1st Of October 2020

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Peter Germany Books, Health, Horror, Insperation, Life, Mental Health, Nanowrimo, Short Fiction, Writing Al Barz, Alys Daddi, Burdizzo Books, Burdizzo Family, Corona-Nation ST, Dale Parnell, Dani Brown, David Court, Horror, Horror Anthology, Horror Book, Horror Writer, Horror Writers, Ian Davies, Ian Woodhead, Indie Authors, Indie Writer, Indie Writers, Jacob Prytherch, James Jobling, Lisa Presley, M. B. Feeney, Mark Cassell, Matt Humphries, Matthew Cash, Norbert Gora, Patrick Flaherty, Patrick R. McDonagh, Paul Hiscock, Penny Jones, Peter Germany, Richard A. Clements, Richard Archer, Ryan Simons, Tom Johnstone, Writer, Writer Life, Writers, Writers Community, Writers Journal, Writers Life, Writing, Writing Community, Writing Journal, Writing Life

Good evening folks, today I’ve written 1406 words after a few days of not writing anything. I’ve been a bit down for the last week or so, and I needed a couple of days to work through it.

This year has been hard, and although I’ve got out of the hole I was in with help from a number of people and I’ve got someone who is driving me to be the best I can be.

I’m not saying any of this for sympathy. I’m saying it because it’s something that has affected writing. It knocked me off it for a few days while I was focussing on myself. Three days without writing, then today I knocked out 1406 words in about two hours. Those words weren’t easy but they did begin to flow nicely as I got into the scene I was working on.

I was easily distracted, so have lost some of the discipline that I had built up. So, over the next couple of days I’ll be working on getting that determination back.

Now, to the first image in this post. If you’ve been reading my blog over the last week you’ll have seen the announcement for the Corona-Nation St anthology, well the pre-order is now live! It is doing really well, so please hit the link and check this out. The proceeds go to charity, and there’s a hell of a good list of writers who have pieces in here. Here’s the list again:

Matthew Cash
Alys Daddi
Dani Brown
Lisa Presley
Ian Woodhead
James Jobling
Dale Parnell
Ian Davies
Norbert Gora
Penny Jones
M. B. Feeney
Matt Humphries
Richard Archer
Tom Johnstone
Paul Hiscock
Richmond A. Clements
Patrick Flaherty
Patrick R. McDonagh
Peter Germany
Ryan Simons
Al Barz
Jacob Prytherch
David Court
Mark Cassell

My story ‘The Wank Diaries” is a story that means a lot to me. I rewrote the ending after a major change in my life and it was this story that helped me get my head back into writing again. I said in my post the other day that I bled onto the page in it. I really did. I channeled a lot of what I was going through at the time into it, not literally but I used how I felt by putting that sense of despair I was feeling into the character. The entire ending was rewritten and the tone of the story changed a lot, and for the better I think.

Burdizzo Books who are putting this book out have done a lot of work on this anthology and I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.

I’m going to end this post by pointing out that NaNowriMo is a month away. A month….. Is everyone who is taking part getting exited? I know I am.

Have a good one folks.

Good Morning 22nd September 2020

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Yesterday I wrote 907 words on Penal Earth before work. When I got home I popped onto Facebook, as you do, and saw the announcement of the Corona-Nation St anthology from Burdizzo Books, which features my story, The Wank Diaries, amongst the many fine writers works included. I am super stoked for this. Much of this story was written at a time when I was going through my own personal hell and I think some of that gets reflected in the story. Brian Keene refers to it as Bleeding onto the page. That is something I’ve done in the past and something I think will happen more, simply because that’s what we do. When we create we tap into what we’ve experienced in life. Whether it’s light and fluffy or dark and hard. We put it on the page.

Image may contain: one or more people — I absolutely love this cover!

Back to Corona-Nation St though, its a charity anthology that’ll be tasing funds for a NHS related charity. It has a hell of a table of contents as well: Matthew Cash
Alys Daddi
Dani Brown
Lisa Presley
Ian Woodhead
James Jobling
Dale Parnell
Ian Davies
Norbert Gora
Penny Jones
M. B. Feeney
Matt Humphries
Richard Archer
Tom Johnstone
Paul Hiscock
Richmond A. Clements
Patrick Flaherty
Patrick R. McDonagh
Peter Germany
Ryan Simons
Al Barz
Jacob Prytherch
David Court
Mark Cassell

Like seriously, there is a hell of a lot of talent here. I really cannot wait to get my hand on a copy of it 🙂

Back to writing though, I’ve got a fair amount of time today that I’m going to aim for about a thousand words and then I’ve got a few bits and pieces to do around the house and then I’m going to crack on with some more of this filing.

Have a good day, folks!

