Update!

Just in, hot of the press, 30 minutes ago.

Hi Reg,

Sorry, missed this one. I thought I had answered all my NR messages.

We will be with your book this month - what with total re-writes of books, our Internet collapsing for several days, new promo initiatives, the summer holidays and a thousand e-mails flying around from authors wanting updates, life is a little but hectic, but we are busting through.

So there you have it peeps, the mills of Night Publishing grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine... or was it the Mills of Justice?
Ah, whatever.

I've been asked by a very nice lady to write a piece fror her Blog about extreme music and why I like it. Actually, what Hannah really asked for was a write up on loud music and beer drinking of which I'm quite the scholar at, if I say so myself.

Anyway, I'll be doing that shortly.

Apart from that, I'm plodding along nicely with The Eckton Empire.
I've managed a whole bunch of ideas for my Classical Horror short story thing and done enough research on it to cure Ebola!!

As I wrote, not much going on, but it's getting there...

Take it easy Peeps.
Reg.

PS. I'm playing a gig on Saturday as well. It's going to be a fiasco!! The organisors have billed it as a festival but there's only TWO bands playing... DOH !!
Total Fail.
Whatever, I get to play live, drink free beer and scoff free bratwursts so it won't be THAT bad now, will it? Yuck yuck yuck...

An idea.

My good friend Teresa Geering, (of Shasta's Summer fame) had a suggestion a couple of years ago that has sort of grown on me recently.
Her brainwave was for me to put all my short stories in one book and publish it.

To be honest, I hadn't given them much thought. They were written in a mad rush when I realised that it helps to have a history of published works when trying to sell your book to a publisher or agent. Disposable pieces that would fill a specific role and then politely shrivel away into history once their job was done.

I was happy with all of them but two of them stood out from the crowd. The Ides of March about Caesar being a vampire and The Hot Gates which is the story of the 300 Spartans with a vampire twist to it.
Make no mistake, I researched them thoroughly and used real characters and timelines to fill in the background, but when they were published they stopped being essential and were promptly banished to the darker regions of my hard drive.


I wrote a third, "good one" set in a German penal battalion in the Second World War, very much along the same lines as "Division". Vampires changing Wehrmacht convicts into vampires as one of Himmler's ghastly plans to win the war. The novelette is with my mate Andi Renson, who's contemplating knocking up a set of drawings to make it into an illustrated story... when he has time, (Why oh why is time in such great demand nowadays? It's all very unfair.)

Anyway, I digress, The Idea:
Teresa's concept has now been given an injection of vigour since Johannah Frappier mentioned how easy it is to publish on Amazon Kindle. Apparently one can publish on Kindle from home, all you need is a computer and Amazon account. The money goes to you and you alone, (and Amazon and the taxman of course) and it's free!!

Well, that's how I read it the first time around anyway.

So how about this then, I write maybe two more stories about vampires, perhaps one with Alexandra the Great, (nah, too gay) or Hannibal? Now I like that idea!! Maybe have vampire elephants?? No, even better, carnivorous elephants; now that rules!!

And how about one about Troy?? Another good one there, maybe Hector is a vampire and Achilles knows his secret?? Well, something along those lines anyway. Or maybe Carthage?!?! Yes, I like that idea, Carthage is the home of another vampire plague?  Whatever, scribble them down, edit them, (or ask George to for me) and then whap 'em up on Amazon for fifty pence a download?

An anthology of vampires through the Classics!!

Any thoughts on this peeps?
Reg :-D

My first boss.

My first boss.

From my other blog.
Feel free to read and comment.
Reg.

The story so far...

So peeps, I haven't been very good at keeping you updated recently so let me tell you what's been going on.



Yep, that's about it really.
Nothing, nada, niente, niks, rien du tout, gar nichts.
I asked for a ball park figure on when Division might be taking the world by storm, or Blitzkrieg and Tim reckons July/August.

My mate, brother D King, Wanger and all round good guy The Chief, from Combat Colour graphics is going to make me a new cover; which is jolly Welsh of him. I just need to send him the format needed, which unfortunately I can't seem to find out
:-(

Yeah and ... ... ... ... well that's it actually.
So you see, much ado about nothing, nada, niente, niks, rien du tout, gar nichts...

Like always.
Reg :-/

Why can't I write comments on Blogger?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH !!

What is going on with Blogger?
I want to write comments on your posts, peeps, but it isn't letting me.
They better sort it out soon or I'm off to another provider! There, that'll show 'em!

Reg :-(