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"

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.”

Wise Words

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." - Morpheus, The Sandman - Dream Country (Neil Gaiman)

"A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensly right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt." - Mark Twain

"At the beginning there was the Word - at the end just the Cliche." - Stanislaw J Lec

Publishing Renaissance

RealmShift for $1 at Smashwords

By alan

June 18, 2009

Just a quick reminder that as part of my first post over at PubRen I made special offer on the ebook edition of RealmShift over at Smashwords. Until June 29th you can get RealmShift in a variety of ebook formats (including Kindle-friendly .mobi) for just US$1. Go to the RealmShift page at Smashwords, click...
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Free books and ebooks and promos, Oh my!

By alan

June 14, 2009

My first full post for Publishing Renaissance is up now. It’s all about the nature of ebooks, free books and giving away books for promotional purposes – all good marketing stuff like that. I’ve even cleverly shoehorned in a special two week promo in the post where you can get an ebook version of...
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Publishing Renaissance

By alan

June 12, 2009

I was recently invited to become a contributing writer over at the group blog, Publishing Renaissance. To give you an idea of what they’re all about, there’s this from the site: We are a group of indie writers putting our work out into the world and trying to navigate the web, social media, and...
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The Word

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:

alan [at]alanbaxteronline[dot]com