Interactive Reviews featuring: Mark Lawrence I’m a huge fan of Mark Lawrence. His adept portrayal of broken but potentially still redeemable characters massively influenced my own work – which probably surprises no-one who has read The Great Hearts. I had the pleasure of meeting Mark once. In a moment of star-struck awe, I awkwardly passed …
Interactive Reviews featuring: Sarah Chorn So…I made a thing. I haphazardly like to teach myself programming and R has been the main focus of study for a little while now. I’ve found that the best way for me to learn something is to try and make small projects and so I tried to come up …
TGHIV draft 1 is 100% It’s getting closer, surely but steadily. TGHIV is out with beta readers now and the first round of editing is underway. First lot of feedback is very positive (always a great relief), so watch this space for a release date. I’m really happy with the way that the book shaped …
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The Great Hearts: The First Collection – Out Now! The first three books of the series in one epub for easy reading. Happy days!
Analysing my writing #4: The Great Hearts III Anyone who has read Shadowstrike will know that there is much more of a focus on the Emperor and seraph, so seeing them front and centre (and, of course, ONE), shouldn’t be too surprising. Shadowstrike has some pretty dark moments (shocker) and a lot of fighting, …
Analysing my writing #3: The Great Hearts II Sigh. There it is again. ONE. I’m going to have to do a separate piece entirely on how I use it within my writing… TGH2 starts to introduce us more to the Emperor and to the magic within the world of the Great Hearts, seraph, so it’s …
Analysing my writing #2: TGH1 ONE. TGH is a grimdark coming-of-age adventure. By far the darkest moments within the novel are at the beginning, a series of events that defines the protagonist’s life and shoves him on a journey to gain enough power for revenge. Interestingly, in terms of the overall number of ‘negative’ …
Analysing my writing #1: Draconis About this post: All of the analyses on this page have been completed using the R programming language. I currently work within the field of data science as a project manager and in an effort to become more technical have taken it upon myself to learn R in my spare …
Interviewed by FantasyBookCritic Last week I was invited by Mihir Wanchoo of FantasyBookCritic fame for an interview. It was a good deal of fun and it was great to really get into the details behind my writing, discussing everything from what got me started, to favourite authors and why I wrote the books I did. …
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