Hello all! My sincerest apologies for the absence I have had from a lot of media forms, especially the old Blog here. There are some very valid reasons of which I do not intend on boring you with all of the details but needless to say sometimes life throws a few obstacles in your way and there are, sadly, only so many hours in the day.

Rest assured however the fact I haven’t been updating here does not reflect a period of inactivity in my writing world…far from it.

Since my last entry (sometime in January (oh my life I didn’t realise how long I hadn’t blogged for) I have released BLACKOUT and am pleased to say it is doing well. Steady page reads on Kindle Unlimited and purchases through Kindle keep me going and encourage me that I am not an entirely terrible storyteller.

I have also been brewing a series of two/three books called REAPER’S JOURNEY which is a story I came up with way back in about 2003/2004 but never did anything with. When I finished INTO THE DARK, the last entry in my Magdon Series I promised that I would spread my wings into new areas of storytelling so I decided to literally resurrect the REAPER story I came up with so long ago. As a matter of fact, I’m just hovering at around 56,000 words at the moment in Book I in the series which is good considering I’ve still got a good chunk of story left to tell in that story.

Speaking of Magdon’s I have had a pique in interest recently for the original series so have decided to start toying with ideas the last few days for the next story in the series. This morning I spent the whole morning walking with my Archy (dog named after the main character from the original Origins Of The Magdon stories). We stumbled across an abandoned theme park I used to go to as a kid. With one of Hans Zimmer’s scores playing in my ears I wandered around the piles of rubble and came up with a lot of ideas.

To that end, I decided to script an entry on the blog and use my new fandangled computer program to brainstorm various aspects of the story. All I need now is a title as I like to mentally develop a cover and title early on in the creative process as it gives me something to aim for. Invariably the covers go through a lot of changes and modifications but having the idea of a cover gives me some subtle motivation.

I am off to visit Wales and, of course, Snowdon in the coming weeks so am sure my brain will quite literally explode with ideas. With work demands and other things my creativity has been somewhat single-tracked on the REAPER story but lately, I feel I am able to juggle train lines and get various ideas brewing.

Here are some pictures from my little sneaky walk and trust me INTO THE DARK 2 (it’s not going to be called that don’t worry) is set to have foundations in Nottingham as its predecessor did along with some other places around the UK and the World to keep the new adventure rolling along.

Feel free to get yourself reading either INTO THE DARK or my completely unrelated sci-fi time-travel thriller BLACKOUT which you can get on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited or if you’re old school then Paperback instead.