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Focussing on the Fun Stuff

Summer is ending and autumn, my favourite season, approaches.

August has seen plenty of ice-cream (mint choc chip if you’re wondering) and summer walks; along with the following two releases:

The Promise (ebook)

Beasties - Collection One (paperback containing four monstrous stories).

After a short experiment with YouTube, I decided to pause that side-project for the foreseeable future. The amount of time spent prepping and building video files was taking far too much time away from the fun stuff of writing and developing stories, ideas, and characters.

Some excerpt videos and the welcome videos will still be visible via the website; however, I’ve hidden them from random discovery on YouTube itself. One day I may resurrect the narrated stories project and still have many audio files for several stories yet to process.

During September and October, my plan is to publish the following:

-          The Bushgreave (ebook)

-          The Duskwood Ribticklers (ebook)

-          Fables – Collection One (paperback containing five of the current stories available)

In addition to those I’ll be advancing the following story manuscripts:

-          Don’t Feed the Ferrets

-          Night Strife

-          Trundlebug

Another busy and creative period awaits and therefore my next blog entry will be posted on Sunday, October 26th just prior to one of my favourite celebrations, Halloween.

Additionally, I'm going to examine migrating blog posts to my own site as the Blogger interface (clunky and unfriendly) is driving me to the edge of insanity!
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