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RealmShift
A race against time and the Devil
"RealmShift is phenomenal. If it’s not already on your bookshelf it should be."
MageSign
Believe in the blood 
"a gritty tale of blood rituals, mystery, and mysticism… grabs hold of the reader and doesn’t let go"
Ghost Of The Black
"Everything about it is bang on"
Write The Fight Right
“The best way for a writer to learn what’s really involved in brawling, short of going down the pub and starting something.”
I met some friends at the pub last night and I saw this poster that I thought was priceless. You can WIN 100′s of thousands of dollar$ in cash & prizes! Then look in the bottom righthand corner. 1st place $150, 2nd place $50. You can wins hundreds of thousands of dollar$ but you’d...
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Here are a couple more classics from those geniuses that think you can billboard faith. The first comes from the Springwood Presbyterian Church in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Would you worship Jesus if he scored 10,000 test runs? Certainly not. He’d probably be playing for Nazareth. And then he’d no doubt turn...
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It’s a well known fact that many very famous quotes from the worlds greatest movie stars were never actually uttered by those stars. Sylvester Stallone never said, “Don’t push me!” in First Blood. He actually asked, quite calmly, “Why are you pushing me?” More recently he may have asked Australian authorities, “Why are you...
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Every now and then I go past a big shop window with huge, brightly painted letters saying: MASSIVE PERSIAN RUG SALE HERE! Or something similar. I know it’s my pedantism, but it always occurs to me that sentences like this are ambiguous. Is it the sale or the rugs that are massive? It could...
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Have a look at this weeks front page headline from the Woking Review: Yes, it really does say Moves to block tip flats plan. It might seem as though someone took a handful of random letters from the Scrabble bag and made words from them. Then someone that doesn’t speak English chose the order...
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Welcome to the website of author Alan Baxter.
I write dark fantasy, sci fi and horror, ride a motorcycle and love my dog. I also teach Kung Fu, hence the Warrior Scribe tag above. A friend once referred to me that way and I liked it, so it stuck. Learn all about me and my work by clicking About Alan just below the header.
Our world is built on language and storytelling. Without stories, we are nothing.
The Word is a place to learn more about me, my stories and the words of others. Click the links along the top for all kinds of stuff, search the sidebars for loads of other stuff, click on book covers for reviews and previews, enjoy the blog and don't be shy to share your words, in comments or send me an email:
alan [at]alanbaxteronline[dot]com
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