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Category: Speculative Fiction
The speculative fiction category includes the novel The Private Enemy (set in the future), the alternative history novel The Fourth Protectorate, and the fantasy novel Muirgealia.
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The inspirations and other information about my crime and SF works. 2019-10-28 📂 Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction 🔖 I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing Re-published The Fourth Protectorate The Private Enemy
The Private Enemy is a crime fiction novel set in the county of Norfolk in East Anglia. 2019-10-29 📂 Creative Writing Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction Language Norfolk 🔖 Dialect Re-published Story creation The Private Enemy
The Fourth Protectorate is an alternative history novel where the principle point of departure is the Brighton bomb in 1984.
2019-10-30 📂 Creative Writing Speculative Fiction 🔖 Alternative History Re-published Story creation The Fourth Protectorate
The SmashWords annual Summer/Winter book sale is back again from 1st July to 31st July 2021. My crime/SF novel “The Private Enemy” has a 75% discount and my crime fiction short story “I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing” has a 100% discount (i.e. free!) for the duration of the sale.
In a world of swords, sorcery and temporal magic, Luciana and Rupert are caught up in events that span five hundred years as two rival lost civilisations seek to restore their homelands.The 13th annual Smashwords Read an Ebook Week Sale is now on from Sunday 6th March 2022 to Saturday 12th March 2022. My crime/SF novel The Private Enemy has a 50% discount and my crime fiction short story I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing has a 100% discount (i.e. free!) for the duration of the sale.
The DRM-free ebook retailer SmashWords has their end of year sale from 15th December 2023 to 1st January 2024. My crime novel “The Private Enemy” and children’s illustrated story “The Foolish Hedgehog” both have a 50% discount and my crime fiction short story “I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing” and cybercrime fiction short story “Unsocial Media” both have a 100% discount (i.e. free!) for the duration of the sale. Did you know that you can gift ebooks on SmashWords? 2023-12-15 📂 Books Children’s Illustrated Fiction Crime Fiction Speculative Fiction 🔖 I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing News Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back! Sale The Foolish Hedgehog The Private Enemy Unsocial Media
The DRM-free ebook retailer SmashWords “Read an Ebook Week” Sale is on from 3rd–9th March 2024. My crime novel “The Private Enemy” and children’s illustrated story “The Foolish Hedgehog” both have a 50% discount and my crime fiction short story “I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing” and cybercrime fiction short story “Unsocial Media” both have a 100% discount (i.e. free!) for the duration of the sale. Did you know that you can gift ebooks on SmashWords?Search Blog
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- Illustrated fiction for young children: The Foolish Hedgehog and Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back!
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- The crime fiction category covers the crime novels The Private Enemy and The Fourth Protectorate and also the crime short stories I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing and I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing.
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- This category is about the county of Norfolk in East Anglia (the eastern bulgy bit of England). It’s where The Private Enemy is set and is also where the author lives.
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- Speculative Fiction
- The speculative fiction category includes the novel The Private Enemy (set in the future), the alternative history novel The Fourth Protectorate, and the fantasy novel Muirgealia.
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- Alternative History
- Sub-genre of speculative fiction, alternative history is “what if?” fiction.
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- A part of the creative writing process, conservation of detail essentially means that only significant information should be added to a work of fiction.
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- Dialect
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- Ex-Cathedra
- A Norfolk-based writing group.
- Fantasy
- Sub-genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements.
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- A pochette (pocket violin) with a hippo headpiece.
- I’ve Heard the Mermaid Sing
- A crime fiction short story (available as an ebook) set in the late 1920s on the RMS Aquitania. See the story’s main page for further details.
- Inspirations
- The little things that inspired the author’s stories.
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- Muirgealia
- A fantasy novel. See the book’s main page for further details.
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- Quack, Quack, Quack. Give My Hat Back!
- Information about the illustrated children’s book. See the book’s main page for further details.
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- Smile for the Camera
- A cybercrime short story about CCTV operator monitoring a store’s self-service tills who sees too much information.
- Story creation
- The process of creating stories.
- TeX Live
- The Briefcase
- A crime fiction short story (available as an ebook). See the story’s main page for further details.
- The Foolish Hedgehog
- Information about the illustrated children’s book. See the book’s main page for further details.
- The Fourth Protectorate
- Alternative history novel set in 1980s/90s London. See the book’s main page for further details.
- The Private Enemy
- A crime/speculative fiction novel set in a future Norfolk run by gangsters. See the book’s main page for further details.
- Unsocial Media
- A cybercrime fiction short story (available as an ebook). See the story’s main page for further details.
- World Book Day
- World Book Day (UK and Ireland) is an annual charity event held in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland on the first Thursday in March. It’s a local version of the global UNESCO World Book Day.
- World Homeless Day
- World Homeless Day is marked every year on 10 October to draw attention to the needs of people experiencing homelessness.