Good Morning, Sunday 6th of October 2019

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 Peter Germany Audiobooks, Books, Horror, Short Fiction, Writing Ann Fox, Armand Rosamilia, Audiobook, Dale Parnell, Daren Callow, Highway To Hell (Dying Days Book 1), Highway To Hell: A Dying Days Story, Horror, Horror Anthology, Horror Book, Jaq D. Hawkins, Nils Visser & Jovannah Bär, P.J. Blakey-Novis, Peter Germany, R.C. Rumple, Red Cape Publishing, Theresa Jacobs, Writer, Writers Community, Writers Life, Writing, Writing Community, Writing Journal, Writing Life

Good morning folks. A later start to the writing day for me this week. I’m going to be interspersing writing with general tidying up. I’ve got a lot going on in the next few weeks and squeezing writing into that is going to be a fun challenge, especially seeing as NaNoWriMo is right around the corner.

I did get my contributor copy of Elements Of Horror:Air this week. It came out on Tuesday and I loved writing this story. It was one of those stories that kind of wrote itself when I knew how the story was going to end. This is book two of four, each one focused on an element. The book is from Red Cape Publishing and the contributors are: Jaq D. Hawkins, Daren Callow, Dale Parnell, Theresa Jacobs, Peter Germany, P.J. Blakey-Novis, Nils Visser & Jovannah Bär, Ann Fox, R.C. Rumple.

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I did listen to Highway To Hell by Armand Rosamilia, which is the first book in his Dying Days series. I loved this book. I felt for the protagonist, he spoke to me a lot. I saw myself in him a lot. There’s some damn good gore in it, the characters are fantastic (I was particularly fond of a character who owned a car sales). Highway to Hell is a damn fun zombie story with depth along with the vile zombies and the humans who deserve to be zombies.

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That’s it for now. I’m going to get some writing down, and some tidying around it.

Good Morning, Sunday 4th of August 2019

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Good morning, folks! I hope you’re all doing well? I am a little tired. It’s been a busy weekend so far. Out with my girlfriend on friday night for a meal and a little shopping and then yesterday afternoon and evening I was in Whitstable with my Burdizzo Books family. We took over the beer garden of The Prince Albert pub (very nice pub by the way), and sat and drank (I was on the soft drinks as I’m not much of a drinker, and was driving back), and talked. I’m a big advocate of writers getting out and talking to other writers. Being a little socially awkward and nervous I can find this hard at times, but aside from Christopher Law and Jonathan Butcher I’d met everyone who was there and have had conversations with both Jonathan and Christopher via social media.

It was a good few hours of laughing and talking about everything and anything. There was no attitudes or egos. No dramas or general idiotness. It was just a group of friends who hadn’t seen each other in too long and was a super good time. These people are my tribe. I rarely feel more comfortable in a group of people than when I’m with my horror community, and when I’m with people from this group in particular, I feel like I belong. Now for me that’s a big thing. I do have a few social anxieties. I rarely feel as comfortable as I am with these folks. Not once last night did I feel out of place or that I didn’t belong. It was great. It does make me sad that we can’t do this more often, but I think we’ll be making it an annual thing.

In an hour or so I’m off to a Write-In for my local NaNoWriMo group. Although I’m a touch tired, I’m looking forward to that.

I’ll pop up word counts later on this afternoon as I don’t have them to hand at the moment.

Have a great day, folks!

7mZLM+xqSIaGAHm4NtoC7w — Em Dehaney, Matthew Cash, Me!, Sam Jewiss, Linda, Jonathan Butcher, and Christopher Law.

New Release: Under The Weather

August 26, 2018August 26, 2018 Peter Germany Books, Horror, Short Fiction Adam Millard, anthology, Back Road Books, Book, Burdizzo Books, C.H. Baum, Charity Anthology, Christopher Law, Dale Robertson, Dave Jeffery, David Court, Em Dehaney, Horror Anthology, Horror Book, James Jobling, Jeremy Peterson, Kitty Kane, Lex H.Jones, Mark Woods, Matthew Cash, Nathan Robinson, Paul Hiscock, Paul M. Feeney, Peter Germany, Phil Sloman, Resources For Autism, Short Stories, Under The Weather

Under the Weather from Burdizzo Books and Back Road Books is now out in ebook and paperback.

In this weather-themed anthology we have stories from C.H. Baum, David Court, Paul M. Feeney, Paul Hiscock, Kitty Kane, Dave Jeffery, James Jobling, Lex H. Jones, Christoper Law, Adam Millard, Dale Robertson, Nathan Robinson, Phil Sloman, Mark Woods, and myself.

It’s compiled and edited by Matthew Cash, Em Dehaney, James Jobling, and Jeremy Peterson.

When I saw the call for this anthology it really ignited my imagination. I think I had a good half a dozen decent story ideas which after brainstorming I got it down to one that really hooked me and I had a lot of fun with. (I’ve since written another short story from elements of one of those ideas).

