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I have now changed the name of my booktube account....please subscribe if you're interested in my book reviews...

Here is the link to my video on time travel books - if you're interested in this particular trope, I delved into a pile of books and summarised my favourites here:

Here is a link to an article I have just written for LinkedIn - asking for advice on self-promotion...

Here is a new video I have done of 5 recommended science fiction books that I have read in the last few years. They all blew me away, and here I try and articulate how and why they knocked me for six like they did.

Here is a video I have done on my author youtube channel, recommending 10 books related to music or musicians.

Click on the link below for my review video of my Top 10 cartoonists out of the many that I collect. If you have an interest in illustration or caricature, or are curious about the art of cartooning, have a look at the link below.

Here is a link to an audiobook that been created of my story "Whatever happened to Ethel Pinchworthy", a story from the book "Ten Tales of Transformation".

It is read by the brilliant Sharon Court.

Here is me giving a few details about my stories in the collection "Ten Tales of Transformation".



Please take a look.

Thanks

So this year I started my journey as a serious author. I had dabbled with ideas a little in the past, and spent over 20 years writing songs and poems.
Short stories were a sensible way to begin.
I hadn't actually planned on writing a books worth of stories until I had my first responses from my first one, and was spurred on by the enthusiastic thumbs up I was getting.
Then, perhaps leaping off that encouragement, lots of ideas came to my mind, and I worked quite quickly on putting the time aside to get them down in story form.
That first collection has some very personal takes on the science fiction I have always read, with some standards like Death visiting an old man, and the classic carnival setting. I believe what I did with them was unique, but obviously someone may have read something that they tell me is similar. For now, as far as I know, the 10 stories stand alone as original.

So the experience of getting the stories out there, and the first responses I have got for them has been very exciting. I am absolutely loving the whole experience.

I am now most of the way through writing my first novel. I have got to the major climax of the book, so it's just ironing out the endings for the different characters. That's been a great journey too.
Like the short stories, I have learned that the book takes the story in ways you didn't plan. When you're writing, you realise that a particular character would go in "that" direction, rather than the one you originally laid out. All of that has been very rewarding.
For this novel, the speech and characterisation of the main characters has been a major element to the novel. An obvious thing to say, perhaps, but with this one there was quite a lot of contrast between the humans and the native aliens....or at least that was my goal.

Anyway....please check out my short story collection called "Ten Tales of Tranformation" Ten Tales of Transformation and look out for the novel that will be out soon.