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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"
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.”
Here’s another in my series of guest posts discussing the changing face of publishing. In this one, dark fiction author Shane Jiraiya Cummings talks about his ‘grand experiment’. He’s decided to leap with both feet into the ebook self-publishing world and make the majority of his previously published work (and a couple of new...
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Timely news given my New Age of Publishing series of guest blogs currently running. The figures are a bit messy as hardbacks aren’t included, but overall sales of paid Kindle books are outselling paperback books at a ratio of 115:100 through Amazon.com. The company says: Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback...
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My series of posts looking at the changing face of publishing continues. This time I’ve got a post from Benjamin Solah. Ben is an emerging writer from Melbourne. He’s also a poet and activist. He’s been dipping his toe into the murky waters of publishing’s new world and writes a bit here about his...
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“When Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead, the Apostles took stone from his tomb as a symbol of their brotherhood. At Pentecost, the fires of the Holy Spirit empowered the stones and the Apostles performed miracles in God’s name throughout the Empire. Forged in the fire and blood of the Christian martyrs, the...
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The title of this post says it all, really. I’ve been keen to have a book trailer for RealmShift for ages but just not got around to it. Recently I decided to make it a priority and started looking into it more seriously. And that made me wonder – would it really help to...
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There’s this thing Google have put together which is really addictive. It’s called Ngrams. Essentially, when you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books. You can set various parametres of time, which types/language of books are searched and...
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Okay, I’ve been going on about this book a lot lately, but that’s because: 1. It’s gonna be a great book; 2. I’m in it; 3. More importantly, LOADS of other great writers have stories in it. For those not able to make it to the launch of Dead Red Heart in Perth, you...
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It’s been a while since I did one of these posts and they’re fun, so I thought it time for another. Using Google Analytics, I keep track of the various hits to my website here. I can track what are the popular posts, how long people stick around, where they come from and so...
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A couple of days ago I posted the Table of Contents for the Ticonderoga Publications anthology, Dead Red Heart, featuring my story, Punishment Of The Sun. I neglected to mention that the book will be launched in April at SwanCon, which is NatCon 50, in Perth. I’ll be heading over to Perth for that...
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I mentioned in a post yesterday that my short story, Punishment Of The Sun, will be included in the Ticonderoga Publications anthology Dead Red Heart. I’m also part of a collaboration of a dozen or so writers that put together a piece called The Tide for the same book. Ticonderoga have just released the...
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“The chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.” ~ Harlan Ellison That is all. .
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The life of a writer can be a thankless one, with rejections peppering a career far more often than acceptances. But it’s the rejections that teach a writer their chops. With any luck you get a bit of feedback with a rejection that helps to improve a story. A writer should continually improve through...
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After a little break, my series of guest posts continues. This time it’s Karen Lee Field’s turn, owner/operator of new kid on the block, Kayelle Press. In an Instant World… Once, long ago, I stated quite loudly that traditional publishers were the only way to get published. And I meant it. I believed it...
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I think pretty much everyone has heard about the shocking floods up in Queensland, even if you’re not an Australian. It really has been terrible and the people up there need our help. FableCroft Publishing has come up with a great idea. They’ve been putting together an anthology of short stories called After The...
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I’ve just got back from a very productive few days at a writers retreat. It’s the first time I’ve done such a thing, and I like it. I was kindly invited by the existing FWOR (pronounced fwooooaaaarrrr!) group of Cat Sparks, Donna Hanson, Nicole Murphy, Russell Kirkpatrick, Matthew Farrer and Kylie Seluka. Other FWOR...
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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 and my work by clicking About Alan just below the header.
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:
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