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I’ll be appearing in person at some local events such as trade shows, markets, community fairs and so on in the next few months, selling autographed copies of all the novels and promoting my various coaching and editing services for writers and my copywriting services for businesses. It’ll be good to get back out there in the world again after all the restrictions we experienced during the pandemic. I’ll have more news about each of these events as they come up over the coming months. In the coming weeks, I’m mentoring...
read moreShadowzone
“Time travel, alternate worlds, and societal sub-cultures are blended into a great plot, and a gripping and relevant read. The environmental stewardship aspect of this story echoes our current day challenges, as do the almost prescient references to a dangerous virus. Characters were well drawn and the reader is cheering for their success. The three books in the series flow smoothly together. A great read for middle school ages and up, to both engage interest and build vocabulary. Highly recommend this series!” While watching intense...
read moreLearn How to Write Great Stories for Children and Young Adults
The Writing for Children and Young Adults course focuses on writing for children aged 8 to 14 years. However some of the material also covers older and younger age groups. Learn how to write effective, authentic, and appealing fiction for children and young adults and how to turn your ideas into compelling stories. The course explores the writing process from initial concept to finished work including story structure, developing plausible characters and dialogue, the creation of outlines and the importance of research, editing and...
read moreNew Projects
I worked on the World War II fantasy series of novels, The Order of Excalibur, in the summer months, mostly completing the first two parts of the series. However, although much of the third novel is finished, I’m currently taking a break from that project as I focus on a new time travel story. I’ve also been working on scripts and screenplays for the three novels in the Shadowzone series again, which I’ll most likely continue doing in the next few months. You can subscribe to my monthly newsletter to keep up to date. The...
read moreLearn How to Write Effective and Compelling Historical Fiction
Historical fiction combines the events of the past with characters and stories from the writer’s imagination. This course examines the art of writing historical fiction and the need to fully immerse yourself in a particular time period to make your storytelling more believable. Learn how to write effective, authentic and appealing historical fiction and how to turn your ideas into compelling stories. Understand what defines historical fiction and different historical time periods, create believable settings and plausible characters and...
read moreParallel Destiny
“This is an excellent book for teenagers and will appeal to both boys and girls.” Project Mindstorm no longer exists and Kane and his associates no longer represent a danger. However, Max and Julia now have to contend with the sinister Alastair Hammond and his experiments into the existence of parallel universes and alternate realities. Marooned within a bewildering series of multiple universes, Max and Julia are forced to fight for their own survival and to save the very fabric of reality from Hammond’s deadly scheme. Parallel...
read moreMuse News
Revenge of the Witchfinder, the third book in The Stone of the Seer series, will be published as an ebook and as a paperback very soon. This exciting historical fantasy series of adventure novels for young adults is primarily set in the turbulent era of the English Civil War. You can learn more about all three books, including all about the historical background to the story, here on the website. Royal Blood, the second novel, is available as a print book on Amazon, and as an ebook on Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords and elsewhere online....
read moreTwisted Fate
“Twisted Fate kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Time-travel, secrets, visions, paranormal activity, psychics; there isn’t anything this book doesn’t explore. I would highly recommend going on this adventure. The book is not only well written, it provides many twists that you won’t see coming!” On his fifteenth birthday Max receives a box of personal items that once belonged to his mother and soon begins to have strange dreams and experience disturbing visions. In the days that follow, Max steadily learns the shocking...
read moreRoyal Blood interview at Wottaread
Check out Wottaread to read another interview about Royal Blood, the second novel in the Stone of the Seer series that’s set in the turbulent 1640s during the English Civil War. In the interview, I talk about the novel, the Stone of the Seer series, the second novel, the sources of inspiration, historical research, the upcoming third novel in the series, my other current writing projects, my work with other authors and more. Wottaread was founded by writer and book lover, I.M Redwright. He is an indie author who decided to make things...
read moreFlashback
“Right from the very first sentence I was engaged, and I could not wait to find out what happened next. The book was thrilling and it kept me on the edge of my seat.” Lots of kids have an imaginary friend. Max certainly did. Then one day, Max’s friend said something that scared him. Max never saw his friend again. Several years later, Max’s imaginary childhood friend returns – older, wiser, and disturbingly real. He tells Max of events concealed for over twenty years, events that someone will go to deadly lengths to keep that...
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