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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.”
The public demanded it, so I’ve delivered. Well, quite a few people, after attending one of my Write The Fight Right workshops, asked if there was any further resource they could get on the subject. Short of suggesting martial arts classes, I had no advice. After I did the workshop at Worldcon, several people...
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The title says it all. You just can’t. I won’t allow it. I hear it so often and I find it baffling. I know what it means to love books. I love books to a degree most would consider unhealthy. I’m a bibliophile of the highest order. The feel, the weight, the smell, the...
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I’ve got a lot of stuff going on. But I’m getting there. My primary focus for the majority of this year has been working on my latest novel, getting it up to the best polish I can. I’ve been working on it during every spare minute and I’ve just sent the manuscript somewhere, so...
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I’m a very proud member of the Australian Horror Writers Association and a big fan of the Association’s magazine, Midnight Echo. I’m really hoping that they’ll buy one of my stories one day. In the meantime, I always enjoy reading it. Issue 5, edited by AHWA President, Leigh Blackmore, is available now. Midnight Echo...
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I mentioned a little while ago that Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers (Volume 1) was available now. As part of Read An Ebook Week, the publisher has made the ebook edition free. After March 12th the price goes back up to $9.99, so this is a chance to score a great book for...
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March 6th to 12th is Read An Ebook Week. You may or may not enjoy ebooks already and I’m not here to convert you. But, in celebration of the week, my publisher is making all their books half price on Smashwords. That includes my novels, RealmShift and MageSign. To get into the spirit of...
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The web has been abuzz lately (for example) with stories of Amanda Hocking’s incredible self-publishing success (and similar success by other indies). In a nutshell, Hocking has nine self-published works available on Kindle (and other ebook stores) and is selling hundreds of thousands every month and making more money than most writers ever dream...
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The 2010 shortlists for Australia’s premier dark fiction awards, The Australian Shadows Awards, have been announced. First off, I’m incredibly proud to have the Dark Pages anthology among those finalists. While the book is really the baby of editor Brenton Tomlinson and the contributing authors, it was published by my small outfit, Blade Red...
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Everyone is blogging about the collapse of REDgroup, the company that owns the bookshop chains of Borders and Angus & Robertson (and Whitcoulls in New Zealand). I was going to write a big long ranty post all about it, but the truth is it’s all been done. A quick web search will yield more...
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So I’ve been running a series of guest posts about the new age of publishing, talking about ebooks, indie authorship, where the traditional bookshop is headed and so on. One of the guest posts was from Shane Jiraiya Cummings and he’s running a similar series of posts on his own blog right now. I’ve...
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Wow! Big response. I’ll leave the post in place, but if you’re just finding it now please don’t email asking for review copies. The response was overwhelming and quite humbling – I’m touched by the amount of people that offered reviews. So thanks to everyone, but no more free ebooks for now. Of course,...
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Recently Shane Jiraiya Cummings guest posted here talking about his experience so far with his great ebook experiment. Well, what goes around and all that – Shane asked if I’d guest post on his blog, talking about my own ebook experience, so I did. You can find the post here. Read, enjoy, comment, share....
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That is such a stupid expression. If you have a cake, of course you want to eat it. What’s the point of having a cake if you don’t intend to eat it? You going to wear it or something? It’s like saying, “Oh you don’t just want a car, you want to drive it...
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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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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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