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Finnish summer news

Posted on June 22, 2021 by Hatboy

I’m taking my first summer holiday in two years (since you don’t get paid vacations for your first year at a new job), so I’ll probably be about as lazy and uncommunicative as I have been for the past few … Continue reading →

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Oræl Rides to War: My Phase Two Series

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Hatboy

Right. So. The Last Days of Earth is complete, which means with Bad Cow and Greyblade we have a complete trilogy! I haven’t got very good metrics on these books, certainly not compared to The Final Fall of Man which … Continue reading →

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Where to next?

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Hatboy

Yesterday I wrote the final words of my first draft of The Last Days of Earth, and got the editors’ proof paperbacks into production from Amazon Spain. All that remains is to edit, get my cover (the drafts I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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The Last Alicorn: Live!

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Hatboy

It’s here! And in e-book format, here! That is all. It’s been a long night and a long year. And I still have a Christmas Special to write, and apparently a film critique connecting Zardoz and Jingle All The Way into the … Continue reading →

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Did an interview the other day

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Hatboy

By a random series of coincidences, my man Jonathan Itkobloom brought this Twitter thread to my attention a while ago. I signed up to do an interview and get word of my books to a new corner of the Internet, … Continue reading →

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Tales of the Always Night: Chapter 4

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Hatboy

Like I said, taking a bit of a break and trying to get more of this written. I won’t post two chapters this weekend, just the one. There’s a couple of mini-references here, and I haven’t gone through and edited … Continue reading →

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Some happy news

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Hatboy

Tonight I had a little of my faith in humanity restored when I found out about #TargetTori. Go ahead and google that, but the long story short version is a poor long-suffering retail manager was given a hard time by … Continue reading →

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Tales of the Always Night: Teaser Trailer

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Hatboy

Trying out Young Adult reading level and tone. This is just a prologue and first chapter, the connection between them won’t be immediately clear. But if anyone is reading, let me know what you think. I’m trying to make it … Continue reading →

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What’s New, November 27th, 2019

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Hatboy

Hi y’all. Not a lot going on, busy at work and only able to post up some remastered oldies and the occasional copy-pasted rant. Work’s going well – lots to do, but chipping away at it. Still uncertain what the … Continue reading →

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Bookmerc

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Hatboy

Today I saw an interesting post from a buddy of mine (the inestimable KMA, and as soon as his revolutionary website ideas and hilarious fiction are available to the public I can’t wait to share them here), regarding this question … Continue reading →

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