CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

A busy work week, and another week of clinging flu-like symptoms, but I still got a bucketload done. One release, and advances made on several larger pieces of work. Not bad. Let’s see how this week goes. Overview New words produced: 8,184 Old words revised: 14,962 Works completed: 2 (+ 23 poems and 9 short stories revised for other, larger works) Works revised: 32 (23 poems and 9 short stories revised for other, larger works) Covers created: 1 (1-3 variations) Works published: 1 (6 release platforms) +1 (blog) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 3 Tasks Chapbook10B— Flying with Friends : Revised chapters 1-8 and formatted; Extra Tasks Added 4,085 words to ShortStory36— Stiletto’s Luck, completing it at 7,398 words. Added 2,000 words to RPGSupplement7A Added 2,000 words to RPGSupplement15A Completed ShortStory64— Hasken’s Choice at 1,000 words for the latest Chuck Wendig terribleminds blog Flash Fiction Challenge ( Hasken’s Cho...

Occasionally, I remember that I'm no longer 'just' a writer, and then I get going with GIMP and some purchased photography, and create covers for the books being released by C.M. Simpson Publishing. It can be a challenge to schedule it all, but it's fun. Here are the covers I created this month: Print-on-Demand Large Print Print-on-Demand E-book E-book cover Print-on-Demand Print-on-Demand Large Print E-book

You can find the introduction to the Babes in London adventure sequence HERE , the background to Act One HERE , the Overview for Act One HERE ., Act One Scenes 1-2 HERE and Act One Scene 3 HERE . Act Two Preparation and Scene 1 can be found HERE and Act Two Scene 2 can be found HERE . To play or run this game you will need the following: PLAYERS: Fireborn Player's Handbook ; GAME MASTERS: Fireborn Gamemaster's Handbook ; This is a piece of fan fiction. It is NOT endorsed or acknowledged by Fantasy Flight Game s; it is IN NO WAY official; it DOES NOT indicate any form of relationship between myself and Fantasy Flight Games; and I DO NOT CLAIM any of the setting specific material or setting specific concepts as my own. GMs, please note that there are two sizable cut-scenes interlinked with Scene 3A. They will be posted over the next fortnight. You should not run Scene 3A until you have these cut-scenes, as they interrupt this scene when they occur. PLAYERS S...

Reading is an important part of writing - it refreshes the mind and gives new perspective. I'm still working my way through Dick Francis's novels. This month I returned and read some of his best.

Flying with Friends has been uploaded to the following platforms: Amazon-Kindle (.prc, print-on-demand) , DriveThruFiction (PDF) , Kobo (epub), OmniLit (.prc, PDF, html) , Smashwords (.prc, html, epub, text, PDF, rtf, lrf, pdb) , CreateSpace (print-on-demand). Those with links are available today, the rest will follow shortly. Jack has been looking forward to the Christmas holidays. Not just because it is a break away from school, but because, this Christmas holidays, he is going to learn to fly. The only thing that mars his trip is the flash of blue he sees behind them on a remote dirt track. Why would someone be following them way out here? Is he seeing things? Flying with Friends is the second book in the Wings chapter book series, set around a family with wings and bird-like feet.

This very hard to approach, photograph and see bird is a red wattlebird. If you look closely, you can see the red bits dangling just below its 'ears'. I have seen a yellow wattlebird, as well, but only in Tasmania. This one was photographed in Canberra, and was definitely not in a cooperative mood. See if you can find it in each of the pictures below.