Tales of humour, whimsy and courgettes
Hurrah! Just a very quick blog post to say I have resolved my WordPress issues. Jetpack is connected. XMLRPC.php appears to be alive and kicking. All hail mega buttons! Thank you for bearing with me. I know something like 95% of you who read this blog only comment through the WordPress app.
“Aha, is that the Ebay app?” asked Hydra.
“Yeah, I have decided to sell my old vacuum,” replied Flower.
“Ah,” said Hydra. “For spares and repairs?”
“Well,” said Flower. “It’s just gathering dust…”
I know I haven’t mentioned this much, but the Little Fears Presents: Spiders has been released! It’s also free to buy the Kindle edition for the next two days.
USA Edition: http://a.co/gOujd5z
UK Edition: http://amzn.eu/33sberu
If you grab a copy and enjoy it, please don’t forget to leave a review.
Cheers!
Hey, there rabble you still have three more days to grab a free Kindle edition copy of spiders. Links are at the bottom of this post. The rest of this post will cover the closure a book can bring.
The Little Fears books give me closure on 3-4 month blocks of stories.
I had a comment from Phil Huston the other day, “Tell me. There is joy in putting a project on the shelf? “
Yes. For me there is. I like finishing projects. My end date moves all the time for every project, but generally, I like to conclude things. Finishing a project gives me a tremendous sense of freedom and excitement for the next project. The Little Fears as they currently stand have enough tales written to keep posting one new story a day until 2024’ish. About 2,000 stories left to publish. I’d like to get to get the Little Fears to 2027. A full ten year run of Fears daily tales!
When I created the first book, January, it was about 96 stories long. Three months of stories. It felt like a good length book. At the time it also allowed me to, well, literally close the book on the first three months worth of Little Fears. Mentally that enabled me to get on with putting together Capricorn and Spiders. The next book in the series will be Hydra. Self-contained as are the previous books, but with a running theme of Hydra seeking his identity. Imagine being told you only existed as a hope or a dream. Well, that’s all Hydra is. We can explore that idea of the unknown identity, even in classic Fears style. The following book, Grey Moon, centres entirely on our three favourite women, Fuen, Yuffie and Reala. All are working in a bar on the road to the afterlife. 90’ish stories that each flow into each other.
After that, we visit a post apocalyptic landscape, where we met a new rabble of Fears. Again, 90’ish tales forming a single story throughout now told from multiple perspectives. Lots of the usual Fears humour and along with it, some, drama flash fiction. After that another set of 90 tales, this time following a pun filled Little Fears murder mystery investigated by DCI Lily and Inspector Sally.
The point being in all this is that as the Little Fears move on on this site, the direction changes a few times. Always in 90’ish story blocks which take 3-4 months each to publish online as one story per day.
Ambling back to the original quote, with January, Capricorn and Spiders, they gave me closure on a 3-month block of stories. In the future, the Little Fears books will give me closure on a complete story arc. For someone who likes finishing projects and moving on, yes, putting those books on the shelf does bring me joy.
If you haven’t grabbed your free copy of Spiders yet, you have until Sunday! Take the links below. Want a copy on your local Amazon and can’t find or buy it? Let me know in comments. If you leave me a good review, please do let me know, as I cannot place Amazon reviewer names to blogs. Would be nice to give you an acknowledgement in a post here.
USA Edition: http://a.co/gOujd5z
UK Edition: http://amzn.eu/33sberu
Again, I am going to ask, if you grab a copy and enjoy it, please don’t forget to leave a review. They really help!
Cheers
(Original Spiders release announcement, with Synopsis and details here.)
A fizz followed by a flash of white light.
“For Christ sake,” he said, pulling the light off of his e-reader. He wouldn’t mind, but it was the sixth bulb this week.
The bed sheets rustled as he rummaged in the top drawer.
“I see you,” she said, from underneath the bed.
In case you missed the announcement recently, the Little Fears Presents: Spiders has been released! It’s also free to buy the Kindle edition for the next three days.
USA Edition: http://a.co/gOujd5z
UK Edition: http://amzn.eu/33sberu
If you grab a copy and enjoy it, please don’t forget to leave a review.
Cheers!
You’re going to see another 3 of these posts. An uncharacteristic spammy thing for me, but hey, this books three months overdue and technical issues, haha! Release week of the new book and CloudFlare nadgers up. Meaning, nobody can respond to this blog post or anything on the Little Fears website, in any way through apps. Classic Little Fears luck! The issue will be resolved by the weekend. Bear with us.
So, yes, OK, the book has been released! I have reviews on this one, thank you! A good solid shout out to Jan O, who has already left me a review! Cheers Jan! Linky to her website. To Brian Thomas (I think I know who you are) and Love2Earth, if you’re out there and reading this, get me a link to your websites. I’ll give you both a shout out too. Same to anyone else who gives me a good review as it goes.
