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Richard
Dec 1, 20173 min read
Gun Machine: Book Review
From the blurb: The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. This is a collection belonging to...
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Richard
Nov 29, 20171 min read
Nearly there...
I have finished the main body of the first draft of Hadan's Reach, with only the epilogue to go. Currently on about 75,000 words, with...
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Richard
Nov 10, 20171 min read
Ravenor: Quick Book Review
A straightforward "inquisitorial procedural". Ravenor and his team investigate the mysterious drug trade in "flects", highly-addictive...
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Richard
Nov 7, 20177 min read
Hadan's Reach - Sample and Update
Approaching 60,000 words. Still looking at a release early next year. Here's an unedited sample to whet your appetite! They drove north...
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Richard
Oct 16, 20171 min read
Hadan's Reach: Progress Update and Sabbatical
The writing continues apace! I'm actually very pleased with progress. I've just tipped 45,000 words. I'd originally anticipated finishing...
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Richard
Oct 3, 20174 min read
Hadan's Reach: sample
A slice of action from the latest novel (unedited, not proofed): They plunged back into the jungle with visors dialed up to maximum night...
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Richard
Sep 28, 20171 min read
Pilot review scheme
As some of you may know, Amazon reviews are the lifeblood of self-published authors like me. Over 90% of all my sales are on the...
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Richard
Sep 22, 20172 min read
Current writing project(s)
Hadan's Reach Who remembers in the Art of War Trilogy the frequent callbacks to an event known as the Treaty of Hadan's Reach? A few...
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Richard
Aug 26, 20171 min read
Children of the Empire is now available!
I'm pleased to finally be able to share Children of the Empire with you! It's available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0753ZJSD9...
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Richard
Aug 22, 20171 min read
Update: Children of the Empire coming this week
Just a quick one: I'm on the last 20,000 words of the final review of the proofread manuscript, and I've had word back from my cover...
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Richard
Aug 12, 20177 min read
Children of the Empire: Update and Preview
The manuscript is back from the proofreader and I've just this morning got a pre-visualisation of the cover image which I'm very pleased...
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Richard
Jul 31, 20171 min read
Children of the Empire: Quick Update #3
So the great knit-together is complete! the book currently stands at a healthy 70,000 words. I've a proofreader lined up for the next...
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Richard
Jul 27, 20171 min read
Children of the Empire: Quick Update #2
I've now finished reviewing storyline 3 of 4 (Xavier Ansovald, our human janissary). This was one of the longer storylines at 20,000...
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Richard Swan
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Children of the Empire: Quick Update
I'm currently about 1/3 of the way through editing the 3rd of 4 story lines of Children of the Empire. I'm hoping to have the lion's...
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