Welcome to my worlds

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one.”       George R R Martin

This quote just about sums it up.  If you're looking to find out about me, my words and my worlds, you've come to the right place.  I'm a writer, publisher and editor. This site is about my fantasy, science fiction and horror writing, or what most people in the field call speculative fiction or SF.  Hopefully you'll discover some new worlds to inhabit and some new lives to live.

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To Prologue or not to Prologue?
A Fantasy novel always has a Prologue.   Well, nearly always.  It's a genre rule which you break at your peril.  A Prologue comes straight after the Map and just before Chapter 1.  Just use the mnemonic MPC1: Map, Prologue, Chapter 1.  Simple.  You can't go wrong.
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