To everyone else who follows me, Spiders is free to buy on Amazon until Sunday. There aren’t many ways bloggers can give something to their readers as a thank you for being awesome. But this is something I can give you. An opportunity to get the digital edition free. Hit the links below to the digital edition, hit buy, and you can read them on any tablet through the Kindle app or Kindle device.
USA Edition: http://a.co/gOujd5z
UK Edition: http://amzn.eu/33sberu
Again, I am going to ask, if you grab a copy and enjoy it, please don’t forget to leave a review. They really help!
Cheers
(Original Spiders release announcement, with Synopsis and details here.)
“I just don’t get these modern acronyms,” sighed Red.
“Such as?” asked Fuen.
“Like this one, IDK, what does that mean?” asked Red.
“I don’t know,” replied Fuen.
“Seems like nobody does,” sighed Red.
Badombomp!
In case you missed the announcement yesterday, the Little Fears Presents: Spiders has been released! It’s also free to buy the Kindle edition for the next four days.
USA Edition: http://a.co/gOujd5z
UK Edition: http://amzn.eu/33sberu
Again, I am going to ask, if you grab a copy and enjoy it, please don’t forget to leave a review! Rather happy, though in classic Little Fears fashion, something on my website has broken on release week. Doh!
Cheers
Well, thank feck for that! Finally, Spiders has been released! Man, this book was meant to be out back in June. The big things in life have been taken over by other big things, and honestly, I’m at least three months behind where I should be on everything. Now my house is finally decorated, I can get back on track a bit. That post I made a few months back about things I had in the pipeline for Fears, that’s getting caught up.
The first big thing this week is, of course, the release of Little Fears presents: Spiders. The third book in the Little Fears series. It’s entirely self-contained, with 94 humorous tales published on this site over the last three months. The digital edition is also free for the first five days of release.
I don’t do sales down the line. I always feel that’s a kick in the teeth to fans that have paid full crack for something, to see it then half price or free the following week. By giving the digital copy away free for the first five days of release, that’s only going to go to the Little Fears followers and subscribers. They, you, are the people who should get a free copy. Not some random Joe who spots a sale on in six months time who’s never followed anything I have ever done.
If you enjoy the book, please do leave a review on Amazon and consider buying the paperback edition for a friend who may enjoy my humour. Little Fears books, best served with lovely full-colour paper with fresh book smell.
If anything is going to save the Little Fears from awful punch lines, it is not Shadow eating a sandwich. In Spiders, Great British groaners are the order of the day as the assembled Little Fears make their way through 94 tales of hospitals, food, steps, night sight telescopes and revenge. Rabbit eats a password book; Spider goes to the hospital; Fish multi-tasks; Lady observes X; Sprite has a chain reaction. Written and posted with scruffy illustrations daily on LittleFears.co.uk. These brief vignettes (50 to 100 words) chronicle the continuing adventures of the Little Fears. With only a sense of whimsy and a deep love of old British comedy, Spiders will make you groan, cry and laugh until a bit of wee comes out, in a truly original, unoriginal, work of art and fiction.
USA Edition: http://a.co/gOujd5z
UK Edition: http://amzn.eu/33sberu
Again, I am going to ask, if you grab a copy and enjoy it, please don’t forget to leave a review!
Cheers
“Yuffie,” yelled Fuen. “You need to get some control over Hydra.”
“Why?” asked Yuffie.
“Because he diddled on my necklace,” ranted Fuen.
“Funny,” said Spectre. “He peed on my bracelet.”
“And my hair piece,” said Serpent. “He’s peeing on everybody’s jewellery, Yuffie!”
“Not on my watch,” replied Yuffie.
Hey hey, rabble! Little Fears Spiders, the Little Fears third book, has now been released. To you fine folk who follow me, you get first dibs. The digital edition is free for the next 5 days. Full announcement and fan fare will come later today. Feel free to hop on over to Amazon and grab a free digital copy early though.
USA Edition: http://a.co/gOujd5z
UK Edition: http://amzn.eu/33sberu
If you grab a copy and enjoy it, please don’t forget to leave a review!
Cheers
“Yeah it was pretty dramatic,” said Spectre. “Ruddy Taliban.”
“Good grief,” awed Fuen. “This was in the Middle East then?”
“Mhm,” motioned Spectre.
“How did you escape?” asked Fuen.
“Iran,” replied Spectre.
Badomtish!
The Little Fears third book, Spiders, is now on Amazon. Proper announcement tomorrow, because from the 30th of August to the 4th of September the digital edition of the book will be free to buy for everyone who follows my WordPress or social medias.
Cheers!
A sixth hand slipped its fingers around her throat and started pulling her into the dirt. She swore under her breath.
“Gem, how many bodies are down here?” asked Yuffie.
Gem grinned. “Too many.”
It was OK though. Yuffie knew she would come back from the dead either way. There was no coming back from where Gem was going.
Little Fears 