The world from my little corner
I have been rather lax of late in updating my site, but you may notice a bit of a change in direction in how I tell stories. My goal is still very much in creating and sharing narratives, but I have been working more in the space of 3D rendering and animation, rather than writing.…
I just received this wonderful “hands down 5 stars” rating and review by the delightful Didi Oviatt! via #review #5stars The Body in the Building, by Jane Stockwell @Stockwell_Jane In the Body in the Building, Natalie Shaw, or Nat, as we know her, has been thrown right in the middle of a murder investigation. Much…
My new novel, “The Body in the Building,” has been shortlisted for the “Cover of the Month” contest on AllAuthor.com! If you can spare a moment, please go to https://allauthor.com/cover-of-the-month/7506/ and vote for my book.
It’s been over a year since I started writing this story. Starting life as my #TwitterFiction project, where I wrote everything on Twitter, with the exception of the ending (as that would have given it all away). It was an interesting method and it helped me get past my excuse for not having the time…
I’m a few days late on this post, but on the weekend, I finally finished writing the complete manuscript for my new mystery novel, “The Body in the Building.” The last little bit took longer than I expected and a couple of additional chapters to get there. One of the things that annoys me is…
This week, I finished and published my fan fiction novella, “USS Montgomery: First Command.” I wrote a post about it in which I alluded to the intent to write a corollary about how the final version of the cover art came to be. I hadn’t actually planned to create a cover for either of my…
A couple of months ago, I started writing a short fanfiction story in the Star Trek universe. It was my very first attempt at writing both fanfiction and science fiction, so it was an interesting little exercise. USS Montgomery was short, only some five and a half thousand words, but it told a nice little…
One year and some twenty-three thousand words from the beginning of this project, the killer of The Body in the Building has been revealed! But… I’m an author, and this is what I (try to) do for a living. After writing the first fourteen chapters publicly, you will have to read the book to find…
In the words of the theme song for Star Trek: Enterprise, it’s been a long road, gettin’ from there to here. It has been that. I checked when I first started working on my #TwitterFiction project, and it was the 3rd of March last year. Just shy of one year since inception to near publication.…
The next chapter was a little like the calm after the storm of excitement that happened in Chapter 12. It took a little longer to write, three weeks as opposed to the two weeks that it took to write the previous one. I was also busy with work and the kids on school holidays, but…