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Tales by the Tree

By Alex Brightsmith November 30, 2013 1 Comment

I’ve been an intermittent presence here recently, so it’s a delight to come back, not only with pictures and links (a proper blog, no less) but with an announcement that’s far more exciting than I expected it to be. Although I didn’t link to them at the time (what with my stated views on premature […]

VisDare: Falling

I find it helps to think of her as falling. She is falling, her hair billowing behind her, when her memory ambushes me by daylight, still falling, still laughing, still blissfully unaware of the marble steps rushing up towards the base of her skull. It is only when she comes to me by night, and […]

The reinvention of First Chapters

By Alex Brightsmith November 24, 2013 Leave a comment

Last time that I mentioned First Chapters, they were just a discovery site: long samples of selected indie novels followed up with sales links and handy sharing buttons. As of this week, First Chapters is also a shop. It’s quite a little shop at the moment, but that’s because it’s very new. It’s actively recruiting, […]

VisDare: introducing Salventi

By Alex Brightsmith November 14, 2013 Leave a comment

I knew that she would have one of the private chambers above the hall. As I paused, uncertainly, a girl came giggling through one of the doorways, a shallow bowl cradled expertly in the crook of her arm, and as she glided past me I saw an oily sheen of colour on the water’s surface […]

VisDare: Another glimpse of Khyre

By Alex Brightsmith November 7, 2013 4 Comments

When I surfaced in the muddy shallows, at the feet of a startled waterman, I knew that I had been right to go first to the priests, though I had gone for the wrong reason. I had gone because I could not conceal their mark much longer, and to reject that mark is the sure […]