You may remember that there’s been a Facebook competition going on for a signed copy of RealmShift, run through the Facebook group, Book Lover’s Club. It started with this great review of RealmShift, then the Club asked people to suggest topics for me to blog about. The topic that I liked best would win...
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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"
The Darkest Shade Of Grey
You can tell the story.
"...stunning supernatural noir..."
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: December 2010
Facebook competition winner and other suggestions
New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 4 – Chuck McKenzie, bookseller
My posts about the new age of publishing continue apace. This time I have a post that I think is awesome. Chuck McKenzie is a great guy and a personal friend. He’s also a writer but, more importantly in this context, he’s a bookseller. One of the traditional, old-school kind that sells actual paper...
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New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 3 – Mark Coker cross-post
In my continuing series of guest posts about the changing face of publishing, I couldn’t resist cross-posting this one. Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, was recently interviewed by Jeff Rivera at MediaBistro. He was asked for his ten book publishing predictions for 2011. Mark said I could pick up the first five from his...
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New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 2 – Moriah Jovan
In my ongoing end of year series of posts about the new face of publishing, I present a repost here of an article by Moriah Jovan. Following on from Angela Slatter’s post about her Smashwords journey, Moriah talks about the disappearance of the page as a concept. This post first appeared at B10 Mediaworx...
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Last chance to win a signed copy of RealmShift
Well, the last chance for now, at least. This is just a quick reminder that Book Lover’s Club on Facebook is featuring RealmShift at the moment and they’re running a contest to win a signed copy. Head over to their page here, click the Like button and leave a comment where you see the...
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ThrillerCast with Trent Jamieson
The latest episode of the ThrillerCast podcast is now available. In this episode I review Trent Jamieson’s awsome debut novel Death Most Definite, then Dave and I interview Trent himself. We talk about the book, about urban fantasy thrillers, about writing in various person/tense and lots of other stuff. Check it out here. .
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New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 1 – Angela Slatter
Over the next few weeks I’m going to host a handful of guest posts from writers, publishers and booksellers talking about the new face of publishing. The world is changing and all aspects of writing and publishing are being affected by the increased digitisation of all aspects of the craft and business. I thought...
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Unimagined by Imran Ahmad – review
I mentioned recently that I was planning to read one non-genre novel for every SF novel I read. With that in mind I’ve just read Unimagined by Imran Ahmad. My wife recommend it to me – “It’s nothing life changing, but I enjoyed it.” It’s billed as “a Muslim boy meets the West” and...
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ThrillerCast episodes up
I’ve been a bit remiss in reminding people about the new episodes of ThrillerCast, the podcast I do with fellow author David Wood. While the podcast is essentially about reading, writing and publishing in the thriller genre, there’s a lot of cross-genre talk and all kinds of other interesting stuff. Since I last mentioned...
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A Game Of Thrones – George R R Martin
I mentioned before that I was finally reading this massive epic fantasy series by George R R Martin. Basically, I’ve had the books for ages, buying them because it was something I wanted to read, but putting off the actual reading until the series was finished. I don’t like to be left hanging. But...
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A great review for Xmas
Those lovely people over at Book Lover’s Club, a group on Facebook, have reviewed RealmShift. Here’s an excerpt: RealmShift builds pace as the story progresses, rocketing us towards the ultimate showdown, never releasing us from its grip until the climax. Not only is it thought-provoking in its exploration of religious beliefs, but contains magic,...
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Culturomics – 500 billion words start a trend
My brother-in-law sent me this one from the New York Times (thanks Ade!) and it blew me away. I’m guessing that people already know about the controversial project by Google to digitise every book in the world. If you don’t, it’s easy to find out a bit about it. Just Google it. *sigh* Now,...
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Advertising in ebooks – an inevitable outcome
I made a passing comment on Twitter yesterday that led to some heated discussion. My comment was this: Ebooks will soon carry links, photos, video, etc. They will also, in order to really monetize the medium, contain ads. Which I followed with this tweet: Your ebook will start in 60 seconds, after these messages...
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52 Stitches in memoriam for Jamie Eyberg
This is a bittersweet moment for me. On the one hand, it’s excellent that this new anthology is now available. On the other, it’s a sad reminder of the death of Jamie Eyberg and his wife, Ann. All proceeds from the sales of this book will go into a fund for Jamie and Ann’s...
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Nerdy index
Driving up to Sydney today I found myself behind this car. I had a moment of nerd envy.
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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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