But I like to play a thief! (Or sometimes a Paladin.) Cleric is the most boring option out there 🙁 I Am A: Lawful Good Human Cleric (6th Level) Ability Scores: Strength-11 Dexterity-11 Constitution-10 Intelligence-11 Wisdom-13 Charisma-12 Alignment: Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act….
My daughter went to the midnight screening in London, and my son went to see it immediately after his drama exam at the matinee today. Daughter says “just as good as Iron Man 2”, and son says “it was OK, but we missed the first ten minutes and I never figured out what was going…
I guess the big news is the new Thor trailer To which my major reaction is What the hell have they done to Malekith? This is what Malekith looks like in the comics and this is what he looks like in the trailer Why? Are they afraid we won’t know he’s evil unless he’s ugly?…
You know what I hate? I hate this modern style of over-active prose. I just opened a book this morning. It sounded great – it’s about mysterious goings on in Istanbul, cults and relics and stuff. All things which have appealed to me since the first Indiana Jones film. But, damn, the style. All short…
Most of what I have to say on this subject, I have already said in an earlier post in which I was vehement about voice. I decided to repeat that here, and add a little bit on the bottom about how you develop your voice. If there was one thing that came out of the…
All the “S”s today 🙂 Blurb Damn it, a man shouldn’t always have to be afraid… Alec Goodchilde has everything a man could want—except the freedom to be himself. Once a year, he motors down to an exclusive yacht club on the Cornish coast and takes the summer off from the trap that is his…
In reply to my “help, I can’t think of anything to blog about!” post recently, Wulfila asked my opinion on “the current development of the self-publishing vs. traditional publishing situation”. I’ve been lucky enough to try all three types of publishing. Running Press, who published False Colors was a biggish traditional mainstream publisher. Most of…
finishing incorporating the points made by the lovely Megan Derr and Bimo into my final draft of The Glass Floor, which frankly is much better for them. While I was doing that, I spotted some anomalies of my own, such as ‘if Radu can’t see magic, how come he can see the magical forcefield at…
I think of this review. It was initially published quite a while back on Goodreads, when I was a new author and wet behind the ears. Now the reviewer has put it on his own, excellent, review site, and I feel more justified in sharing it. This review and the conversation I had about it…
On the one hand, conceptually it’s not earthshatteringly new. There must be millions of two-blokes above scene covers out there. On the other hand, I still really like it. Happily, I couldn’t quite get the word count on this one above 60,001 words without making a deliberate decision to pad it. So I left it…
