Christoffer Petersen

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Something completely different… again!

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Algorithms! That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking with it! Alternatively, I could just confess and say I love fantasy books. I simply can’t write crime and thriller books all the time. I need to shake it up a little, and what better way to do that than to write in a completely different genre. Yes, I’ve done this a lot, but this time I’m planting my literary feet right in the middle of the world of mythical beasts and creatures. I’m doing so with another Welsh pen name to further embrace the Welsh blood in my veins. Oh, and to confound the algorithms!

As an aside, it’s curious… I’ve never done well at maths and it haunts me. Whoever thought algorithms were a good idea, never thought to ask. Just saying!

Anyway, revealing Iago Jones and his books in this post, will also reveal a few more stories that I have written, published, and hidden from the world – not intentionally. Well, actually, maybe intentionally. However, here they are with links to:

If you’re here for the Greenland crime and thrillers because you read crime and thriller books, then let’s just agree that these stories probably aren’t for you. 😉

Chris

One day I’ll finish this …

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I’ve got so many projects, so little time. Although … soon I’ll be a footloose and fancy free full-time author again! 🙂 So who knows? Maybe A Moonlight (Moonlit?) Climb might become something.

Until then, I’ll leave you with my sketches and a little text from the book.

Oh, and mum, have a great day! 😉

Chris

P.S. Yep, I’ve posted this before … but not in 2022. 😉

The Beast in the Basement!

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It’s my own fault. I didn’t build a studio, I built a sweat box! Although, there’s plenty of room, if I don’t move. There’s even a fan to cope with… well, I mentioned the sweating.

Sorry, I forgot the sweat warning!

Apologies.

Anyway, I built the beast a few years ago, and what with one thing and another, I never really got around to recording anything. It’s all set, just waiting. Maybe 2022 will be the year I overcome the fear and just “get in the box”? Yep, it’s a horror movie in the making! (Various “build” photos below.)

However, if you ever get your hands on an audiobook, read by me, just think of what I went through to make it happen. 😉

Chris

Back when I wrote Steampunk!

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I’ve mentioned the tradition I had about sacrificing my first drafts to the sea, and if I managed to grab them, then they were meant to be. Well, I performed the ritual sacrifice each time on Denmark’s west coast, with varying success, and, to date, very, very few sales. 😉

Just keep writing!

Which is what I did.

And for the curious among you, the draft in question was Slow Demons.

Chris

Putting it all together, part 2 … maybe 3

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With everything that’s going on in the world, my mind is wandering a lot at the moment. I’ve already deleted the bones of this post twice – I just don’t have the words. I don’t feel able to comment, so I won’t. I’ll save that for another time. Maybe “get it out” in a book, like I’ve done before. We’ll see.

Until then, in an effort to stay focused, I’ve turned to cover design, losing myself in compiling images, tweaking contrast and all that. The Zero is the latest result – one of them.

As with all the covers I make, I tend to get lost in the story, and this particular story is cooking. So much so, I’ve created a page for it as if it is going to become something. It’s totally off genre for Christoffer Petersen, but hey, it’s fun, distracting, and, like I said, it has yet to “happen”.

Although, I’ve got a feeling …

I’m channelling my seven-year-old self, remembering a trip to the Natural History Museum in London, spreading my dinosaur books over the table in the train carriage, plaguing my mum with all my dinosaur knowledge, facts that I promptly forgot when I turned fifteen.

Why does that happen, anyway?

Never mind.

I’ve got the cover ready. Now all I need is to write the story!

Chris