Click on book covers for reviews and previews.
RealmShift
"an inventive and action-packed story"
"a gripping, thought-provoking tale"
"a novel I am loath to put down. A most surprising read. Quite a ride"
"fast-paced and engrossing"
"RealmShift is phenomenal. If it’s not already on your bookshelf it should be."
MageSign
"a fast-paced ride through a visceral reality"
"a fast paced supernatural adventure that will leave readers rethinking how they view the Cosmos"
"a gritty tale of blood rituals, mystery, and mysticism… grabs hold of the reader and doesn’t let go"
"fantastic qualities … horrific at times... I highly recommend it"
"Alan Baxter takes the reader right to the edge and then pushes us over. And I thank him for it."
Ghost Of The Black
"Excellent pacing"
"I’ve found myself not wanting to stop reading"
"Everything about it is bang on"
"very, very readable."
The Japanese have always been famous for doing everything smaller. They usually do it better, too, but not in this instance. The younger generation of Japanese have taken to a new method of writing novels using their mobile phones. Already the mobile phone is more popular among Japanese youth than PCs or laptops and...
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A good friend of mine, Deb, sent me an email recently with all sorts of reworked book covers. I haven’t had a big belly laugh for a while, but, for some reason, I had one when I saw this: Man, that cracked me up. .
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It’s enough of a stretch to divide the entire population of the globe by twelve and then try to convince everyone that they will have shared experiences with their particular twelfth. Of course, astrologers will tell you that that’s only tabloid astrology and the real stuff is when you take all the details, right...
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Is there a bigger writing phenomenon than J K Rowling? Has there ever been a bigger one? Amazon, the greatest internet bookstore in the world, has just happily announced that it has bought a book from Rowling for 1.95 million pounds. That’s pounds sterling. Nearly two million of them. For one book. Fortunately, Rowling...
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A couple of recent updates to The Word might interest you, dear reader. Firstly, I’ve added my short story The Night Bus to the Dark Shorts page. Most of you that are interested will probably have already read this last month at The Harrow, where it was published in the December edition. However, now...
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I was walking past my favourite church yesterday. It’s my favourite purely because of the ridiculous signs they always put up. They’ve surpassed themselves this time. This church is not full of hypocrites. There’s always room for more. The sign is qualified by a quote at the bottom which reads, “Romans 3:10 ‘No one...
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It happens all the time. Somebody coins a phrase that is both useful and extremely clear. It illustrates the point perfectly. So everyone else wants a go. Then we get the situation where certain words and phrases are so overused that they become at first comical and subsequently infuriating. The word that has been...
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Words and stories fascinate me. Our world is built on language and storytelling. Without stories, we are nothing.
This is The Word - 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 to alan [at]alanbaxteronline[dot]com
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