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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Books By Alan
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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.”
Monthly Archives: February 2008
A ‘Verse Full of Scum begins today
It annoys me, so it probably annoys you too
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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A Word from my sister-in-law
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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There’s been a change
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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I told you I was going to be busy
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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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.
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