Updats on progress - new books and short stories

 Ahh the vagaries of being an author. You sweat blood, tears and the beer you need to compose your manuscript.

Then it dawns on you that you need to format it, upload it to  website such as Amazon, fill in the forms, publish and then market it.

If you have managed to snag an agent, or even a publisher they do all that hard work, but independent authors who self-publish can be identified by the nervous tics spreading across their face.

Such as my sixth book, Fist Can Be A Verb. Managed to make it available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, but it is trying screw with me preventing it uploading as a paperback...It will not beat me.

Anyway Fist Can Be A Verb is an anti-anthology, a mash up of flash fiction, rants, essays, short stories and random bad poetry (i'm not selling it, am I?).

I'm currently working on the sequel to Earl Black and the Daemons of the British Empire, which will once again see Jennings battle the evil supernatural beings.

While I'm toiling through the horrors of Victorian era England I've been writing short stories for a future collection. The first of these is in the bonus content of Fist Can Be A Verb.

The second is available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. It is titled Dying In A Drowning World/

Two more are also underway. Suffice to say one is called Warrior of Heaven..

All my books are available on Amazon.

And apropos of nothing here is a picture of R2-D2 holding a copy of Earl Black...



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