Following the recent release of as the second book in the Hipposync Archives series, a reader recently asked if they had to read the first book, in order to enjoy the second. The answer was an emphatic, no. A serial is a story told in many installments with a story line weaving through the books and leading to a single point of conclusion, as with The Lord of The Rings for example, and it makes sense to read them in sequence. In a series, the same charac...

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Delivering a book for publication is a lot like delivering a baby. And, as a man of a certain age, I would now all about that, right? Well, I’ll have you know, part of my medical training involved delivering 20 odd souls into the world. Okay, it was a few years ago, and, after some over enthusiastic use of the on my part, some of those poor souls did look very odd indeed. All one or two of them needed was a bell to tie to their wispy hair and they could have passed for Noddy any da...

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As an homage to Terry Pratchett and in the wake of his death, my wife’s book club decided they should read one of the great man’s books. Not their usual cup of warm brown liquid by a long chalk. Over breakfast recently, the current Mrs DCF and I discussed the pros and cons of satirical fantasy fiction from a man who, at the turn of the century, was Britain’s second most-read author after one Ms Rowling, also a fantasy author. The Colour of Magi...

In the space left by someone dying there’s usually a house full of drawers containing papers that have instantly lost their significance, shoes that no one else will ever wear, and photographs of people no one else needs to be reminded of. Not many of us get to shuffle off and glance back at that last moment (While a chap with a scythe on a big white horse waits) to see our comet tail spelling out the word ‘legacy�. You have to have made something with your life for that to happen.

Pratchet...

No, not another apocalyptic-dystopian-28-day-triffid-zombie book, but a description of my new status as a writer. So yes, my nice, but now sold, Independent Publisher and I have parted company and I am going to do it on my own.

Like any divorce, it leaves you feeling a little miserable and vulnerable, but then the second jack and coke kicks in and you begin, if you’re anything like me, to marshal the troops. My army will include:

1/ Beta reader–tick (someone who already likes my stuff)

2/ Editor...

I’m like most people in that I give in to the universal fears of pain and death and unnoticed-until-too-late-empty-toilet-roll-holders.

All perfectly understandable from a survival/cleanliness perspective. But the most interesting fears are those that are irrational, the ones that come from the sub conscious. Such as Coulrophobia the fear of clowns, or ornithophobia � birds, or Gephyrophobia, the fear of bridges.

All totally ridiculous, unless your Stephen King,

a worm,

or someone needing to c...

So tell me, DC Farmer, what would I get out of reading your book? Will I even like it?

Not many people ask that directly, but it’s the unspoken question whenever we make the decision to read anything. And if you’ve written a book, isn’t it about time you had an answer?

Now I have a very serious job. I mean the 9-5 (okay 7-6). It involves helping people, making decisions almost every minute of the day which materially affects people’s lives. It may sound a little melodramatic, but that’s the re...

I’ve written about humour in fantasy before , and how it can be a double edged sword when it comes to blurb and on Amazon. But when you write a funny anything, do you go for the laughs and tag on a genre, or do you try and treat that genre with respect, and dial in the humour?

You see, there’s funny, and then there’s taking the Michael big time. Call a film Killer Klowns from Outer Space and it better be good or it might fall flat on its face (into a cus...