Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Authorial Summary 2024

 It's been a very fruitful year this year, with 25 publications - my second highest ever total. This includes translations into twelve languages, four of them new for me: Russian, Punjabi, Sinhalese and Farsi. On top of that, I have another seven stories accepted for publication - one in English and the other six in six different languages, including another three new languages. That's beside the ten-part serialisation of my novel Galaxy's Game.

I've only written two short stories this year, but I also managed to complete my fifth novel, A Sense of Justice, writing the last 20,000 words or so. I then plunged straight into my sixth novel, with the 2500 word introduction. Hopefully I'll get a bit further with that next year.

Monday, December 30, 2024

Englebert in Farsi

The Farsi (or Persian) translation of my short story Englebert is out today at Metaphor Space - my final publication of the year. This is the eighth language for this story, following English, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Romanian, Greek, Russian and Sinhalese.

It's my first story in Farsi, making this my 35th language.



Sunday, December 22, 2024

Galaxy's Game - The Serial

In rather wildly exciting news, my novel Galaxy's Game - the first novel I completed - is due to be published as a ten-part serial at Aphelion next year, starting in the February issue. Here's the tagline:

Interplanetary businessman Brett Hawkes and his companion the flying jellyfish-like alien Nirf get involved in intergalactic intrigue, planetary chaos, invasions, crash landings, sabotage and drinking tea. 

I wrote this novel over a galaxy-spanning three decades, and I have so much background information in the form of sketches of aliens, galactic charts, glossaries and side stories that I'm planning to add a new dedicated page to this website to make it all available. 

Look out for the saga to start in February!