Snippit

A little wee snippit from Field Guide to Assassins of Muromachi Street. Warning! It contains spoilers! If you read this you’ll know that Jao survives the first book and that’ll ruin everything!

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New WIP is creepin’ me out

My new WIP is creeping me out. Have a look.

In the spring of that year, a sailor died as his ship came in sight of the jagged Rotherhide skyline. He had languished three days with fever and pustules until, on the fourth day, he succumbed and his putrid body was shoved overboard. Rotherhide, a city [...]

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Gille and the Ice Woman

It’s been far too long since I posted any free fic here (you guys, feel free to call me to the carpet when I forget about this stuff). Anyway, here you go. I’m getting into a Hallowe’eny sort of mood, so this one is a charming story of a girl and the dead lodger who [...]

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Starting Up Again

It’s the weekend and for a change I get one. I have no day job scheduled and haven’t heard anything from my editor since I heard she’d lost fifteen hours of work due to an MSWord crash. This means I have had nothing pressing on my plate for the first time in almost a month.
So [...]

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Crooked Little Vein

In January or February I noticed a friend of mine had Warren Ellis’s new book Crooked little Vein on his bookshelf. I’d heard great reviews of it and loved Transmetropolitan with a passion bordering or perversion so I asked if I could borrow CLV for a few days.
“I’ll need it back,” my friend said, [...]

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‘Handbook’ snippit

For those of you interested, or for those of you who were promised a beta copy which I then failed to deliver (flailed on delivery?), here’s a snippit of Handbook for your reading pleasure.  Commentary, complaints, suggestions and snide remarks are all welcome*.
The weak sunlight is cutting through the shutters when Jao wakes the next [...]

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42 Clicks and Counting

Wow. Holy crap. So, I said I’d share something with everyone if I got ten clicks on the Fair Copyright links. I got fourty two clicks just today and more are coming all the time.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Everyone who cares, everyone who educated themselves, everyone who clicked, you’ve [...]

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First Swim of Summer

It’s been far too long since I posted a piece of free fiction, so allow me to apologize and offer up something light and summery, maybe to read at the lake…
First Swim of Summer
Even though the water swallowed up his mother, Logan dreams of the lake. He still goes there every summer, just like [...]

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Wednesday writing round up

Halfway through my week off and I’m finally starting to see real progress. I don’t feel good about it yet, but I should and I will. Soon. Right now I’m just kind of tired.
Words: 9,062 of about 51,000
Pages: 28 of about 150
Other: Not all new material. I’m finally starting to be [...]

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Round up

Words edited: 4,650 of about 51,000
Pages edited: about 16 of 150
Other: This might look like a tiny bit of progress but it’s actually considerable. It seems I spent much of yesterday unlearning how to write, so that had to be fixed today. I also discovered a random chunk of text from god [...]

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