Tales from the Sofa

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Guest Post: Fantasy & Sci-fi Rock My World

I wrote a guest post recently for my friend Mark Murphy and fellow Liverpool author, which was published yesterday on his website minology.co.uk.

Minology is a literary series set in the fictional fantasy world of the inside of a human man called Will. The min are a race of creatures that all work hard to make The Will function.

His first novel: The Curious Secret of Central Head is published by Netherworld Books and is available to buy from my Amazon store and follows the adventure of a pair of young min from the Luglands. Mark has just had the second Minology novel, The Disquisitive Saga Of Filbert Monkston, approved for publication. (I got a sneaky peek at the first draft and it’s fab!)

Ready my guest post here and have a little look around the rest of the site and get to know the world of The Will.

Guest Post: Fantasy & Sci-fi Rock My World

Crosby Herald

I’m super chuffed to be in the Crosby Herald. This is the local paper for the area where I grew up (my folks still live there). I’ve always loved reading through the Crosby Herald and finding out what is happening in the area, it’s generally far more interesting than the national newspapers.

Crosby Herald

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Taking a break from the Imperial City...

… But do steer clear of the gates of Oblivion.

For the first time in months we had nothing to watch and nothing to play. So we decided to take a trip to Cyrodill and see how our Nerd Leonard was getting on with the Elder Scrolls (4).

We’ve done it backwards – starting with Skyrim, in which we played a fearless high elf called Sheldon – we decided to create our own race for Oblivion – Nerd – and call our character Leonard, to continue our Big Bang Theory theme.

There’s something about the Elder Scrolls that just seems to transport us into a phantom zone between reality and holiday. In that it feels like it’s real, but we enjoy the sense of visiting new places.

Before going to bed last night I turned to my other half and said:

oh, you know that house we saw for sale? Well it’s 7000, I went and enquired up at the castle and the Count told me.

Now, doesn’t that sound like real life? (Apart from the castle and the count, oh and the price too!)

This is a game that sucks you in. We put it on for a quick visit and four hours disappeared.

But it’s a great game, the artwork is breathtaking and the missions that crop up in the course of just wandering around a small town are great fun to do.

I’m really enjoying being back there again and I hope Bethesda make more instalments… If only because I’ve still got to create Raj and Walowitz!

Taking a break from the Imperial City...

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Ormskirk and Skelmersdale

The same article has also appeared on the Ormskirk and Skelmersdale Asvertiser.

See it here

Ormskirk and Skelmersdale

Liverpool Echo

I’m particularly excited to be featured on the Liverpool Echo website, as the largest local newspaper for Merseyside it feels like quite a feat to get myself mentioned on there. This article features on the book signing at Pritchards Bookshop on 4th October.

Read it here

Liverpool Echo

Southport Visitor

I’m excited to have news of my book signing featured on the Southport Visitor website. The Visitor prints local news for people living in and around Southport. For those not familiar with the geography of the North West off England, Southport is the Northern most point of Sefton, which is a borough of Merseyside (also known as the Liverpool City Region).*