Signed copy winner & announcement!

Roll up, roll up. We're about to play Wheeeeeel of Fortuuuuuune. And the winner of a signed copy of Neon Sands is...

Congratulations to Isabella, you have been DM'd. There will be another winner next month!

So what's this announcement I hear you ask? Well, it's a heads up about next week's Big Fat Offer. One of the ways an Indie author can hope to gain some traction is with a BookBub advert, however, they are notoriously difficult to get. My best shot would be with the Neon Sands boxset, but it only has 1 review so far as most people by the books individually. So! For all next week (24-28 Feb), the boxset will be free, and I'd love your help to get it to the top of the #FREE charts. Even if you already have it, please add your download to the ranks - the higher it gets, the more exposure it will get! It's exponential! And any reviews too gratefully received, to give me a better chance of getting the BookBub. 

Book reviews

Now that I have finally finished four of the Song of Ice and Fire books I can begin reading more Indie books again. I began with Erin MacMichael's T'nari Blood Claim, which you can grab for free by signing up to her newsletter at Reality Raiders. It was a 5-star review! Well written and worth diving into. Fellow writers - here's a submit page. 

What else this week?

Well, I completed a poem about parenthood - I don't want these things to become the new norm - and continued with The Risen Part 2. I watched the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep and enjoyed it more than the theatrical version. The only downside? Out of an extra half hour, there wasn't much more added to the ending, which was where it was needed, after such great build up. I also watched Parasite, which Kermode called the best film he'd seen in 10 years. The details and dialogue in this film were great, though with my writer's hat on, I was hoping for a slightly cleverer ending (and that Morse Code thing was a bit of a MacGuffin). Definitely worth a watch though!

I leave you with Storm Dennis's trail of destruction near by me!

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It's her sixteenth birthday and Kiriai has a big decision to make. Will she fight for her dream to battle in the arena? Or buckle under her grandfather’s pressure to become a healer?

Her best friend Eigo is an outcast from his scrounger family. On a recent expedition into the wastelands, he found a peculiar birthday gift for Kiriai—an AI trainer from a centuries-old, martial arts game. Could it give her the advantage she needs? Will Kiriai win the fight that decides her future?

An impossible deadline, a persuasive mentor, and her own family all stand in Kiriai’s way. If she loses, she’ll be consigned to a mundane life, but more importantly, banned from the arena forever. Kiriai can't let that happen.

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But they are not alone.

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