Day 2: The First Boat Ride.The first piece in this series was posted here on 24th July (you’ll find a link to it at the end of this post). I had intended to follow it with this piece within a few days, but life got in the way! So, here’s part 2 for you.Having realised …
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The last time I wrote here on this topic was, remarkably, on 1st May this year. So, what have I been doing since? That’s a long story, but mostly, as you will be aware if you follow this blog, I was engaged in slimming down my website to make it more concentrated on my books, …
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Derwent Water, seen from the edge of Keswick. You'll find the full article, with many illustrations, here on Medium, where the link will let non-members read the piece in full without charge. My non-writing posts will generally appear on Medium from now, as I intend to keep this website dedicated to my books and writing. …
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I'm a storyteller, a creator of imagined players set in diverse surroundings and faced with challenges to entertain readers. I'm not a techie, so this task of modernising and redesigning my website has been a challenge. I hope the result is to your liking. And, as I always say, 'Enjoy the read!'
Just to let you know my website is under reconstruction. I'm finding a few problems and seeking some technical help from WordPress, so hopefully it will be up and running again in the not-too-distant! Wish me luck.
Book series ought to deliver what the author promises in the first book of such a group. The two trilogies introduced here are already complete, each with three volumes published and available. You can begin the adventure confident that the end of the story is already written, completed and set in print.Both these trilogies were …
Just to let you know, this website, which has been around for quite a while, is being redesigned and modernised. Due to the amount of content on the original site, this is taking a little more time that originally anticipated. Please bear with me while I complete this process and return to some form of …
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My novel, Breaking Faith, a Romantic Thriller is set in England and Scotland during the extended drought and heatwave of 1976, 50 years ago. We've just suffered (or enjoyed, depends on your love or hate of heat!) another unusual heatwave here in England. It didn't last as long this time, and many places continued to …
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Continuing last week’s theme, here I’m letting you know more about my latest published novel, An Excess Of…, which refuses to be classified in a single genre. Some categories that fit will, I hope, also suit your reading preferences: Eco Thriller, Literary Fiction, Environmental Disaster Novel, Shipwreck Survival Story, Future Pandemic.A short introduction: Six strangers. …
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I’m trying something new today. I’d like more readers for my books and you might be tempted to become one of them. There’ll be one a week, in no particular order. My first published novel, Breaking Faith, is a romantic thriller. With elements of betrayal, excitement, tragedy, sex, despair, hope, longing, fulfilment, and love it’s …
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I’ve finally finished the stage of adding contemporaneous events to the storyline. Rendering such happenings in a way that allows them to integrate seamlessly with the story, rather than appear as mere markers in time, isn’t easy, but I believe I’ve managed it.Now I need to begin the slightly more tedious technical edit to spot …
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I should’ve done this last weekend, but life events can sometimes get in the way of best intentions, can’t they?No matter, here’s the latest update on the current novel I’m wrestling into presentable form. I last updated you on 3rd April, here. At that time, I’d already started inconspicuously inserting historic events into the timeline …
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As promised, surprisingly I’m managing to convert intentions to action, so here’s a brief report on current activity on the WIP. See my post on 22nd March here. The process of adding factual, real events to the novel is moving forward. Perhaps not as rapidly as I’d hoped, but movement is movement and we have …
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Books, writing, reading, words. I love them; do you?
Stuart Aken 