My thanks again to James for helping me get this website sorted out after the horrible crash of two weeks ago. You’ll see there’s a new theme in place. Rather swanky too, I think. We’ll be working on customising this over the next few weeks, so I hope you like it. Our travels around...
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Books By Alan
Click on book covers for reviews, previews and purchase options.
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: June 2010
New theme and radio silence
Writers Of The Future Honourable Mention
For the first time ever I entered a story in the Writers Of The Future competition. The thing takes a fair while to turn around, with entries going into a quarterly judging period. Winners of each quarter battle it out at the end of the year. My first effort just scored me an Honourable...
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Horror discussed on The Book Show on ABC
Earlier this year Kim Westwood, Paul Haines and myself were interviewed for ABC National Radio. Paul and I were discussing horror and whether it is flavoured by Australian culture, while Kim led a discussion on the nature of dystopia in speculative fiction. You can listen to or download the interview here. I haven’t had...
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Movies on a plane
Long haul travel is always good for catching up on missed films. On our recent flight I watched: Alice In Wonderland – meh. I was fairly underwhelmed by this one. I really hoped I’d enjoy it more. Sherlock Holmes – strangely, I thought I wouldn’t like this, but I loved it. The black magic...
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Travelling the world while shit hits the fan
First off, my heartfelt thanks to my web guru James, who saved this site when the upgrade to 3.0 smashed the theme format. Not only that, he even dropped a post to let you all know what was happening. Thanks Jim! I’m currently in Edinburgh, having just arrived 34 hours after leaving home. We...
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The Word
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 by clicking About Alan just below the header.
Words and stories fascinate me. 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 to alan [at]alanbaxteronline[dot]com
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