Tag Archives: beta readers

Pearl Barley and the Surge of the Spirits #fantasy #comedy

Posted on Feb 10, 2022 by TanGental

A lot of you, certainly those who’ve read some of my blog for a while, will know I developed a character for various prompts. Pearl Barely is a 20 something trainee exorcist working for one of several secular exorcism businesses. … Continue reading →

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Verse Or Worse

Posted on Dec 27, 2018 by TanGental

I blame Robbie Cheadle. Something she wrote anyway. You couldn’t blame Robbie per se. Far too nice. The thing is she started me thinking about poetry. My poetry. Writing prose is a joy but often writing poetry is hard. Really … Continue reading →

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Splish Splosh, Here Comes The Sun #garden #betareaders #thelastwillofsvenandersen

Posted on Apr 7, 2018 by TanGental

Scotland, at Easter was dry and blue. Hereabouts it rather precipitated down and I came home to a small lake at the end of the garden, frogspawn on the lawn and the remnants of recent frosts apparent in some burnt … Continue reading →

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Buster and Moo – the end or the beginning

Posted on Jan 10, 2016 by TanGental

A year ago I wrote a post detailing how I intended to write a novel in weekly instalments. The novel – Buster and Moo – developed into a Thursday slot, a chapter most weeks. November 2015 came and I became … Continue reading →

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God Bothering

Posted on Nov 20, 2014 by TanGental

Maurice Oldham, known to one and all as Mo, feels life is passing him by as he heads for the wrong end of his thirties. When his wife losses her baby in the latter stages of her pregnancy, his world falls apart. … Continue reading →

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