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Alan is an author living on the south coast of NSW, Australia. He writes dark fantasy, sci fi and horror, rides a motorcycle and loves his dog. He also teaches Kung Fu. Read extracts from his novels, a novella and short stories at his website – www.alanbaxteronline.com – and feel free to tell him what you think. About anything.

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Blog book tour Day 4

July 22, 2009

The blog tour rumbles ever onwards and today you can find me over at Publetariat.com. Publetariat is is an online community and news hub built specifically for indie authors and small, independent imprints. I’m a regular contributor over there myself and this time around site founder April Hamilton interviews me about why I chose...
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All you need to know about writing in 1,000 words

July 22, 2009

There are a lot of things like this out there, but this is one of the best, most succinct and well-written examples I’ve ever seen. I found it via Joanna Penn (you may remember her from Day 1 of the blog book tour) who passed on the link via Twitter (you can find Jo...
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Blog book tour Day 3

July 21, 2009

Today I move on to the US and I’m kindly hosted by action adventure author (and good friend of mine) David Wood. David had me share a post with another author, Sean Ellis, and we both talk about what’s involved in writing a good fight scene. Once again, feel free to share your thoughts...
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The movie meme

July 21, 2009

Sometimes I just can’t be bothered with these things and other times they catch my interest. This one caught my eye over at BT’s Musings Of An Aussie Writer blog. I thought I might drop it in here to break up the blog book tour a bit, especially as we’re switching from Australian hosts...
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Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 Anthology now available

July 20, 2009
Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 Anthology now available

Back at the end of June I was very happy to annouce that my short story Parklife had won a place in the Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 contest. You can read that post here. All the winning entries have been bought and published in an anthology, which is free and exclusively available through...
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Blog Book Tour Day 2 – Interview at Brascoe

July 20, 2009

The blog book tour continues today with an interview at the Brascoe Publishing blog. Brascoe is an Australian indie publisher doing interesting things and they were kind enough to interview me about the process of self and indie publishing. Blog Book Tour Day Two at Brascoe Publishing – Click here. .
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So it begins – Blog book tour Day 1

July 19, 2009

So after all this planning, let’s hope this thing works out as it’s supposed to. Day One of my virtual book tour has arrived and the first stop is the blog of Joanna Penn. Joanna’s site is called The Creative Penn and is full of stuff all about writing, self-publishing, print-on-demand, internet sales and...
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My blog book tour starts early with Smashwords interview

July 18, 2009

The virtual book tour that I’ve been arranging starts on Monday. I blogged the itinerary here a couple of weeks ago. I’m very pleased to say that the whole thing has started early with an interview with Smashwords founder Mark Coker. In the interview I talk about what a blog book tour is and...
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Catholics shoehorn relevance into Gore’s plan

July 18, 2009

I read about this in the Sydney Morning Herald today and it gave me quite a chuckle over my cereal. The Catholic Church, along with pretty much every other religion, is no stranger to desperately shoehorning “facts” into things to keep their dogma relevant. Anyone that’s ever read the Bible knows that it takes...
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Away for a few days

July 11, 2009

I’m off skiing for a few days now, back next Friday, so things might be a bit quiet around here for a little while. Use the time to catch up on some reading, maybe, or crochet that hat you’ve always wanted. Feel free to stay in touch as I’ll check in now and then...
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Author of horror, dark fantasy & sci-fi. Kung Fu instructor. Motorcyclist. Dog lover. Gamer. Heavy metal fan. Britstralian. Misanthrope. Learn more about me and my work by clicking About Alan just below the header.

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