CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This quarter I did not place, so we'll just have to wait and see how we go in Quarter 1 next year. You can check out the Writers of the Future Contest website HERE .

This week's flash fiction challenge over at Chuck Wendig's Terribleminds Blog is to show the first day's writing for NaNoWriMo. I can't join in because I'm not NaNoing this year, due to a bunch of other commitments, but there are a bunch of folk who are. If you'd like to check them out, head on over to Flash Fiction Challenge 1,667 . You might also like to check out the finalists and winners of the Horror in Three Sentences challenge from a few weeks' back. You can find that at Horror in Three Sentences: My Faves and the Winners. Enjoy!

You can find the links to each of the preceding episodes of the Babes in London adventure sequence 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. Warning: Due to a lack of playtesters, this section has yet to be tested. GMs may need to adjust opponents to suit the level of your PCs. PLAYERS SHOULD NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT                 Preparations Scene 1: 1A – Meeting the Artist: Nil 1B – Attack on the Artist: Familiarize with NPC abilities and the effects of the tranquilizer carried by the Setites. Scene 2 – Follow

Here is the cover created this month: To Be Released: 23 November 2013

This month, took a science fiction twist and, with a couple of weeks of flu and back trouble keeping me in bed, quite a lot got read. Here are two of my favourite authors: Ann Aguirre and Mike Shepherd, whose work I have read, and will gladly read, more than once.

Here are the blogs that made me stop and read all the way through to the end, this month (and in the last three days of September): Artwork http://taziobettin.deviantart.com/art/Artwork-Pack-1-403141207?ga_submit_new=10%253A1380232822&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1 : Artwork by Tazio Bettin - go check it out Stories http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/25/flash-fiction-challenge-the-subgenre-smash-and-grab/ : responses should lead to stories you can read http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/18/flash-fiction-challenge-random-song-title/ : and this one http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/11/flash-fiction-challenge-horror-in-three-sentences/ : this one, too. For Writers http://kriswrites.com/2013/09/25/the-business-rusch-addendums-rights-grabs-agents-yet-again/ : More business sense from Kristine Kathryn Rusch http://www.brokenfrontier.com/so-you-want-to-publish-a-graphic-novel/ : Yes, I know it's about the comic market and the challenges of

Here is a visitor of the non-eight-legged variety. This little butterfly stayed just long enough for me to get a couple of shots. Enjoy :-)

Due to a technical glitch The Reptiles' Blade has been RELASED EARLY! The Reptiles’ Blade is a science fiction novella about a retired military member, a lizardine warrior-come-“diplomat” and some high-level negotiation that very nearly goes astray before it even gets started. When Felicity Shannara Jones is ordered by her command to infiltrate a criminal organization using humanitarian aid as a front, she isn’t sure she’s the right girl for the job, but then she finds Mika, second planetary adviser to humanity’s current foe, and she knows things just got serious. When Mika escapes custody, things go from serious to dire in one jet-propelled moment and Felicity, with her history in the lizardine war, finds herself in the firing line once more. The Reptiles’ Blade will be available from Smashwords, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Omnilit, DriveThruFiction and iTunes.

I’m still having trouble balancing coursework, classes and homework with my writing, but I’m enjoying the load— and I haven’t been sick, which is a nice change. I did much better this week than last week, so hopefully, I’ll get my head around how to manage the time factors shortly. In the meantime, this is what was achieved this week. Overview New words produced: 1,062 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 1 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 1 (3 variations, 5 sizes) Works published: 2 (1 to blog , 1 uploaded and/or scheduled for pre-order on 6 platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 1 Extra Tasks ShortStory99— The Possibility of Peace : started and completed at 1,062 words. Publishing Tasks Created 10 blog posts for this blog; Created 4 blog posts for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog; Created the print-on-demand and ebook covers for C.M. Simpson’s The Reptiles’ Blade ; Edited formatted and uploaded for pre-order, ShortStory40—