This blog has been rather neglected for one reason and another, with nowhere near as many posts as it had the its early days. It's more than time for an update, and the big news must be either of two headlines. Let's start with my brand new dedicated author website!
Check out The Worlds of Mike Adamson for the most comprehensive overview of my writing you'll find anywhere. Here are pages dedicated to my work by genre, with listings of completed works and their publication histories, plus new essays. Also links to my my nonfiction work, journalistic pieces, book reviews (the ones here on the blog), interviews and such—there are more of them out there than I thought, and quite impressive when brought together. Purchase links are provided for all published works throughout, along with the covers of publications containing those stories—there are lots!
The site was built by my sister Jen Downes, who writes html like plain English. She is also an artist—the site is richly illustrated with science fiction, fantasy and horror artwork, generated in Photoshop and 3D/CGI software. Jen is also a dab-hand at prompting an AI to generate something usable too. This latter technique was used to generate substitute images within the site format to stand in for those online publications for which there are essentially no cover illustrations to present as links to the material.
There are dozens of free reads out there—places where my stories appear in online archives and may be read without a paywall. These are gathered together in a coordinated link-list, with new artwork and teasers, for ease of access.
The site has already been updated once, with extra material on the miscellany page—interviews, commercial author pages and such.
I could not be happier with the site, nor more grateful to Jen for bringing it together. There'll be rolling updates, so check back from time to time for what's new!
In other news—my second single-author volume with Belanger Books is officially go! The title has not yet been finalised, and the publishers have asked me to play things close to the chest for the moment, but there'll definitely be an exciting new Sherlock Holmes volume from me in 2024!
Next post coming shortly—a new review of an old book!
Cheers,
Mike Adamson
