April - June 2018: Go Fourth

It has been a fantastic quarter. I am now the author of FOUR books, after being stuck on three books since October 2015. It felt good to be posting links to Amazon once again.

Highlight
I published my second short story collection, Boomsticks, which contains 14 stories including a 40,000-word novella set within my Nephos world. I already have two reviews, one of which states: "The author cites Stephen King, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman as key inspirations, and their influence is clearly seen and, most importantly, done justice!"

Lowlight
I crashed out of JuNoWriMo with fewer than 20,000 words. My productivity was shamefully derailed by two epic stags weekends. But on the bright side, those stag weekends let me coasteer, throw axes and shoot an arsenal of guns. Worth it!

I have read...

• Nothing.
• I abandoned reading completely to focus on writing.
• However, I have recently started reading The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso.

I have blogged...

• The Book Club: Meeting up in Birmingham

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I have written...

• 53,564 words towards Nephos 3, meaning the total word count so far is a whopping 176,894 words, longer than Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Out and about

• I attended The Book Club meet-up in Birmingham. I posted my Top 10 highlights.
• I judged the Birmingham Writers' Group Summer Competition.

Dates to remember

• 27th June - National Writing Day

AOB
I am attending Edge-Lit for the first ever time. Less than two weeks to go!

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