Seeing double? You’re not mistaken. I got my scheduling wrong and posted this yesterday by mistake. ๐
Going Guerrilla! Book 1
The Lost Patrol!
The Lost Patrol is out today. This is the twenty-sixth Greenland Missing Persons novella. Twenty-six? Yep. I had to double check becuase there is a character from The Polar Bear Screen in it. I thought I wrote that one just the other month. Actually, The Polar Bear Screen is number sixteen.
Crazy.
But true. ๐
The Lost Patrol is a kind of story within a story story, if that makes sense? It made sense at the time. ๐ I’ll let you decide.
Here’s the book page, and that shameless Amazon link. ๐
Chris
My Pet Project
What started as a pet project, something I needed to take a break from Petra and Maratse, has become something of a big pet project, which, considering the subject matter, is wholly appropriate.
However, as tends to happen with my projects, the Reviver series has gotten a little out of hand. ๐ I’ve got various projects on the go, with one published novel, 12 short stories (including one novella), a collection, lots of projects close to being published, a couple of pre-orders, and, not least, a growing collection of stories on my Patreon page which I will publish in the Dino Dice collection at the end of 2024. (You can always read those stories on Patreon prior to publication. Just saying.)
Now, while that’s quite a decent collection already, I’ve gone back in time, too. Not just with the beasts, but with the characters. Not quite sure what possessed me, but I wrote a short story with Romans and dinosaurs. I liked it so much, I’m working on a follow-up novel! ๐
I feel a list coming on.
But wait, before the list, I’ve also gone forward in time, too, with a new novel for a new spin-off series called Planet Reviver.
Yeah, you can’t make this stuff up, except that I have. Now that the faucet has been turned on, I’m struggling to turn it off again. ๐ Typical!
And the palindrome connection? Well, that’s because I liked the idea of palindromes for titles, with a bit of a link to things coming full circle, etc. No, don’t read too much into that, folks. I’m really not that smart. But I am productive, so how about that list?
Reviver (the main series – all novels)
- Reviver
- Phase Two (will be sent as Kickstarter stretch reward to Reviver backers)
- North Bane (standalone(ish))
- Dark Designs – link to follow
- Perishable Gods – link to follow
Short Stories with a Big Bite (connected to Reviver)
- Proof
- The Dinosaur in Central Park
- Exfil
- Deified
- Kayak (novella)
- Warbird (no dinos, but very connected)
- Mojave Monster
- The Dinosaur Stoop
- Tall Tales
- To the North
- The Colombian Blend (I stuck my sister and her fiance in this one!)
- Winter Spoor
- The Dungale Bothy
Stories 1-10 are collected in Short Stories with a Big Bite: Volume 1
Reviver: Legion (the Romans!)
- War Spine (short story)
- Claw Legion (novel)
Dino Dice (short stories on Patreon to be collected in one or more volumes)
- Supersaurus (connected to Reviver)
- The Dragonfly
- The Day of the Mammoth (connected to Reviver)
- Silly Old Fossil
- Clamp. Clack. Repeat.
- A Pebble by Any Other Name (connected to Reviver)
The Dino Dice stories are inspired by the roll of story dice, and written from the moment I post the image of the dice on Patreon, and uploaded one or two hours later.
Planet Reviver (deep space dino action and adventure)
- Pterosaur Expedition (novel)
As you can see, what started as a pet project, really did get out of hand. But then, you know, I’m good at that. Ideas just spin off each other, until I’m herding cats and trying to link it all up, connecting the dinos and all that. This really is a labour of love and I imagine being at it well into the future.
In between writing more Maratse and Petra adventures, of course! ๐
Chris
P.S.
I’m still working on that “10 year overnight success” career plan. We’re currently in year six. So, all being well, only four more years of struggle and then we’re off! ๐ Yay!
Yep, that’s my Arnold Schwarzenegger supercharged positivity, right there! Bless him.
It’s tradition!
Over several years, Jane and I have built up a fleet of folding kayaks and one folding canoe. At the risk of breaking things – windows and televisions included – we always put the kayak together in the living room first. The above kayak, a Folbot “Kodiak”, was sponsored by Folbot for my solo kayak expedition the following year. We put it together on this day in April, 2009.
In November 2006 we built our first Folbot, the Greenland II. Yep, Jane’s gonna love me for this photo. ๐
I know I built this one in the living room too, but can’t find the evidence. You’ll just have to trust me. ๐ It’s another Folbot, a solo model called a Cooper.
And the original ALLY folding canoe, built in our flat in Glasgow back in 1999, I think. Yep, this one came with a hammer! ๐
A life less cluttered
On this day, several years ago, one of my favourite photos.
And this one…
Just one more. ๐