A 1300 word seasonal story for you. It fits between books 2 and 3. ‘Big’ Pete Garcia lay on a sunbed basking in the eerie light of Viridium, the system’s sun, eyes closed, and a hat pulled over his face.
Season’s Greetings from Sunset Strip
Zanzibar’s Rings (Viridian System #3) – the Cover Reveal
A galactic crisis: the entire comms system destroyed. How will spaceships in flight get home? Dolores is stuck in warp with a very dangerous passenger, Pete gets his shuttle home on manual. How come anything in close contact with orichalcum
September 2021 update #Viridianseries #amediting
September 2021. I’ve finished Zanzibar’s Rings. Well, enough to send it off to the editor and beta readers. I’m really honoured they should give up their time for this. The rest of the plan I hope to have all the
Zanzibar’s Rings – now editing
Zanzibar’s Rings has reached the stage of editing. This process is likely to take some time… My process First I read through and made immediate changes to typos, wrong words, and marked where I felt I had a potential continuity
I’ve finished writing Zanzibar’s Rings! #viridianseries
Finishing a book is a great feeling, so why was I so sad last night? Well, I’ve written the last Viridian System book, and have to say goodbye to many people I like. I’ve been fairly useless in the real
I’ve started writing Zanzibar’s Rings! #viridianseries
Zanzibar’s Rings is the third and probably final book in the series. “Probably’ because the intention is for everything to come together and end in a final situation. But with my way of working, some other grand idea might turn
Viridian System Plans for 2021
Looking back on past posts, not only has the news been sparse, it’s been somewhat repetitive. This is little different. Don’t get your hopes up too much. Zanzibar’s Rings (VS #3) The series was always intended to be completed in
Pleasant Valley Christmas
Pleasant Valley has one main city – Walton City. It’s supposed to be a rough, tough, frontier type of town. I felt I hadn’t emphasised this enough, so when I did the second edition of the Perihelix I had Lars
First idea for Book 3’s cover
Zanzibar’s Rings is the title of Book 3 in the Viridian series, but I haven’t even written the first draft yet! Why am I thinking about its cover? I’m planning some promotional material ahead of the autumn and hopefully book
Special offer on SF&F 4-5 May 2019 – including Curved Space to Corsair!
Curved Space to Corsair, book 2 of the Viridian System series, is on sale this weekend only! It’s part of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Promotion, with many great ebooks from all aspects of science fiction and fantasy – and