2017-10-16 19:56
The giveaway is going really well! TPOS is up to no. 3 in its category on Amazon.
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My journey as a writer plus an eclectic mix of book reviews, art, and a little psychology.
2017-10-15 07:17
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Fancy starting a new fantasy series? Are you a fan of the classic quest stories of traditional heroic fantasy? Do you lik… Read More
2017-08-26 06:39
As you may have gathered, I love Fantasy and Sci Fi, particularly the classics, so when I was browsing in my local bookshop and saw a copy of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Cast… Read More
2017-07-30 07:25
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Today is the last day of promotion. It’s been a pretty good run with The Path of Swords charting in and around the… Read More
2017-07-28 07:24
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It was a great first day of promotion with The Path of Swords reaching no. 13 in the top 100 free Epic Fantasy books. Tha… Read More
2017-07-27 06:26
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From today you can download The Path Of Swords for free from Amazon. Plus I’m doing a special offer so if you… Read More
2017-07-22 07:29
I first read Legend in my teens and loved it. Recently I was prompted to read it again and I’m delighted to say it has stood the test of time.
There are lots of reasons to like this b… Read More
2017-06-30 17:05
In some of the first experiments on addiction, łab rats in cages were given the choice of two bottles to drink from, one containing heroine and one containing water. The rats chose the… Read More
2017-06-23 06:49
I recently embarked on one of those strange internet adventures you can never recreate but ended up in me landing on a site called Fantasy Faction. It had a place where authors can post abo… Read More
2017-06-09 06:23
Cards on the table, I only got this book for two reasons: it was offered free with my Amazon Prime membership, and it is set on Lindisfarne which I have visited recently and absolutely love… Read More
2017-06-03 09:46
Well, it’s been a week since the giveaway and three weeks since The Path Of Swords was released and I just want to say thanks to anyone and everyone who has supported, helped, bought… Read More
2017-05-27 10:00
…are you ready for a brand new book?
Summer’s here and the time is right to go and take a look!
(Apologies right now to Martha and the Vandellas)
Today you can download The Pat… Read More
2017-05-26 10:00
“Luan ap Garioch, second son of the house of Artran, this is the day of choosing. How do you choose?”
On the last day of the summer of his fourteenth year, Luan takes the first… Read More
2017-05-19 16:23
Gardening is an act of faith. I remember a friend of mine saying “I knew my Dad was going to get better when he went out and started planting up his vegetable garden”. His fathe… Read More
2017-05-13 17:08
And there it is. If you want to go and have a look you can click:
Here
There were a few sticky moments and I had to do a bit of tweaking, and for some reason the price on Amazon.com is $1.3… Read More
2017-05-12 08:28
Tomorrow my story The Path Of Swords will be for sale on Amazon and I’m a little nervous. There are all kinds of thoughts that occur at a time like this. Will it look ok on the p… Read More
2017-05-11 08:32
I love books with maps so I was very happy to sit down and start mapping out the world of the Second Son series which I did fairly soon after I started writing. At first I had it all straig… Read More
2017-05-10 08:03
The Song of Amhar
Five great ships from out of the night
Riding the waves to the land of light
Amhar the strong, with foresight blessed
Follows his destiny into the west
Considering I&rsqu&helli…Read More
2017-05-09 08:00
There is a certain amount of world building required every time you start a story, but in a fantasy book it’s a fundamental part of the process. In my case the process was based on a… Read More
2017-05-08 08:00
The Path of Swords will be appearing on a famous book selling website near you this Saturday! That’s right, after a feverish week or so going through the mechanics of getting the book… Read More
2017-04-28 08:00
So here we are, a new look and a slightly new title as well.
This isn’t necessarily the finished cover. It’s more in the way of a sketch. I was never completely happy with the p… Read More
2017-04-18 19:32
Loved these so much I had to reblog them
Occasional Art
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2017-04-17 11:54
I recently read this book and it was really good. Rather than write a review I thought I would reblog the excellent review which led my to the book in the first place. Thanks to jml297 and I… Read More
2017-04-15 11:38
I’ve discovered a way of becoming a successful author, and that is simply to give your book a title that is very similar to another very successful book. You see I thought I had bought… Read More
2017-04-13 12:12
To all you marvellous people in blogosphere, I’m asking for a little help.
It’s just over 4 weeks until The Path Of The Sword is released on Amazon (looking at 15th May) and it… Read More
2017-04-08 14:24
I’m coming to the conclusion that whatever it is you’re trying to do, the way to be successful can usually be reduced to a set of simple steps.
This should come as no surprise… Read More
2017-03-31 08:31
For a limited time only you can get a free review copy of The Path Of The Sword by clicking:
Free Review Copy
The book is a fantasy novella set in alternative Dark Age where boys train as w… Read More
2017-03-30 06:29
Some time ago I asked Martin to write a few words I could use for an Author Bio, but he’s been very elusive on the subject. “Sorry old stick, I just haven’t got around it… Read More
2017-03-24 07:31
“This is the way it will be.”
So here it is, a sneak preview of The Path Of The Sword cover. We’re looking at a possible release day of May 15th so feel free to start sp… Read More
2017-03-18 14:46
As I’m about to launch my independent publishing career, I thought it made sense to have a name for the business. I wanted something that wasn’t genre specific and also had some… Read More
2017-03-10 07:18
2017-03-04 08:29
I’m moving towards Indie publishing, in fact I’m aiming to release the first episode of my fantasy series, The Path of the Sword, in May. As part of this I’ve set up an ac… Read More
2017-03-02 09:00
It felt like the right time to do something about why I write. I’ve actually put all this on a new page, but it felt like a post as well so here it is.
