CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

The first new cover that arrived this week was for the urban fantasy short story, Reluctant Liaison , which will be published next Friday. I woke up in a car—upside down, staring into the faces of a half dozen pixies sitting on a tree branch. To one side, was a cliff face, to the other, sky, and things were starting to shift. Apparently, I’d had an interesting night… if only I could remember what it was, and why I’d run, and why following the pixies scared me almost as much as the idea of staying in the car… In Reluctant Liaison the Paranormal Operations Squad is faced with a dilemma outside their usual remit, when Otherworld and ‘real’ world cultures clash.

No new catches, today, but I did have a new evolution after finding some aron this morning’s 4.5 km walk. This brings the Johto pokedex up to a grand total of 64, which leaves me 26 to go before I hit gold.  

Last week was fairly busy, as the school holidays entered their third-last week, and we had enough rain-free, cooler days to tidy the garden. I was still getting my head around writing full-time, but it seemed to be coming together towards the end of the week. This is what got done: Progress: January 14-20, 2018 New words produced: 14,942 Outlines and Notes: 3,501 Words compiled: 100,692 ( Story-A-Week Collection ) Works completed: 0 Works edited: 1 ( Reluctant Liaison ) Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works released: 1 ( A Planet’s Ransom ) Works submitted: 3 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 917 Goal Progress  Publish Fortnightly: Weekly pre-releases have already been uploaded to the end of January, 2018. Stories have been written to cover the release schedule to the first week of February 2018, and the second release for that month has been fully outlined. This goal is currently on track. June 2018:   ...