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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."
Actually, I almost forgot, but thankfully my sense returned in time. How could I even begin to forget such an important day? Yes, today is the launch of my serial novella A ‘Verse Full of Scum. If you go to the Serial Novella page (fourth button down on the left) you’ll find the first...
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It really bothers me when people have no idea when or how to use a certain kind of punctuation, so they overcompensate. There’s a lot of it about, but probably the two worst offenders in this category are apostrophes and quotation marks. Well, actually, the apostrophes and quotation marks themselves have done absolutely nothing...
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I got this email from my sister-in-law, Bogna. Speaking of amusing signs, here’s one we saw in Bombala, on the way between Lake’s Entrance and Broulee. They have a war memorial swimming pool in town, which is in itself quite amusing. I imagine that the council decided they couldn’t afford both a swimming pool...
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But hopefully none of you have noticed. If you look at the address bar of your browser, you’ll notice that this site is now at the url www.alanbaxteronline.com rather than where it used to be at www.alanbaxter.info. This has happened for a couple of reasons, but primarily because a lot of sites like MySpace...
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But there’s always time for a funny sign. We went out to the Marconi Club in Bosley Park to do a Chinese New Year performance last night. While we were waiting to start I noticed this sign. You might want to think twice about leaving your preschoolers with these guys while you throw away...
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You have to love people getting on the band wagon with a topical special to raise sales. As you have probably seen for yourselves, there are numerous Chinese New Year specials around at the moment. This one, however, really caught my eye: Happy Chinese New Year Lunch Special Thai Style Are they deliberately having...
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Sorry things have been a bit quiet around here of late. It’s Chinese New Year this week and, in my other capacity as a Kung Fu student and instructor, this is a crazy busy time for us. So things may stay a bit quiet for another week or so yet. Happy Chinese New Year...
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Words and stories fascinate me. Our world is built on language and storytelling. Without stories, we are nothing.
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