsunami Risks for me

Jan 19, 2022 | Blogroll

One snag I knew about before moving from Chester to Trafford in Greater Manchester is that I’ve only raised my house by 5 metres. My Chester house was at 17m above sea level. My Flixton house is at 22m asl. Hopeless for long term global warming and for tsunamis. If...

Best #bizarro fiction

Dec 19, 2021 | Blogroll

I blogged Ira Nayman’s BAD ACTORS this Autumn but I didn’t leave a review from my own reading. Here it is. Hang on to your hats. Published in October 2021 by Elsewhen Press Strap yourself in when reading this hilarious, bizarro scifi adventurous mystery...

#Parallel Universe story

Sep 21, 2021 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction

Out of this world, into the next. Are there an infinite number of universes? Possibly, or probably if you’re a quantum mathematician. If you’re a science fiction writer let’s have some anyway. Two likely lads race up a Macclesfield sandstone knoll known as Tegg’s...