Monthly Archives: February 2012

Knights Highlights – February 2012

Capital Hypocrisy

My second article for the writing blog Fresh Ink. Including the original story DEATH! By popular opinion.

Cell Phone Symbiosis

The decline of networks and the effect on the wider ecosystem.

Europe Endless

Sadly not Kraftwerk related.

How are the VITAl signs?

PS Vita related article. See what I did there?

Invasion by the BOTS

iTunes app store’s ‘most popular’ lists may not be what they seem…

Loops of Life

My first guest article for the writing blog Fresh Ink. Including the second half of the first chapter of The River.

Misdirection Mayhem

A little story of something I tried to do with The River.

Patent Wars

Not so long ago, in several boardrooms quite far, far away…

The Internet is Dead

V for Very Naughty

That mask and a scary neo-terrorist group.

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THE RIVER RELEASED PART II

The River is now available in pdf format for 95p. Again following my mantra of it’s not about the money I’d get very little revenue from this. I’m only interested in making The River as accessible to all – and the best thing about this release is you can get it without postage and packaging.

So, a great story at an even greater price. Download it now, here.

This is my first baby step into e-publishing. I’ll be aiming for kindle next, but if you’ve nothing to do at work discreetly reading this will be a great way to pass the time!

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The Telegraph Short Story Competition February 2012

Early response to The River has been very positive. Roughly two out of three people who’ve read it have cried and the other hard-hearted souls have loved the high-scifi and concepts. But as written in my article what writing a book looks like the promotion aspect is a hard, long road filled with pitfalls and traps.

However, in an attempt to move down that road and for the purposes of The Telegraph short story competition February 2012 below is Chapter 7 of The River. What’s shown below is also the preview available on Lulu (although the format’s a bit screwed on this blog) so there’s no new spoilers. It’s easy to extract due to an approach to story writing I take shown on the Fresh Ink article Loops of Life. I hope you enjoy!



Chapter 7 – Two Years Later Continue reading

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Capital Hypocrisy

Although it’ll be part of my arrogantly titled ‘The Rest of Me – Feb-11′ I thought, as my first article since the roaring release of The River, that I’d highlight to you another blog I’ve started to guest write on.

Fresh Ink is open to new writers allowing them to pretty much write whatever they want. Although it’s recently been overtaken by disagreeable movie reviews (No Country For Old Men is disappointing media-luvvie fodder!) and random spurts of sudden sadness over the death of a diva whose best years were so long ago that most of the blogs authors are too young to remember her, it’s essentially a good place I’m happy to be involved with. And, more importantly, it has my first non-The River story. If you want to read the original article and any comments you can find it here.

Alternatively, below is a story written to articulate a question I have. Following it is a brief summary should the obvious-as-a-baseball-bat-to-the-face moral of the story be lost on you.

So, here goes… Continue reading

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