The Severis Tales 7: The New Neighbours ©2020.8 Patrick Rivers About ten years ago, Dorothy Tomlinson passed away at the age of eighty-two. Her husband, Emil, also of the same age, could no longer live by himself. It forced him to move from 10 Pine Street, his home for forty years. The house stayed vacant,… Read more »
Hello, friends. It’s been awhile. First, let me say that I’m still here and still going. The past few months have been challenging for all of us—even here, in Northern Ontario, where our COVID cases are now sparse and very few. Last time I did a blog post, I believe we were still in stage… Read more »
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and with a little more time on my hands, I thought I’d share a small update regarding the look and feel of the website. I have tweaked around with the site layout and fitted it to work in a much smoother and flowing way. It is less crunched… Read more »
I’ve been busy since the last update, so I thought I’d give an update on what’s going on. Before we get into it, however: Happy Gregorian and Chinese New Year! As I’ve said, I’ve been quite busy working to get the first book of Zephora Crisis out of the way and into the public. That’s all I’ve… Read more »
The next instalment of The Severis Tales is up. The sixth story, Terrence Gets Painted, concerns Terrence Howard in an adventure with his own painting, one that causes a lot of unexpected attention and stress when his painting, done by final year art student Leah Evans, attracts a wide amount of attention from the media. They must take… Read more »
The Severis Tales 6: Terrence Gets Painted (C)2019.12 Patrick Rivers It was one of those events that defined them, an event of consequence and secrecy. It was their first taste of fame; and with that, they all learned a lesson that, for a few of them, would be taught the hard way. Against all those… Read more »
When I began creating a fantasy world, called Elineer, that would serve as the basis of a large range of media, I wanted to create a trilogy or series of books of a very important point in time of the history of that world, but shape it so that there can be content before and after… Read more »
In another Sunday human RAM dump, I thought I’d take a break from opinions on creating your own worlds and instead focus on a topic that makes the difference in how you write: your environment and your kit.
In this week’s un-planned and mainly unedited Sunday post, I wanted to share some thoughts about what is considered “truly unique” when we create something. There is no need to overstate the fact there are millions of books and stories floating around the Earth at any given moment, be it sitting idly on a long-forgotten… Read more »
Many people collect books. Sometimes, they collect a lot of books. Maybe, they collect too many books, and they have no place to place them. They sit in boxes, or they sit on top of shelves and on top of other books. Either way, a library of books shows what type of collector you are.… Read more »