Hello everyone.

This update is a bit out of routine.

I recently got a bit of a shock and wanted to share, that with a sad heart Andy Remic the fantasy and sci fi author lost his battle with cancer today. He died at the age of 50, leaving his wife and two kids.

By the sounds of it, he was a much loved teacher, a filmmaker and generally, a bit of an adventurous sort.

If you are unfamiliar with him and would like to find out more about him, please follow this link here.

Anyway, I think I'm going to start reading Kell's Legend again.

Kell's Legend by Andy Remic

Andy Remic, Sci-Fi and 
Fantasy author

Hello everyone!

I'm just writing this before a writing session. But a couple of things have happened during the week that I can update everyone on.

The first bit is that Dan Coghlan is making headway on a novella that he's been meaning to have finished for a while. It involves his elf barbarian - Gwaeloch Irisgarth - going on the hunt for a Master Wizard with their apprentice in tow and getting themselves involved with a city ruin and necropolis system filled with ancient elven undead, including a mummified elite. There are also evil satyrs and rotten dryads to contend with along the way.

He reckons that he could very well be about two fifths of the way through. It's taken a week to get those seven and a half thousand words done, but progress is being made each day. He'd like to get more done each day but has been having trouble with some dastardly migraine headaches.

Thankfully, Dan Coghlan also has a couple of other short stories including the same character under his belt in first draft form and hopes to get them sorted in short order. Those he hopes to send out to some magazines or anthologies when they're done.

After this, he also has another novella planned including a clan of Fimir, another story that may become a novella involving a cannibal hold of dwarves. There will be a short story including a pyramid complex under a city that holds an ancient evil, and another involving a wizard duel after a long night out.

On another note, I wanted to share something that was of inspiration to Dan.

Earlier this week, he received a copy of a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay book for the forth edition based around the Empire city of Altdorf.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e,
Altdorf: Crown of the Empire

He's a big fan of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and is loving this book. He has the Middenheim book in the same series and is finding  this one much more interesting, even though the Middenheim book is a very suitable book for anyone involved with that edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. He likes how its jammed packed with cults and spy rings, location showcases and NPCs. He says it really does paint a picture of a vast fantasy city.

Anyway, with that all covered, I hope you all are well and enjoy your week.

 Hello everyone!

I realise that it's been quite a while since I last left a post on here - has it really been more than two year?!

Anyway, I do still intend to upload to the blog on occasions, even if they are sporadic. I had first intended to upload weekly, then monthly. There was a period when I used the blog as a person interest thing with things of related content to what was being written, from folklore to the supernatural, from crime to literature. I suppose I haven't really fully grasped or appreciated what I could or should do with this blog.

I think I could still try and do that if things come up that are relevant. What do you think to that? I get the Fortean Times regularly and could comment on that?

I also got into wargaming and TTRPGs, I could comment on that too, if there was interest. Even if it was very minor. I know that's diversifying topics on something that should remain quite specific. But I'm thinking of using it for things that inspire or help or generally tie in some how with my writing and it's process.

Anyway, on the writing front, I am still forging ahead. I realise that over the last two years the world has gone a bit weird. Its plain weird all over now and though I've been quite lucky with it all, I've felt quite bogged down with everything that's gone on in this changing world and there have been a few health concerns on top of that too. I hope they are settling down now. I hope this will settle into something a bit more stable or generally better soon. Hopefully both.

So, that is sort of why I've not been up much.

Over the last few months, I have been trying to catch up with things a bit. Though Thadeus Morticaine is taking a bit of a rest from the writing process to ponder some of the strange things of the universe and wander the faery pathways into strange lands and find brilliant ephemeral things, Dan Coghlan has been quite busy.

Dan has been busting through a few first drafts. He has currently three short stories and a poem under his belt, though the poem and one of the stories he is unsure of what to precisely do with. There is also a novella he is currently working on, which will accompany another planned novella and a planned short story. There are also another two planned novellas and three planned short stories. Hopefully, he'll organise himself so that the first two connected novellas will be published over the next couple of months or so. He also has his mind set on a trilogy of novels too.

Needless to say, he is very much enjoying writing these Sword and Sorcery stories based on Gwaeloch Irisgarth the barbarian elf from the hill lands. Hopefully you'll be hearing more about all the magic and sword swinging action in later posts.

With that, I shall leave you all to enjoy your days, afternoons, evening and nights in the best way you can.