Works in Progress Update It’s a busy time as I try to clear my writing decks. The follow-up to The Kill Chain, a contemporary cybercrime thriller called The Kill Switch, has been completed to the stage it now requires editing. I’m hoping this will be picked up later this year, so for now it’s on … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 39
Mental Toughness I attended a cyber security conference yesterday and the keynote speech was given by Penny Mallory with the theme of Mental Toughness. It’s a welcome feature of many conferences to have an inspirational speaker, providing insight and takeaways for your own life situation, without specific reference to the cyber security industry. I can … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 38
EVA Today sees the publication of my first Novella, called EVA. Here’s the blurb: When A.I. goes bad Astronauts Karl Leven and Mark Taylor return to Earth from deep space after five years of suspended animation. While both men undergo a series of psychological debriefs, it becomes apparent their interpretation of what occurred during the … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 37
Novellas I’ve taken more of an interest in the Novella format over the last year. I’ve read a number of the more well-known ones and have written one of my own which I intend to publish. I had written it for a particular submission, but it was rejected as not what they were looking for, … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 36
The Kill Switch I have finished up draft 4 of my work in progress called The Kill Switch. Draft 5 is now being prepared. This draft is formatted, double-spacing, wide margins, header, Time Roman 12pt, and looks good. My impression of the novel changes once it appears this way and is really useful for catching … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 35
Third Draft – Completed This week I finished up draft three of the sequel to The Kill Chain. I still have the working title of The Kill Switch and I feel that is going to stick now. Looking at last weeks post, I listed a number of titles of future novels in this series. I … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 32
Covert filming The Kill Chain is the cybercrime thriller from Scotland’s newest writer, GJ Scobie, which is due to be published by Darkstroke on the 16th July 2022. This blog post is one in a series called Facts behind the Fiction, in which I take an aspect of the plot and provide factual background material, … More The Kill Chain – Facts behind the Fiction Part 9
Writer’s Block I’ve been fortunate never to have experienced this. I recognise that some writers do, but it is something I haven’t had to deal with. I have days when I can’t be bothered. I have days when I can spend a couple of hours and only manage a few sentences, but I don’t stress … More Inside the Fiction Factory – Part 4
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