As of the end of this month, I am officially retired from my career as a diplomat! It feels good. I'm happy I did all I did over all these years (I began in 1993), but I'm ready to move on and ...
Many years ago I wrote a novelette called Dragon Play that was published in the anthology called The Dragon Chronicles. I decided to publish it as a stand-alone, and since it is new and has no ...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2023/02/newly-released-novelette-free.html
At the end of each year I do a summary post of what I read throughout the year. I find it interesting to see my reading habits, and to make note of what the best books were each year. I read on...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-i-read-in-2022.html
It is finally Release Day for my latest novel, which is a prequel to The Shard, the first novel I ever wrote. Both stories are written to be able to stand alone, though they also mesh well w...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/10/release-day-shattered-spire.html
I don't write about my job much, mainly because I prefer to concentrate on my writing. But my career as a diplomat is soon coming to a close, as I intend to retire after one more year, thus all...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/10/summer-move-to-luxembourg.html
Since my previous post rating the top songs by Porcupine Tree (which I posted because I'm about to see their concert in Amsterdam) did not include any of their latest album Closure/Continuatio...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/10/closurecontinuation-by-porcupine-tree.html
It's often said that Porcupine Tree is the greatest unknown band, and there really is some truth to that. They are no one-hit wonder. They're a band with numerous five-star and four-star qualit...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/09/top-20-songs-by-porcupine-tree.html
I find this silly, especially as it means having to provide information I'd usually prefer not to put out in public, but according to iTunes, European law is requiring authors to provide the be...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/09/itunes-legal-info.html
I began discussing the different POV characters of my new novel (coming out October 20) in my last post . The second character I'd like to introduce is Sir Villem Tathis. He is a 15-year-old f...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-shattered-spire-villem.html
With my new book, The Shattered Spire, coming out October 20, I thought I'd provide a bit of detail about each of the POV characters from the novel. I'll start with the youngest member of the r...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-shattered-spire-imric.html
It has been a long time since I have posted. Life has been busy. I finished up my posting to Rome and have now just arrived in Luxembourg. It seems very nice so far. I'm super proud of both...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2022/08/new-book-release-shattered-spire.html
At the end of each year I do a summary post of what I read throughout the year. I find it interesting to see my reading habits, and to make note of what the best books were each year. I managed 4...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2021/12/what-i-read-in-2021.html
As everyone knows, I have the best taste in music in the world. And of course I've listened to every single album that has come out since the year 2000. No sarcasm at all there :) Okay, so it...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2021/11/top-25-albums-of-2000s.html
The audiobook for my sci-fi technothriller The Immortality game went live today! It's the bestselling of my books, so I hope it will do well. I have free promo codes for US or UK Audible...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2021/11/audiobook-out-today.html
That phrase, 'might as well be', isn't used all that often, but it always seemed a little odd to me. Sometime during my younger teen years, that phrase struck me funny and I turned it into the ...
I rarely notice any change to my style of writing, but recently I've noticed that I have changed the way I approach dialogue and thoughts due to having listened to my novels that were made into...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2021/04/have-audiobooks-changed-way-you-write.html
I published my last novel in 2015. So it has already been nearly six years since I last released a new story, which puts me in the company of writers like Patrick Rothfuss and George R.R. Mar...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2021/04/writing-two-books-at-once.html
At the end of each year I do a summary post of what I read throughout the year. I find it interesting to see my reading habits, and to make note of what the best books were each year. I managed...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-i-read-in-2020.html
I'm been struggling so much with writing over the past few years. I'm not a fast writer in any case--my first two novels took me four years each to complete. But it has been nearly seven year...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2020/10/sample-from-my-work-in-progress.html
My very first audiobook was released in Audible yesterday. It is narrated by the talented Rosa B. Watkinson. It's a whole new realm of learning for me, trying to figure out how to be successful i...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2020/05/audiobook-release-for-epic-fantasy-shard.html
I don't write that much on this blog anymore, mostly because I use Facebook for the bulk of my thoughts these days, but every so often it's good to put something up here if for no other reason th...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2020/03/pandemic-diary-rome.html
I only have one review in Amazon France, and it's a bad one. Two stars. That's fine; it's what that person felt when they read the book, and I appreciate that they read it. I just don't like one ...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2020/01/russian-names-in-immortality-game.html
At the end of each year I do a summary post of what I read throughout the year. I find it interesting to see my reading habits, and to make note of what the best books were each year. I managed o...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2019/12/what-i-read-in-2019.html
My first two novels were written with multiple point-of-view (POV) characters, and it never occurred to me to do otherwise. It just felt natural. I have seen a few readers complain about not liki...
http://tedacross.blogspot.com/2019/11/writing-single-point-of-view.html
A recent review on Goodreads of my novel The Immortality Game made a similar point of several other reviews, so it made me start thinking about the romantic aspects within that story. I set out t...