SprawlBall Chase Novel Map Of Granville Island

Here's the sketch that Chase made of Granville Island before the fateful match in the novel SprawlBall...

Paragons Of Virtue Superhero Novels Original Strip pt 4

Here's the next instalment of the PoV strip that featured in Superhero UK - an amateur fanzine produced in the mid eighties by editor and role-playing gamer Jonathan Clark. We're talking mid 1980's...

Skin In The Game Garry Miller Free Copy

The 2nd book in the series of superhero novels "Skin In The Game" is available on Kindle for free as part of a 5 day promotion. Hurry - expires soon! [a bit like some of the characters!]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06VVBRV6V

Paragons Of Virtue Superhero Novels Original Strip pt 3

As I continue to unearth the ancient artefacts from the past that inspired the Paragons Of Virtue superhero novel series, her's the next instalment of the PoV strip that featured in Superhero UK - an amateur fanzine produced in the mid eighties by editor and role-playing gamer Jonathan Clark. 
















































This episode features Chase [from Paragons of Virtue series book 1 SprawlBall] the melancholic SprawlBall star at the team yard, with the alien warrior Gard [from the upcoming book 3 in the series] trying on Chase's team's Slam Suit.

This is also the first time we get introduced to William de Houce, AKA Paragon, a marriage guidance counsellor who used mind persuasion powers to turn dysfunctional couples into starry-eyed teenagers.

The final scene was foreshadowing the upcoming story line - anyone in the UK exhibiting mutant powers was being exterminated by men in armoured battle-suits.

As usual  [and like most current superhero movie franchises] Jonathan was trying to cram in too many characters in too short a space, but it's fun to realise that the Paragons were a weekly group of roleplayers and the strip was trying to capture the essence of who they were.  I'm hoping that the 40-60,000 word novels give me more room to do that :-)

Let me know your thoughts.

Get Paragons Of Virtue Superhero Fiction Novel Free

Get Paragons Of Virtue Superhero Fiction Novel Free

My first superhero novel SprawlBall will be free on Kindle for the next 5 days starting Dec 8th 2017.   Get it here and let me know what you think :-)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXVWJ5Z

Paragons Of Virtue Meet NaNoWriMo

It's November 23rd 2017 and the 3rd Paragons of Virtue novel is sitting at 51,000 words.

To be honest I've been working on and off on book 3 since April, but I'm using November as an excuse / justification / motivation to get it done. 

Part of me thinks I cheated, cos I had the outline planned out in October.  That's why forever more October will be known as...

NASTOPLAMO

Take October. Name it “National Story Planning Month.” Whatever you’re going to do in November, you don’t have to go in blind. 

NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month, happens each year during the month of November.  Established in 1999 it encourages participants to begin writing a 50,000 word novel on November 1st to be completed by 11:59 p.m. on November 30th.

And at the moment December shall be called

NAEDYOSHIMO

December then becomes “National Edit Your Shit Month.” Or, if you need a month away from it, maybe you come back to it in January — but the point is, always come back to it.

So keep your eyes peeled for we've got a cool story about a Galactic war, Psychic powers, power and intrigue and the debut of the next paragon to hit the street.

and i do mean "hit"...

Paragons Of Virtue Superhero Novels Original Strip pt2

It's a cold, wet November night and I'm reminiscing again.

See below the second instalment of the Paragons Of Virtue comic strip that first saw daylight all the way back in 1985 in the Superhero UK fanzine.  OMG that's 32 years ago!

First there were the role-playing games, played by a fanatically loyal group of teenagers throughout high school and beyond.  Stranger Things anyone?

Then Jonathan created this comic strip as part of his fanzine.

This actually features the Yakuza Oyabun known as Albatross.  Look out for his upcoming novel where he'll be going under his Japanes name Arubatorosu.  He's also in the "SprawlBall" novel if you haven't read that yet.