A Fictional Start
A few months ago I was asked to write something creative for a new web project and decided I would try a little bit of fiction. This wasn’t entirely new, I had dabbled with poetry and, well before...
View Article10k and Running
Or rather walking. After setting myself a modest target of 2000 words a week, to allow for all the other stuff I find myself doing, it’s with some satisfaction that I find the Novel with No Name has...
View ArticleThe Network is No More
Slightly heavy heart today, though considerably lighter shoulders; the Underminers Network – the discussion board, that is – is no more. I had a reminder from my domain provider today that...
View ArticleLooking for an Agent
Here’s a picture of a pile of A4 paper, printed in double-space, double-sided, 11 point text. An agent wouldn’t like that, but it’s okay because the manuscript in the photo is just so a few people can...
View ArticleGuest Essays – At Last A Page
Buried in the pages of Underminers are the words of many others, all of whom I respect and consider to be Underminers in their own special way. From the very beginning, the book was meant to be a...
View ArticleThe Conorol Trilogy
I think it’s a truism that writers have many lives – one of them is lived in the world that everyone else occupies, others are lived in whatever world that person is constructing around them as part of...
View ArticleAfter Seasonturn : The Author as Underminer
Catharsis. That’s the reason a lot of people write, and some days it does seem like I’m writing to rid myself of whatever is trapped inside my head. I’ve had a pretty good life; no one could deny that,...
View ArticleAutumn Migration
(or Fall, if you prefer) Just a quick announcement to let everyone know, the website that used to host the Time’s Up! / A Matter of Scale is officially no more. The pages are still there if you have...
View ArticlePulped
This morning, the result of many emails, I received two large boxes. Inside are many copies of Underminers which have been saved from the process the publishing industry calls “remaindering” or...
View ArticleUnderminers in German
With very little effort from me, and a huge amount from a fellow traveller, the German translation (I think of it as a “translocation”) of Underminers is now available from...
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