Honestly, Vertigo City is beginning to take over my life! After the release of The First Tale as an e-book last week, I’ve begun work on the follow-up, called City Alchemy. The story sees Liss go in search of her missing little sister, Teva, before going freelance as an adventurer-for-hire! There will be lots more […]
Tales from Vertigo City
Friday Flash – Time Stop
This flash was inspired by the very lovely Eric J. Krause‘s prompt over on his blog. This week, his prompt was “Time stands still for everyone but you”. Also, the impossibly brilliant Carrie Clevenger of Mindspeak requested more steampunk, so what better than to revisit the first incarnation of Vertigo City? Enjoy a new story […]
The Launch of The First Tale ebook
It’s finally here! The First Tale e-book is now available for 99c from Smashwords. Click here to buy! The e-book collects all thirty episodes of the serial that ran over on my Tales from Vertigo City blog, although naturally it’s been edited and tweaked to improve the flow, even out the tone and in a […]
The Impending End of The First Tale part 1
Commander Liss Hunt, Vertigo City Resistance On Saturday 20th February, 2010, I posted the first instalment of my very first web serial, The First Tale. I had no idea where it was going to go, or that a name I chose entirely off the top of my head was going to give birth to a […]
How They Met
Here’s my attempt for this week’s Fiction Friday challenge on the Write Anything blog, also submitted to the Friday Flash collection. The prompt was; Pick two established characters, either from your own work or others’. Now write the scene/story of their meeting. I decided to go with Commander Melissa Hunt and Dawkins, from my current […]
Tuesday Serial – It Begins
I was part of a Twitter discussion last week with a collective of other writers who are all attempting web serials, and we’ve decided to make Tuesday our ‘serial day’. Previously I’d been updating Tales from Vertigo City on Fridays, which is already #FridayFlash day, and I’ve often wondered if there’s too much of a […]