When I started my very first sc… Read More
2017-02-24 07:22
This reminded my so much if my own daft dog that I had to post it. I reckon I do about ten of these, at least sometimes. How many do you do?
mypersonalstory
These are some of the lessons y… Read More
2017-02-23 09:00
Once upon a time I was unemployed in Bradford. This was in 1991 when unemployment was a fairly normal state of affairs for young people living in the Grim North. Jobs were hard to come by a… Read More
2017-02-18 08:33
If you are a writer, a poet, a painter, a musician, or any other creative person, then this is for you.
The Smarter Artist Manifesto is courtesy of Sterling and Stone
You should check… Read More
2017-02-16 09:00
…the tough go shopping, according to my sister at least. According to Billy Ocean the tough get going, which sounds very macho but doesn’t really make a lot of sense. In fact t… Read More
2017-02-09 08:56
Last summer I visited Howarth, a beautiful old town in West Yorkshire, famous for being the home of the Bronte sisters. If you are a writer, or even an aspiring one like me, there is someth… Read More
2017-02-02 09:00
2017-01-17 09:00
Recently I was delighted and very surprised to be nominated for The Mystery Blogger Award by the very lovely jrose88 of the at Milliways with a pen blog.
The Mystery Blogger Award…
i… Read More
2017-01-15 08:40
One Hundred Voices Volume Two is published today including my story: Cast Into Darkness.
Which makes me a very happy bunny.
Like the first volume it contains 100 pieces of short fiction, eac… Read More
2017-01-12 09:00
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2017-01-05 09:00
Words and picture by Martin Snee 2017 Read More
2016-12-27 09:00
This was the right book at the right time for me. As someone who is about to embark down the self publishing road I was looking for something to help me plan my route through the complexiti… Read More
2016-12-21 12:38
December rolls round again and I’m still writing. The big change in progress is that the story fragments that were simply called Dust have coalesced and extended to the point that I h… Read More
2016-12-13 09:00
I’ve been a Harry Potter fan since I read the first book, long before they started talking about making films. After all, I love Fantasy, and Harry Potter is one of the greats. The fu… Read More
2016-12-08 18:55
2016-12-06 07:32
Ok so this is not a review in the usual sense of the word, mainly because I haven’t read the whole of this book. In fact I have read only one of the 100 stories and that’s the o… Read More
2016-12-01 09:00
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2016-11-28 07:27
The Commitments at the Sheffield Lyceum on Saturday was, as I said in the title, Feckin’ Brilliant!
It’s a great show: funny and fast moving, full of eccentric characters and fa… Read More
2016-11-24 09:00
Quote – Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
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2016-11-22 09:00
Dale Gilooly has a problem. Well, Dale has a lot of problems. Addiction. Rent. A girlfriend he let slip away.But Dale has a solution. It’s a Box. And it will let him go back 10 minute… Read More
2016-11-19 13:37
So my blog is one year old today! I just want to say a big thankyou to everyone that has read, liked, commented on, or shared my posts. In the last year I have found the blogging community… Read More
2016-11-17 09:00
2016-11-15 09:00
The Naked Sun was one of my opportunistic purchases, 50p from a second hand bookstall on the way out of a shop. In fact it was another Asimov that caught my eye, the classic ‘Foundati… Read More
2016-11-12 09:00
As I edge ever closer to self publishing, I thought it was worth trying out some book covers using the picture I painted recently. I tried lots of different designs but in the end there wer… Read More
2016-11-10 09:00
On visiting the church of St. Martin in the Fields in Trafalgar Square, I was struck how the only place where there was no talking whatsoever was the gents toilet.
I realise that a Haiku is… Read More
2016-11-03 19:10
I just love this site and this story. Well worth checking out the site.
Dutch Rogue Cove
24″x 36″ Acrylic on Lexan
Sold…Down the River
This day was the first opportunit… Read More
2016-11-01 07:23
“I think you should kill him and eat his brain,” Mr. Frostee said quickly.
That’s not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations,” Cobb said, hopping out… Read More
2016-10-25 22:33
The Road to Cy Malg (Martin Snee 2016)
So today I finally did something I’ve been threatening to do for a while and that is paint one of the settings from my book, The Aren… Read More
2016-10-19 06:54
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury is one of the most enjoyable call-to-action type books I’ve flipped through. I know, I say that a lot. But heck, it fee… Read More
2016-10-18 09:39
I’m loving the new version of Werdsmith. It’s strange how an App rearranging it’s homepage can have an effect on my writing but I actually feel it helps me to write… Read More
2016-10-13 21:40
I married Isis on the fifth day of May
But I could not hold on to her very long
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country whe… Read More
2016-10-07 06:31
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.” ― Pierce Brown, Red Rising
my thanks go to the Orang-Utan Librarian (go here to visit this excellent blog) fo… Read More
2016-09-27 06:33
at the beginning of August I looked again at a piece I had started about a year before. It was a description of fishing on the Humber estuary, based an a strange experience I had when… Read More
2016-09-24 07:46
yesterday the anthology One Hundred Voices was released by Centum Press which contains my short story “The Third Thing That Made Me Kill Myself”, which I suppose technically mak… Read More
2016-09-23 18:17
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” –Sir Ken Robinson
I’ve just started using Canva for designing book covers and… Read More
2016-09-17 11:33
Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication Leonardo Da Vinci
the comment by Davy D on my previous post struck a chord and started me thinking about my favourite book covers. Mos… Read More
2016-09-11 17:03
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts” Charles Dickens
on one level it feels like starting to design the cover for my book is an a… Read More
2016-09-04 13:59
There seems to be something in human nature that generates conspiracy theories. We seem to be very uncomfortable with the randomness of life, always looking for ways to impose order and to t… Read More
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