Tag: book

The Angel and the Swarm

Last week, while on a zoom with a few friends on mine, one asked "what are you writing?" I was a bit stunned at the question. I'm always writing, to start with, but also I didn't realise this particular friend knew that I wrote at all. "Anything sci fi?" they asked. "Yeah," I said. "A book about a kid in space." "Sounds awesome. Tell me more." I struggled to find words to sum up this 800 page behemoth I'd been writing for years, but I ploughed ahead. I've always been one to write enormous novels, and summing my work up...

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Architecture

A Plague of Dragons

Some might think that a novel should start with action, or a character. Well, what about architecture? I promise that this is relevant to the story, but at first glance the first part of my book "A Plague of Dragons" seems overly heavy on both the physical appearance of towers and the duties of a library assistant. Fun fact: I worked as a library assistant for three years during high school and nobody EVER put their books back, or if they did, it was never in the right place. Summer City was the centre of the Anidain Empire, a magical...

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