Tag Archives: Darx Circle

Out to Launch With Lunch

Posted on November 16, 2018 by colonialist

The latest of my launch dates was by invitation to an affair this morning hosted by District Six of the Durban Library network as part of their initiatives following Durban’s selection as the only UNESCO City of Literature in Africa. … Continue reading →

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Out to Launch – all of November!

Posted on November 2, 2018 by colonialist

I have been working hard to put this together.  I wrote the first book mentioned a while ago (but it has not officially been launched yet), and have had a hand in editing, formatting and publishing all the others. The … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Modesty

Posted on September 22, 2015 by colonialist

Uriah Heep Was nothing but a creep – The humble will Remain invisible, For what’s to see In showing modesty? If you are good, To say so’s what you should! Conceited man Will get much further than The ones who … Continue reading →

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Daily Post Photo Challenge: Cover Art: A Peak of Achievement!

Posted on October 27, 2014 by colonialist

How could I resist the Cover Art Challenge opportunity to give some more advance publicity to my long-completed but still held-up-on-editing fantasy, Darx Circle?  Here is the original picture I took of St Bernard’s Peak, and following it is my … Continue reading →

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The Furies of Wreyges

Posted on March 23, 2014 by colonialist

  I thought I’d brag a little by showing that the writing of Darx Circle had to go beyond the straightforward stuff of inventing new lands and characters and monsters. Here is a sample from a later stage of the … Continue reading →

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SUNDAY POST: FANTASY: WHAT COVERS THIS?

Posted on January 19, 2014 by colonialist

  The current theme set by Jake gives me an opportunity just too good to miss to pick brains on the subject of what I should think of adding to my proposed book cover for one of the novels I … Continue reading →

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DARX CIRCLE – NOVEL IN PROGRESS – CHAPTER 6(ii)

Posted on January 10, 2014 by colonialist

(See sidebar for Translator, Music, Novels, Awards etc.) (I do know that instalments of novels, whether completed or – as in this case – in progress, are not usually popular posts.   However,  they provide a useful way of relooking … Continue reading →

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‘Do’-ing ‘Re’-peat gives ‘Mi’ (‘Fa’ too much ‘So’) more ‘La’-‘Te’-tude.

Posted on January 9, 2014 by colonialist

The overwhelming outpouring of enthusiastic comments on my previous post saying, in effect, ‘Duh…?!’, together with some technical background stuff from Calmgrove, encouraged me to expand upon the infliction.  Here I do an even more obscure version of my graphics … Continue reading →

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DARX CIRCLE – NOVEL IN PROGRESS – CHAPTER 6(i)

Posted on November 12, 2013 by colonialist

(See sidebar for Translator, Music, Novels, Awards etc.) (I do know that instalments of novels, whether completed or – as in this case – in progress, are not usally popular posts.   However,  I have decided to continue this series … Continue reading →

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Darx Circle Chapter 5 (iv)

Posted on October 6, 2013 by colonialist

(See sidebar for Translator, Music, Novels, Awards etc.) CHAPTER 5 – The Ring and Between (For links to previous segments see sidebar.) Terrible things are happening in Rhino Valley, where Dengani comes across local farmers killed by leopards, and the … Continue reading →

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