Inside the Fiction Factory
NaNoWriMo Completed Having decided to do NaNoWriMo during September, I managed to finish the draft by the 27th. I’m very pleased with how it’s gone. Fatigue was setting in after three weeks, and a migraine at the weekend there put paid to my word count. However, I picked it back up the last two days, … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 18
NaNoWriMo Mid Term Report As I noted in part 16, I’m doing National Novel Writing Month in September. It’s now fifteen days in, halfway there, and 30,000 words written. It’s going well and I’m bang on target. It’s not been without its moments of drama and periods of self-doubt, but I’ve kept on top of … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 17
NaNoWriMo I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month. It stands for National Novel Writing Month and is an event run in November for those wanting to try their hand at drafting a novel in a month. It’s not for me. I find November to be a busy month and the timing is all wrong. So I’m doing … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 16
Best Seller It’s been a surreal couple of days, pushing out promotional messages, and watching the rankings fluctuate, but my book, The Kill Chain, has been updated with the Best Seller sticker. Six months after being offered a publishing deal and a month after publication, I’m now officially an Amazon Best Seller! First reviews have … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 15
Publication Day My novel The Kill Chain was published on July 16th 2022 by Darkstroke, and it effectively marked the closing of one chapter and the start of another. I’ve blogged earlier about my writing journey and the books I’ve written here and reading back, I’m astonished I have managed to write what I have, … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 14
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas I’m taking part again this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CODI) which is believed to be the oldest and most successful academic public engagement forum in the world. There is nothing else quite like it. Now in its tenth year, academics from The … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 13
Dark Venice I’m excited to announce that the short story I was working on last month has been accepted for the anthology, Dark Venice and I’ve signed another contract to that effect. It was an interesting brief and a challenge to come up with something within the timescale. I didn’t want to write a story … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 12
Works in Progress I write novels and short stories, science fiction and near future cyber thrillers for want of a genre. The Kill Chain (Due to be published by Darkstroke Publishing in summer 2022)Security expert Jacob Anderson lands his dream job with a cyber defence firm just as a government contract is signed. Then film … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 11
Short stories I’ve written a few short stories and self-published them on Amazon. I’ve many more in draft, still waiting to be finished up. My focus has been on novels and with my goal of writing at least one novel a year, the short stories tend to take a backseat. On two occasions, a short … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 10
William Gibson next to Dan Brown I’ve presented around a hundred lectures on cyber security throughout the last year, while attending a variety of security conferences, roundtables and fireside chats. I like to use my bookcases as my background when doing remote sessions and these have proved popular with delegates. I always take audience questions … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 9
The Kill Chain. A cybercrime thriller. 