CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

You can find the introduction to the Babes in London adventure sequence HERE , the background to Act One HERE , the Overview for Act One HERE ., Act One Scenes 1-2 HERE and Act One Scene 3 HERE . Act Two Preparation and Scene 1 can be found HERE . To play or run this game you will need the following: PLAYERS: Fireborn Player's Handbook ; GAME MASTERS: Fireborn Gamemaster's Handbook ; This is a piece of fan fiction. It is NOT endorsed or acknowledged by Fantasy Flight Game s; it is IN NO WAY official; it DOES NOT indicate any form of relationship between myself and Fantasy Flight Games; and I DO NOT CLAIM any of the setting specific material or setting specific concepts as my own. PLAYERS SHOULD NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT                 S CENE T WO: A T T HE P ARK If the PCs go to the park, read (or paraphrase) the following: There are already people scouring the park. From the footpath ...

This is one of the noisiest of the Australian birds - or, at least, the one most people notice. I found this one grazing on his own, completely unperturbed by the end of a nearby soccer game, but cautious of a nosy woman with a camera. Known most broadly as a galah, they are also called the rose-breasted cockatoo. Their crazy antics while flying in flocks is the reason that humans exhibiting crazy or stupid behaviours are also called 'galahs'. I got as close as I could to start with. The raised crest means he's aware I'm there and watching me. And then I got a little closer. And closer still.  I was really missing my longer lens, but it was back at the house, so the short one had to do.  The wind was blowing, which is why the feathers are so ruffled in the shot above. In the shot below, the bird is giving me another long look, before it decides the grass is a better option than flying away.

I'm excited to announce that I now have a new cover for my next book. Up until very recently, you knew it as RomanceNovel14A or Taylor's Story . It's real title will be Country Rush . Country Rush is not part of the Pictures of Romanc e series, but is the first in my Bookstore Romances series, which center around the characters who work in, or pass through, Highway's Book Emporium, in a city very much like Melbourne. Print-on-Demand Large Print Cover E-book cover Print-on-Demand Cover When Taylor helps a tall, dark stranger hide from men pursuing him, she embroils herself in the seedier side of city life. With her mother watching over her seriously injured father in hospital, Taylor has dropped out of university to help pay the bills, taking on a second job to do so. The last thing she needs is a rapid exit from the city and a quick trip to the country, but that's exactly what her tall-dark-and-handsome insists on. With a nasty crimi...

You all know it as ShortStory36 , but now it has a name: Stiletto's Luck . As I near completion, I'm very excited by the cover for this short story. It's about an assassin dealing with the consequences of having a name more associated with a girl. E-book cover Print-on-Demand Large Print Print-on-Demand They could have called him Scimitar, Blade or Dagger, but, no, his parents had to call him Stiletto. Stiletto did the only thing he could. He learned to be the best at what he did, and he learned to walk tall - without the heels. When he finds himself in the center of a plot to assassinate the most powerful men in the city, Stiletto has only one question: How on earth is he going to walk out of this one? Stiletto is scheduled for release in late August or early September 2013, and will be made available from Smashwords, Amazon-Kindle, Kobo, iTunes, OmniLit and DriveThruFiction. I'll let you know when it goes live.

Another long week, but I am starting to find my feet once more. Projects are starting to settle. Sales figures have come in, showing where the best areas are to concentrate on. The point raised about how breaking out several author names at once increases time to break out is true, as is the point about some genres selling much more strongly than others. While I am still a long way from where I need to be, sales aren’t too bad for this stage of my career, and I’m learning what I need to focus on. Let’s see where we are at Christmas. Overview New words produced: 7,232; Old words revised: 4,332; Works completed: 0; Works revised: 0 (20 poems revised, but incorporated into a larger work); Covers created: 0 (1-3 variations); Works published: 0 (2-3 release platforms); Works submitted: 1 (complete work-up of proposal from last week); Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 2 Tasks RomNov1A—Country Rush (was Taylor’s Story): Added 1,000 words Extra Tasks Annual12: ...