Chapter Five: The hall had been built inwards to his specifications. A high ceiling, invisible overhead, made the space feel claustrophobic while ...
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Chapter Four: It took Quinn two hours to get ready for the show. Stevie helped to arrange her mousy-brown hair, curling it into wide waves that ...
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Chapter Three: Tokyo was nothing if not busy. The two girls spent their first few days navigating coloured trains that ferried them about the ...
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Chapter Two: A full moon illuminated the landscape around Narita Airport as the plane came in to land, its solitary eye gazing through the ...
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Chapter One: A dull flash lit up the city streets – a strobe of light passing over every surface like the piercing illumination of a flat-bed ...
Mind Maps and Editing
So this is a slightly blurred version of the mind map I used for Book I: At some point the colours were meant to mean something, but I lost track ...
I read because…
I read because books take me places that I can’t physically go and they show me things that might never even exist. I read because I like meeting ...
Trying to Maintain Mystery
It was important to me when constructing the story of Light’s Shadow that no single character would have direct connections with every ...
First attempts
Years ago, shortly after I’d read the original Dune series and the Hyperion Cantos, I decided that I wanted to write Science Fiction. I’d ...
Creating People
Becoming attached. I don’t really know how other writers develop characters. I say this not in the sense that I have ‘no ...