I have just completed a 13410 word draft of “Electricity”, a spicy, not-quite-horror, not-quite-fantasy love story (I’ll probably go with it being a magic-realism love story.), I absolutely loved creating these characters: Sam, Francesca, Annabelle and Creature. Aly
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Novella drafted
Sorted! My latest short story has gone through several changes of title (it was ‘Cold Numbers’ but is currently ‘Eve of Tomorrow’) and grown to be the novella it was always meant to be. Draft completed at 27,715 words. It is the second story written for my collection “All One People.” and my first proper […]
February writing update
It’s been an on-off month writing-wise. I’ve mainly been concentrating on stories for my ‘One Beautiful People’ collection. One of these is Cold Numbers, a rare Sci-Fi offering originally conceived as a separate piece but that has refused to be tied down as a shortie. It is now novella length and still has a few […]
January writing update
So what am I working on? Well, it’s high time I finished The Throne of Hades, book 7 of the Forgotten Wings series. The book is basicaly written and I am starting the second wave of edits now. After that, I have plans for three other collections along the lines of Arrows at the Rainbow. […]
Latest on my Goodreads page
A big thank you to all those who have read and rated my books, particularly to those who have taken the time to write a review. It can be hard work getting any kind of traction in the book market, particularly if, like me, you don’t have great marketing skills or resources to plough into […]
Website Icon selected
I have today designed a new icon for my website. It is based around the O-O in my 2nd surname (Brooker) which are looped together in my favourite font that I use on book covers and webpage headers. Hopefully, it will be more identifiable and memorable! Aly
I totally blew up my blog posts!
The horror! Okay, so I detonated a data H Bomb (B for Blog Bomb?) on my blog pages and eradicated them from the whole of space and time. This is just to let you know that I am now rebuidng this part of the site and I hope to update you with all the things […]