CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Terribleminds Flash Fiction Challenge Response: The Invisible Bookshop Very excited to be able to take part in the first terribleminds flash fiction challenge of the year. Written on January 13, 2014, for the terribleminds flash fiction challenge due midday, January 17, 2014, this piece explores more of my Otherworld setting. I’m beginning to think, this setting and the pixie-dust setting might be one and the same. I’ll write some more to work it out. We had to randomly roll two words, which made up our title, and then we had 1,000 words in which to write a story. This piece is exactly 1,000 words long. The invisible bookshop stood on the corner of Pattinson and Lane. It was not a secretive place, tucked away in an alley or down a side-street. It stood proudly where all could see—or where all would be able to see, if the shop itself was visible. Most of the time, it looked like a big, blank corner of wall, with no windows and no door. I loved the place. As if ...

   I am currently reading through the rules update that came through late last year, so that I can tweak the already released Acts into line. After that, I will write the final scene in Act II and then compile each Act into a downloadable PDF and place it in a separate post AND on the Babes in London page on this blog. You have not been forgotten. EDIT FEBRUARY 24, 2017: APPLEMANS: Apologies for replying here, but I've responded to each of your comments made last week twice. I have no idea why my responses aren't showing up for you - or for me, either, for that matter - so I'm putting it here. Because of your interest, I have recommenced writing Babes. It'll be slow, only about 1,000 words a week, but it'll be done by the end of the year. The latest updated post is at: https://cmsimpson.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/update-babes-in-london.html , and there will be weekly updates each Friday. I'll be reposting this edit on each of the posts ...

Progress Report: Week 2 January 2014 Apologies for the late post - internet outage. Week 2 was a very busy week, this week, with changes at the day job and the continued evolution of routine at home. Life is getting more balanced, and the writing continues. Overview New words produced: 2,683 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 11 (11 for longer works) Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 (1-3 variations) Works published: 0 (2-3 release platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 1 Tasks Anthology13: Added 330 words Anthology14: Added 2,353 words Publishing Tasks Reworked blog schedules for both my blog and the publishing blog. New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Chapbook1G-J: About a cat in different locations. Chapbook20B: more science fiction from a muddy world Poem267—Dragons from the Story Leap: a dragon acrostic Poem268—Purity Falls: about the loss of a knight; Poem269—The First Hit: about a ...

Every Australian summer, you hear them - singing in the trees. Sometimes, on a fine hot day, you'll walk through the shade of a gumtree grove and be showered in a spray of fine droplets. Looking up, you won't see a single cloud - you have just been peed on by the very songsters chirping all around, and above you. I am hoping to get a picture of one of the bigger ones, but this little fellow sang most enticingly in the back yard and I had to hunt him down. I finally found him on a tall branch of flotinnia. But he wasn't very cooperative and kept shifting around the branch. Every time, I moved, he moved, too. Finally flying to another branch... ... and shifting around on that, until flying from sight. Disappointed, I was about to head inside, when I heard another one, and found it sitting in a plum tree. It was much more cooperative.

Last year was a very quiet year for my romance-writing head, Madeleine Torr. With another novel almost finished, Madeleine had no releases, but will make up for that this year. In the meantime, here is the first chapter of my 2012 release: Secondhand Sweetheart. And HERE is where you can find the PDF. Enjoy.

Not only was I busy as C.M. Simpson, but my younger fiction head was also having a fun time getting out her earlier work. This year, I hope to finish writing a good portion of one of the series I started last year, AND to start on adding to a second one. In the meantime, here is a collation of the first chapters of the 14 chapter books I released in 2013: And HERE is where you can download them as a PDF.