If you like reading about interesting people dealing with interesting situations then you're at the right place. You can order paperbacks or get electronic versions. Also try before you buy by downloading previews. One of my readers said "What I like about your stories is how they're unpredictable as you read them but by the end everything makes perfect sense." Other nice things have been "I was right there!" and "I can't believe how you balance doubt and determination." My favourite is "When I got to the end I wanted to read it again." Me:"Why?" "Because I read it as a story without appreciating the ideas I sort-of understood by the end."
If you want twee drivel, internal monologues, action stories with two-dimensional comic-book characters, fantasy fighting or 'it happened to me so it must be worth reading' then you're definitely in the wrong place. Just because my books are easy to read doesn't make them trivial.
There's nothing like the feel and smell of a proper book. Everyone knows to leave you alone and the rest of the world is blocked-out as you live the lives written on the pages. Become immersed in heroes and heroines, romance, niggle... worry... fear! And happy cleverness and strength of your characters. You put them on a stage of a private theatre. Indulge and keep. Delivery by post takes between one and two weeks to the UK. Prices vary on number of pages.
Computers are great aren't they? You can have a whole library on a single USB stick. Even lobotomised tablets like Kindles can read PDF format. You can change font size, brightness, search and look-up strange words in a dictionary or encyclopaedia. Tablets are easy to hold and even take to bed. Not as personal as a book but very convenient for many people. Delivery by email takes a few minutes. Novels are generally £4.00.
For some people their phone is their number-one device. I've reformatted the text into a sort of very long newspaper column. It's a lot of scrolling down but absolutely perfect for carrying about with you. Delivery by email takes a few minutes. Novels are generally £4.00.
Some people have practical difficulties reading. Whether physical or mental, it's possible to make it easier to read by altering parameters such as text size, line spacing, colours and highlighting tiny punctuations. Then an HTML format (really just a self-contained web page) can be tackled by established Assistive Technologies. Delivery by email takes a few minutes. Novels are generally £4.00.
I was born at an early age and called Peter Fox. For decades I was a computer-whizz in the City of London and elsewhere. Writing began to take over in the late 2000s, first as a change from the grinding precision of developing programs, then as a fun hobby. It's very hard for a technical writer who has to get everything right first time to adapt to the bohemian world of chasing ideas just in case they turn out to be worthwhile. For the best part of ten years I was writing on average 33000 words a month. When you've got interesting characters in interesting situations it's like getting them out of the toy-box to play with. A glass of cider is a cracking muse. Definitely fun to write and awesome later when rewriting.
When people say "think outside the box" I say "What are you doing in a box in the first place?" I don't write predictable or any specific genre. For example a book based on making a time machine is about a young lad growing-up in the 1970s and dealing with romance and chilling paradoxes. Mediaeval Minda is a very strong teenage fighter but there's no magic and no swashbuckling. If anything the lessons of responsibility for youngsters are very sobering, yet we all love her for what she achieves in relationships, determination and happy outcomes.
Freddie the teacher began as the single phrase Freddie didn't want to go to the stonings anymore. A writer can't shrug that off without exploring. I've tried to write nasty and unpleasant characters but as you'll see in The Man Who Thought He Was Evil and Murder for Pleasure and Profit, my supposed villains turn out nice.
Two recurring themes appear. Outsiders or loners joining people into social groups and families. That's a lovely outcome. For example Tom in Good Apple finds step-parents and then a wife, things that were unthinkable in his previous life. The second theme is leaders taking responsibility and growing their support teams; especially important when things go wrong or need tough action.
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