CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Country Rush is the first book in the Bookstore Romances series which centers around the characters who work in, or pass through, Highway's Book Emporium, a bookstore in a city very much like Melbourne.   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 criminal element on their heels, the pair of them take a fast train and a slow bus out of town, before fleeing to a country property to try to work out how to escape their dilemma. Country Rush is now, or very soon will be, available from Smashwords , Amazon-Kindle, Kobo, AllRomanceEbooks and CreateSpace, as wel...

There wasn't a lot of reading in March 2013 - at least, not of the 'just-for-enjoyment' kind - but I did manage to get through the following two books. Wonderful stories from authors I enjoy. Check them out: Photograph of Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi Photograph of Ice Station by Matthew Reilly

Only one release this month: Country Rush Ebook Cover Print-on-Demand Large-Print Cover Print-on-Demand Cover CountryRush is the first book in the Bookstore Romances series which centers around the characters who work in, or pass through, Highway's Book Emporium, a bookstore in a city very much like Melbourne. 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 criminal element on their heels, the pair of them take a fast train and a slow bus out of town, before fleeing to a country property to try to work out how to escape their dilemma...

You've seen the juvenile. Now, take a look at these, and you'll understand why I had so much trouble trying to work out if it was the same bird or not. This is the adult. Apparently, it takes around two years for the juveniles to lose their greenish tinge and wear this red-and-blue coat. The ones around my house are shy and pretty uncooperative. If the tree hadn't had so much fruit on it, I doubt he would have stuck around, but he took a good look at the camera, and decided the search for food was more important. Some of those berries can be downright hard to reach, but well worth the effort.

So, no luck this quarter, but next quarter's entry is already in, and I'm looking at writing for Quarter 3. In the meantime, short stories entered in previous quarters are as follows: Q3 entry for 2013 Q4 entry for 2013 Q1 entry for 2014 Of these three, only Gulvane and the Dragon has received an award - an Honorable Mention: These stories are available as stand-alone pieces of short fiction, or all except Gulvane and the Dragon can be found in An Anthology of Blades : If you wait until June 21, this year, all three stories can be found in the upcoming collection: C.M. Simpson: Short Stories and Poems from 2013 (Volume 2: Remnants to Recent Years).