Continuing work on the updated first issue of my Guy N Smith zine...
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
GNS Zine Update
Monday, 3 February 2025
Familar End.
Well, I finally competed my 9th and final horror novel, Familiar yesterday. I just have some grafting to do on the typesetting, writing the book's blurb etc. to do now, but I am hoping to get the beast published before the dawning of next week.
Making the most of what spare time I have before heading home for the evening to work on the aforementioned, I manage to progress my Guy N Smith ghost story a little after I finished at the office for the day:
Thursday, 30 January 2025
A loooong January nears a close
Saturday, 25 January 2025
Starting work on GNS2
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Conjuring ghosts from the page
Sometimes all I want to do during these cold, dark and miserable winter months is to hibernate until the clocks go forward an hour and the warm of spring awakens the countryside. For now, my best escape from the harsh inconviences of earning a crust and battling the afflictions and ailments of increasing age and ill health as to sit in a quiet place, away from the bustle of every life and create places, people and circumstances of my own. Let an imagined protagonist face a happenstance far more worthy of anxiety than my own petty concerns and lose myself in his actions and thoughts for awhile. And so I take a second sojourn to a andventure I'd hope never to endure in the real world.
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Continuing my ghost story for GNS Zine 2 |
Saturday, 18 January 2025
Knock Knock
Saturday, 14 December 2024
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Friday, 1 November 2024
Thursday, 31 October 2024
The Quiet Before the Storm
Monday, 28 October 2024
Reading Again...
Friday, 25 October 2024
Sunday, 20 October 2024
Pre Halloween Reading
I've been so busy of late, with two important new jobs to learn, training courses to complete and getting my latest Explore Gower book written and published. Hopefully the next two weeks will be a little quieter so I can crack on with some much needed reading...
Sunday, 22 September 2024
Plans Update
I am not really enjoying working on my Gower Beaches. It has been a bit of a grind, to be honest. I think the reason is because I haven't needed to go out and take photographs for it as I already had the imagery needed for the book in my portfolio. I do need one trip out in Gower though as I lost a lot of my stored files in the housefire earlier in the year and havent got photograpgs of the caves down Fall Bay. We are holding out on heading down for the moment as Mrs E is hoping that there will be another northern lights display in the next couple of weeks so we might be able to put two projects to bed in one outing. Whatever happens, the Explore Gower Guide to Gower Beaches will be available from Amazon on November 1, 2024.
After that, I will be spending November working on my next horror novel, Familiar. I hope to get a full first draft of the book completed by Christmas.
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My research on familiar folklore continues... |
2025 should be a quieter year for my writing. Famiar should be out sometime in the first half of the year, and my only other blook planned for next year is Issue 2 of my Avalon guidebook series exploring the town of Glastonbury.
Other than that, the only other publication I have planned for next year is another Guy N Smith zine. This one will see me more in the role of editor, designer and publisher, however, as this issue will feature the creative work of varied creatives who fans of GNS. At the time of writing this, this new GNS zine has the promise of being something very special...
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Saturday, 7 September 2024
Stormy Reading
Whilst the South Wales thunder raged in the skies overhead and the rain belted down, I read this grim short story by Guy N Smith.
Thursday, 5 September 2024
Monday, 2 September 2024
Guy N Smith - The Knighton Vampires
I really should have read this book before this past weekend. But its fascinating to read a story set in a place you have literally just read... I've just got to persuade little fudjcake to let me get back into reading again.
Sunday, 1 September 2024
A Gathering for Guy (part 3)
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The Raffle Table |
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The Auction Table |
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Paul |
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Tara |
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Mark Morris |
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Shane Agnew with his raffle prize |
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Nick Caton with his raffle prize |
We got back home a little after six in the evening, where I found a magazine waiting for - the new edition of The Dark Side magazine, featuring 6 pages of Guy N Smith material :)