Here’s one for the Aussies near (or not so near) Sydney. Master’s Master, Robert Hood, is running a workshop on writing speculative fiction. It’ll be held at the New South Wales Writers’ Centre in Rozelle, in Sydney’s inner-west. It’ll be well worth travelling to, because I know Rob and he’s not only a fantastic...
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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"
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.”
Writing
Making the Impossible Real: Writing Speculative Fiction with Robert Hood
Damnation And Dames ToC and cover art announced
Seriously, how sexy hawt is that cover? This is the new anthology coming soon from Ticonderoga Publications, called Damnation And Dames – Sixteen Stunning Tales Of Paranormal Noir. Or, as I’ve decided to called it, paranoirmal. That’s right, suckers, I’ve just named a genre. Remember, it all started here. Well, it actually started with...
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ThrillerCast episode 36 – The Long and the Short of It with Angela Slatter
ThrillerCast is back for 2012. Fellow Gryphonwood Press author, David Wood, and myself are back crapping on again about all things reading, writing and publishing related, especially things relevant to genre fiction. Thrillers, action adventure, sci-fi and fantasy, crime – if it’s good stuff, we’ll crap on about it. And if it’s bad, we’re...
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Place As Person – my guest post at Mary Victoria’s site
You might remember a few days ago that I posted a Tuesday Toot for Mary Victoria. Mary was tooting about a new anthology she’s in called River, and part of her promotion of that book is to run a series of guest posts on her own site. Each post is by a different specfic...
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Tuesday Therapy at Lisa L Hannett’s blog
Lisa Hannett has been running a regular feature on her blog called Tuesday Therapy where she’s had a variety of writers give a little snippet of advice or experience for other writers to take solace or inspiration from. It’s a great idea and some very interesting stuff has already gone up there. She was...
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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.
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