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 […]
The wonder of naming your characters
Naming a character is the author’s act of creation, of giving a soul to a concept born from the ‘DNA’ made of a chain of her words. Introduction Characters can’t breathe until they have a name that you believe in, and they can’t walk, talk or impact the world you are imagining them in unless […]
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
Three
Here is a short story dug out from my archives. Enjoy! Knock. Knock. Knock. Jack Mallard waited to hear the “Come in”, pushed open the door and entered the office of Hilary Bennett, MD. After brief introductions he took the offered seat in front of a tidy, modern desk and told the doctor why he […]
Award system for struggling authors
If you write, then you deserve credit. Every word counts. So do you.
A matter of perspective in storytelling
What are the advantages of writing in either 1st or 3rd person perspectives and should we be able to use either when we want or even switch between perspectives within a story? What do we mean by ‘perspective’ in a story Telling a story requires all sort of things to be put in place. You […]
Sunrise in Valencia (poem)
This is a poem written about the final hours of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) who was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. He became well known for his service in the armies of both Christian and Muslim rulers. After years of successful campaigns, El Cid ended […]
Does sex in fantasy stories have to be fantasy sex?
All sex scenes in creative literature are fantasy! As writers, we are not here to offer our readers boring encounters. Who on Earth needs that? We have to engage imagination and passion. Pump up the excitement. Guild it with magical romance. This is true for whatever type of fiction you write. It is just that in fantasy […]
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 […]