CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s verse moves from  a verse about set texts to a series of haiku about ships leaving it a planet. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Silver to the Sky silver shines the tang of metal bleeds across the tongue ozone burns singeing our nostrils bitter air red flame burns bright cylinders climb silver tears moisture shines gleaming rivers flow cheeks glisten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the first two poetry collections at the links below - although there are plans to reissue them with more genre-appropriate covers in the future. The third collection will be released later in the year. books2read.com/u/mVLQZb books2read.com/u/bxgyLd ...

So, it’s been another really quiet week, but I think I managed to crack the first of the challenges in rewriting DarkFantasyNovel1A . Current Projects This week I made the following progress on my current projects: DarkFantasyNovel1A: + 5,000 words; first four chapters revised; Publishing Tasks DarkFantasyNovel2A: commissioned cover artist; RomanceNovel1A: progressed cover art with artist; Updated blog 3 times; Added links to The Simpson Anthologies page.   New Arrivals  Only one new arrival this week: ·          Poem31: Another series of haiku to form a poem, this one about hitmen.

‘Duelling with the Dragon’ is an experiment into writing a fantasy ‘poem’ made up of haiku. It was written in 2004 as part of a poetry workshop. It starts like this: Dragon scales, its falling armour raining leaves .   can be found in   An Anthology of Dragons has been uploaded to both Smashwords and Kindle, and is awaiting release.

Duelling with the Dragon has now been uploaded to Amazon Kindle and is awaiting release.  

Anthology1 has a name. It’s had a name for months, but I haven’t wanted to share it, until I was sure I could actually complete it and get it off the ground. Anthology1 is called An Anthology of Dragons . It is just over 13,690 words long and contains three short stories and two poems, written over a period of 18 years. The pieces range from pure fantasy (although without the ubiquitous wizard) to contemporary speculative, and haiku-esque. Over the next few days, I’ll share the cover, first paragraphs and lines from stories and poems, and let you know when this sucker goes live. In the meantime, I’ll be formatting for upload and preparing Anthology2 and Anthology3 for release, while I rewrite DarkFantasy1 and complete CrimeNovel1 and RomanceNovel1… amongst other things.