CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

...the good news is that I am slowly getting back into the swing of things. The year has been a bit turbulent, with a lot of Life events, leading, as they do, to Life changes. I have written more work-for-hire than I planned, in order to cover an unexpected employment shift, and my parents have both been very sick in the last few months, although one is now recovering as well as can be expected, and the other is doing okay despite being in palliative care. These events and the time taken to look for a more regular day job, have impacted my own writing, which slowed to a complete stop, even though I've completed four joint projects and am working on a fifth. As well as that, I'm also sure those of you who've been following my YouTube channels have seen the effects of these changes, there, as well. Don't worry; we're working to change that, and you'll see some of those changes this month, one of which will involve this blog, which has been long neglected and will ...

Home Aboard the Heartbreak is a science-fiction short story based in Fireside Creations’s The Lost 77 Worlds setting , and it was recently accepted for the next Apocalyptic Space anthology. I wrote Home Aboard the Heartbreak in early December, and received an acceptance shortly thereafter. You can FIND OUT MORE about The Lost 77 Worlds Setting HERE and the Apocalyptic Space anthologies HERE . AND you can order the first Apocalyptic Space Anthology HERE .

The Lost Bells of Angarune is a fantasy short story set in the world of the Dragonscales RPG . I submitted it to Fireside Creations in September, was excited to have it accepted into the Dragonscales Anthology, Volume 1 in October, and have just learned that it will release in January 2019. Talk about an awesome way to start next year! The Dragonscales Anthology is the only place you'll be able to find The Lost Bells of Angarune. The Dragonscales Anthology will be available in both paperback and Kindle ebook formats, and you can PREORDER the paperback NOW from THIS SITE .

I've decided I'll go ahead and make things available on Kobo . I'd already started, but then I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue, so I thought about it for a while, and decided I'd see how things went. Unfortunately, this means I have a lot of catching up to do, which is what I'm doing, now. I'll give a general update of what I add to the site each day, until I've caught up. At the same time, I'll be adding the new releases at the same time as I upload those to other sites. Here are the titles I've added so far this week - they may take a couple of days to appear, but they've been submitted:

The first week of September was a bit rough from a health perspective, right up until I figured that almost two weeks of not exercising was having an adverse effect on my creativity and production. I returned to my walking routine on Tuesday, and, by Wednesday things had started to improve across the board – I even managed to start sleeping properly again. So, exercise and sleep, two very important things to being able to write, and not a wasteful diversion of time. Repeat after me: Exercise and sleep are not wasteful diversion of time. Right? Got that? Okay, so you get to remind me of this next time I fall off the wagon, okay? Yeah, okay – I’ll remind me of that next time. Writing-wise, I got things moving, again. Not as much as I’d like, but I’m working on getting back up to speed. And then Week 2 hit, and I struggled. I struggled for most of Week 3, too. Week 4 saw me completing the essay-in-lieu for one subject, and hoping for the essay question for the essay-in-lieu for the ot...