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As I've decided to focus more on Historical Romances this year, my writing plan has also changed, dropping out the Rom-Suspense story I had planned to set in Okinawa. It isn't disappearing just merely being shoved on the back burner. Updated Writing Plan 2019 - Tokyo Nights S2 (Being Published fortnightly) - First book in …
I've been busy writing on multiple fronts recently. Tokyo Nights: Season Two Episodes is currently being edited and episodes published every fortnight - so far two episodes have gone live. Also have begun working on my next WIP is an untitled novel centered around a paleontologist and a translator/guide he employeees during 1870's China. I'm …
Writing Tokyo Nights: Season One was always going to be challenge. Pushing myself to write, edit, publish and promote a story via instalments every two weeks, especially when each instalment – episode – averaged about nine thousand words. Releasing a story by instalments in of itself wasn’t new to me, I’d written plenty of fanfiction …
Continue reading Tokyo Nights: An Adventure in Serial Writing
Recently in some of the Facebook writing groups I’ve joined, we’ve been challenged to interview our characters. In two different groups I chose to interview the characters from the upcoming Tokyo Nights Novella featuring Jun Sagaki (who appears in Tokyo Nights: Season One) and the Manager of a Host Club in Kabukicho, Ikue Kirushima. Now …
Continue reading Character Interviews– Tokyo Nights: Sagaki and Kirushima
This weeks Rainbow Snippet is coming from a piece that I’m writing for a creative writing course. I’ve just finished the literary critique assignment (though I need to proof it again before I hand it in) and the next assignment is finally two-thousand words of our own writing. It is set in Okinawa and will …
This weeks snippet comes from Dangerous Life, the conclusion to The Yakuza and the English Teacher series, just released. This weeks is a little longer than six sentences but it loses its impact if I made it shorter. ………………………… He watched Jamie kneel on the tatami mats and pour sake into the men’s cups and …
Dangerous Life, the conclusion to The Yakuza and the English Teacher series. Jamie has had many new experiences since meeting Gou. He’s been kidnapped, threatened and forced out of the country. He’s been bought expensive bespoke suits and eaten at high-class restaurants. But his relationship with Gou had survived it all, grown stronger and appears …