This is a charity anthology, so all the proceeds go to Resources For Autism.

So, Please check this anthology out. I’ve put UK and USA Amazon Links at the bottom of this post so please check this one out.

Under The Weather UK

Under The Weather USA

New Release Coming: Under The Weather

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018 Peter Germany Books, Horror, Reading Adam Millard, Back Road Books, Burdizzo Books, C.H. Baum, Charity Anthology, Christopher Law, Dale Robertson, Dave Jeffery, David Court, Em Dehaney, Horror, Horror Anthology, James Jobling, Jeremy Peterson, Kitty Kane, Lex H.Jones, Mark Woods, Matthew Cash, Nathan Robinson, Paul Hiscock, Paul M. Feeney, Peter Germany, Phil Sloman, Resources For Autism, Under The Weather

Under the Weather from Burdizzo Books and Back Road Books will be released on the 26th of August 2018.

Featured in this anthology are: C.H. Baum, David Court, Paul M. Feeney, Peter Germany, Paul Hiscock, Kitty Kane, Dave Jeffery, James Jobling, Lex H. Jones, Christopher Law, Adam Millard, Dale Robertson, Nathan Robinson, Phil Sloman, and Mark Woods.

It is compiled and edited by Matthew Cash, Em Dehaney, James Jobling, and Jeremy Peterson.

All the proceeds go to Resources for Autism.

Please look out for my story ‘The Snow’ in this anthology. I’m really excited about this anthology, it has such an amazing line-up and I can’t wait to see what stories they’ve crafted for this weather-themed anthology.

Under The Weather is available for Pre-Order so please pop over to Amazon and check it out.

Good Morning, Sunday 8th October 2017

October 8, 2017October 8, 2017 Peter Germany Uncategorized Ash Hartwell, Betty Breen, Burdizzo Books, Burdizzo Family, Calum Chalmers, CH Baum, Christopher Law, Dani Brown, David Court, Em Dehaney, GH Finn, Horror, Horror Anthology, Horror Book, Lex Jones, Mark Cassell, Matthew Cash, No.84 Teamroom and Eatery, Peter Germany, Pippa Bailey, Resources For Autism, Samantha Hill, Southcart Books & Comics, Sparks, Writers Community, Writers Life, Writing, Writing Community, Writing Life

This last week has not been that productive. I think I hit a bit of burn out earlier in the week, and then I had a couple of nights where I was catching up with friends, but come Friday I was back on it. I had three different stories fighting it out in my head for attention.

The Sparks ebook went up for pre-order over at Amazon, here’s the link.

Sparks is released on the 17th of this month.

I’m really excited about this anthology. There’s some great people involved and all the proceeds go to Resources for Autism. We are having two launch parties for Sparks, one will be in Walsall on the 21st of this month at Southcart Books & Comics at 11am. I will be there. The second is on the 3rd of November at No.84 Tearoom and Eatery at Echo Square, Gravesend. I will definitely be at this one as well, seeing as it’s my hometown.

Sparks Cover

Sparks includes stories by; Ash Hartwell, Calum Chalmers, Em Dehaney, Betty Breen, Peter Germany, Lex Jones, Christopher Law, Dani Brown, Matthew Cash, Mark Cassell, Samantha Hill, CH Baum, Pippa Bailey, GH Finn, and David Court. Sparks is edited by Matthew Cash and Em Dehaney. With the cover by Matt Hill.

Sparks Anthology

September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 Peter Germany Books, Short Fiction, Writing Ash Hartwell, Betty Breen, Book, Burdizzo Books, Calum Chalmers, CH Baum, Christopher Law, Dani Brown, David Court, Em Dehaney, GH Finn, Horror, Horror Anthology, Lex Jones, Mark Cassell, Matthew Cash, Peter Germany, Pippa Bailey, Samantha Hill, Sparks Anthology, Writers, Writing

On Monday Burdizzo Books announced their next charity Anthology ‘Sparks’. Which includes my story ‘The Last Charge’, my first published story. This anthology focuses on stories of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and bizarro with the theme of electricity.

Obviously I am over the moon at finally being published, but even more so that it’s in an anthology that is raising money for a good cause, in this case Resources for Autism, and the awesome people involved in the anthology. From Editors Matthew Cash and Em Dehaney through to the other writers in the collection. There are some really cool people involved and I can’t wait to see what they’ve all written.

Sparks is coming soon, please like their Facebook page and Instagram for updates, I will obviously be posting here when the book is out, but please feel free to follow me on social media, the links are on the right hand side of the screen.

The authors in the collection are: Ash Hartwell, Calum Chalmers, Em Dehaney, Betty Breen, Peter Germany, Lex Jones, Christopher Law, Dani Brown, Matthew Cash, Mark Cassell, Samantha Hill, CH Baum, Pippa Bailey, GH Finn and David Court.

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