by Kevin | Mar 27, 2024 | Fantasy and Sci-Fi, Travel
I’m between jobs at the moment, but I’m enjoying being at home catching up on things. This has included publishing the fourth Blood Girl book and starting to plan the fifth, and possibly the sixth. I’ve also published the first of what I hope will be...
by Kevin | Sep 12, 2023 | Business, Travel
Last week, I was dressed up as a policeman. I was doing some marketing for one of the sponsors of an electric vehicle summit. It was a change from sitting at home on Teams calls doing project work. But that’s not what I want to talk about today. While I was...
by Kevin | Mar 12, 2023 | Travel, Writing books
It amuses me that science fiction likes to create planets based on single geographic regions. For example from Star Wars there’s the ice planet Hoth, the jungle world of Dagobah and of course the desert world of Tatooine. Of course our planet contains all of...
by Kevin | Dec 20, 2017 | Reviews
Following Desolate Empire, I turned next to a new Young Adult book: Secondborn by Amy Bartol. It is set in a future where the privileged first born rule, the second born serve them and any third born are criminals to be hunted down. The protagonist is Roselle, the...
by Kevin | Dec 20, 2017 | Reviews
I took my Kindle to Cambodia and there I finished Book 3 of Christina Ochs’ Desolate Empire series, The Hammer of the Gods. I started reading them because I was searching for books like my Light Funnel series (which they’re not really), but kept reading them...
by Kevin | Dec 20, 2017 | Writing books
I’m taking a sabbatical from work and leaving New Zealand for the UK for a while. When moving countries, I always used to do some travelling en route. This makes good use of the air ticket and provides a pleasant limbo between lifestyles so it’s easier to settle into...
by Kevin | Dec 20, 2017 | Reviews
This reflection contains spoilers. Big ones. This probably doesn’t matter given I’m possibly the last person to have read The Hunger Games trilogy. I had heard people say the first book at least was good and I saw the first film a couple of years ago which was long...
by Kevin | Nov 11, 2016 | Writing books
People ask me where the ideas come from; why I started writing Light Funnel. Sometimes there’s a specific source for an idea, but this story was born out of nothing. I added ideas to it later, only some of which I can trace. I started writing it a few years ago....
