Out Today!
Night Witch Issue #1
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Monday, 29 February 2016
Night Witch: The Covers
These are the variant covers for all five issues of Night Witch. All bar the Ben Oliver cover for Issue #1 should be available to order at your friendly neighborhood comic store. The Ben Oliver cover is available at any Forbidden Planet Store or can be ordered directly online.
Issue #1
16th March 2016
16th March 2016
Issue #2
13th April 2016
Issue #3
18th May 2016
Issue #4
15th June 2016
Issue #5
13th July 2016
Friday, 26 February 2016
Friday Comic Tease
Early Coloured Panel
Night Witch Issue #2
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| Some people like to run with the wolves.... |
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| While others prefer a nice lie in. |
Friday, 19 February 2016
Monday, 15 February 2016
Useful Sites For Writers - MAPCO
MAPCO
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| When you need to know which road your highwayman is working. |
This site has a large collection of old maps online. Unlike other map images these are scaled large enough to be useful for a jobbing author if they want to know whether their character turns left or right to get where they want to go.
It's mostly London with some British regional maps and some of Australia (lots of Sydney) and I have a horrible feeling the site might be dead or in hiatus - so use it while you can and see if you can donate something if it proves useful.
So if you're writing steampunk from your college dorm in UC Berkeley or curious about how old the street you live on might be - this site is for you.
Friday, 12 February 2016
Friday, 5 February 2016
Friday Comic Tease
Early Coloured and Lettered Panels
Night Witch Issue #1
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| Mы очень рады что вы смогли присоединится к нам |
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| Another glorious day - for SCIENCE! |
Monday, 1 February 2016
Some Useful Sites For Writers - Ngram
Google Ngram Viewer
Unbelievably useful tool for checking whether certain words are anachronistic when writing historical sequences. Seriously between this site and Wikipedia no script writer has any excuse for peppering their dialogue with words and concepts that belong to the modern age. I'm looking at you Sleepy Hollow!
Essentially it's a tool for discovering word frequency amongst a corpus of 5 million books, searches can be differentiated by language and time period. If you need to know whether your 18th Century British emigre uses the word phrase 'learning curve' in casual conversation than this is the tool for you.
Google have wasted no money on making this site user friendly but once you've mastered the joys of late 80s Boolean search commands you'll never look back.
An important caveat is that words can change their meaning over time - thus in the early 18th Century the word 'projector' referred to people that promoted financial or industrial schemes. It's technological meaning doesn't arrive until later.
Friday, 29 January 2016
Friday, 22 January 2016
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Books! Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen
By Lois McMaster Bujold
I love the books of Lois McMaster Bujold, especially Vorkosigan saga, which I usually end up buying as a hardback, an eBook and an audible.
I already have the eARC downloaded, which I paid for I might add, so I doubt this one will be any different.
This one is out officially in February 2016 - now if you don't mind I've got a bit of reading to do.
Monday, 18 January 2016
Friday, 15 January 2016
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Books! In The Cold Dark Ground
Books! Is a new posting series in which I periodically draw attention to a book that's about to be released(1) that I'm really excited about. These are books I'm planning to spend my own cash on but I haven't read so they're not reviews.
In The Cold Dark Ground
By Stuart MacBride
Stuart MacBride stands above all other tartan noir writers for me because while his thrillers are as gripping, gruesome and terrifying as his compatriots they're also laugh out loud funny. Frequently all of the above at the same time.
According to amazon it's out on January 14th - I've got my pre-order in.
(1) Or books that I missed the release of and are only just catching up on.
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