CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I'm currently writing the final hundred or so entries for Another 365 Days of Flash Fiction, and I start each one of them with the first words that come into my head and go from there, so they're a mixed batch. This is the second 'Simon' story that's arrived in the last week...and I'm kinda liking the way the world is building around the wizard. This one is about his legacy, and I'll put it here in full. It's also a cat story, and this isn't the first time this cat has appeared. She has something to say, I think. Simon's Heir Simon stood on the wall where the mage had died. He wanted the wind to go away. He wanted the magic to cease, to leave him out of its senseless ramblings. He did not want to end up like his namesake, Simon-on-the-Wall. He wanted to live. A faint mewing interrupted his thoughts, the cat suddenly winding around his shins catching him by surprise. “What? You think I should become a wizard?” She curled once more around ...

With the completion of the first novel in the Lunar Wolves series, The Unwilling , I've started work on the second novel in the series, The Unwanted . In other news, the cover for The Unwilling has arrived and you can see it below. It was created by Jake at JCaleb Design , and I'm looking forward to seeing what he comes up with for this book. The other covers are by Mihaela Voicu (on the left), and Moonchild Ljilja at Fantasybookdesign (on the right). So, without further ado: Starting Words: 7,229 Finishing Words: 13,329 Words Written: 6,100 Other Words: 0 Other Project/Project Aspects Advanced: 2 Excerpt: In which Oliver learns that he and Lewis may have leapt from the frying pan into the fire: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- His beta shot him a resigned look and then tried to turn away as the first strike fell. Oliver’s wolf rose and, this time, he welcomed it. He roared di...

These updates are a little (a LOT) behind, so I'll space them out over the next few days. Very shortly I'll be starting on NaNoWriMo Day 17 - although by 'shortly', I mean after the words-for-hire. It's been a long morning on the homeschooling front and I'm late starting as a result. So, after a midnight finish, on NaNoWriMo Day 8, I faced a jam-packed day on Day 9... scraping through with the words late that evening. Starting Words: 17,213 Ending Words: 19,343 Total for the Day: 2,130 Extract: Oliver starts to realize the consequences of what he's done: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe he should have been grateful, since he was one of the few Dust Pack members to have returned to Lunar One. Most of the others had left and stayed away, no matter how much the moon’s soft grays reminded them of home. That home was no more, and they’d secured the pack’s f...