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.”
I think I love Christopher Nolan a little bit. He’s made some of my favourite movies of all time – Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight. I am constantly going on about the homogenous rubbish coming out of Hollywood and lamenting that there are no clever, interesting, new stories being made...
Read More »
I found this via Cat Sparks and Jason Fischer who themselves found it on the Ban Comic Sans site. Those three links alone are worth the price of this post, but check out the video. Nerdy font based fun. It’s brilliant. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. .
Read More »
Here’s a little something I’m quite excited about. On October 31st, which as you all know is Halloween, there’s going to be a little horror-fest at Dymocks Southland bookstore. A bunch of us dark writer folk are going to be doing a group book signing there in celebration of all things… well, dark. It’s...
Read More »
Margo Lanagan is a great spec fic writer from Sydney. She’s incredibly talented and quite justifiably well recognised for her work. Recently you may remember me talking about her novella Sea Hearts in the X6 Novellanthology from Coeur De Lion. Her latest novel is Tender Morsels, published by Allen & Unwin in Australia, Knopf...
Read More »
It’s a good time for Australian speculative fiction at the moment. There are a bunch of new books coming out or recently released by awesome Aussie authors. Some of these people I’m lucky enough to count among my friends and some of them I don’t know personally, but know them as their reputation in...
Read More »
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
Click the icon above to add this blog to your feed and never miss a post.
------------------------------
------------------------------
TOP POSTS OF OLD
Listen to my podcast: 
Myself and fellow Gryphonwood Press author, David Wood, talk about reading, writing and publishing in the thriller, action-adventure and speculative fiction genres.
Receive an email whenever The Word is updated. Enter your email address:
This website is archived by the National Library of Australia's Web Archive
