Tuesday 25 July 2023

Short Story: Humble Pie

 Hello and welcome to this month’s short story video.


This time around, it is the turn of Humble Pie, a tiny bit of flash fiction





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Take care and keep looking out for what lurks in the shadows…

A.S.Chambers.


Tuesday 18 July 2023

One Minute Writing Workshop: Music

 Hello and welcome to this little one-minute writing workshop.


This month, I want to have a little chat about something that helps me with my writing. Music.





I always have music playing when I’m writing. I find that the background noise really helps get the creative juices going.


What do you like to listen to? Let me know in the comments below.


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A.S.Chambers.


Tuesday 11 July 2023

Spalluccipedia: Lancaster

 Greetings and welcome to this monthly dive into characters, places and themes in the ever-expanding world of my paranormal investigator, Sam Spallucci.


This time around, I want to have a little chat about Lancaster itself.





For those of you who aren’t familiar with my city of residence, Lancaster is a small city in the Northwest of England, situated in the heart of Morecambe Bay. The earliest known settlement here was Roman and I came here to study back in 1990. 


I never left.


It is a glorious little city with wonderful views of Morecambe Bay and the Lake District. Containing two universities, it is a cultural hub and well worth a visit for those in the area.


Lancaster has a marvellous history and I draw on this quite a bit when dealing with Sam. 


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A.S.Chambers.


Tuesday 4 July 2023

A.S.Chambers Monthly Roundup - July 2023

 Greetings one and all!

It’s the first week of July and the summer seems to be getting busier and busier for Yours Truly!


Well, first, Lux Æterna is now in the final editing phase. It has two more run-throughs (one listening; one reading) until I can start dropping extracts for the Seraph members of my book club. It has been an absolute beast to write as I’ve had to make sure that lots of threads have been tied off whilst making sure that it fits in sequence with events bubbling away in Fallen Angel (more on that one in a minute or so…)


Also in the pipeline is Child of Light. This novella will be released alongside Lux Æterna and will fill in some backstory for both Alec and Lucifer. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing both of these and I know that you will devour them both when they are published in October. 


So, I mentioned Fallen Angel. As many of you will know, this is sort of the book that kicked everything off. I first wrote it back in my mid-teens and it bubbled around for a number of years until I finalised what I wanted it to look like back in about 2009. However, I never published it because I felt it was the middle of a story rather than the beginning. There were characters in there that I knew a lot about but the readers wouldn’t. So, I shelved it and set off writing Sam’s adventures and building the Spallucciverse where FA would sit like a spider spinning a web of plots and characters around it. 


This summer, once Lux Æterna is finished, I will be revisiting my FA manuscript and will start the job of bringing it up to speed so that it matches all the books (28 of them…) that I’ve written since. It’s going to be a mammoth undertaking, but I am sitting here rubbing my hands with glee. I, unlike many authors, relish the art of editing. Give me a manuscript and I am a pig in the proverbial finding mistakes and polishing rough diamonds. Things which need to be included are the likes of the Potency in her weirdling shape. She wasn’t even a glimmer in my creative eye back in 2009 and now she is a major player in the Spallucciverse, along with her mother, the Abyss, who did not possess her interactive form back then either. Alongside this, motivations for certain characters have changed and evolved, so I need to go back and make sure that everything just fits. 


It’s going to be a blast.


Alongside this, I’ll be preparing for Stockport comic con on the 30th of July. There’s a link for the details over at www.aschambers.co.uk. Pop over and have a look. It would be great to see you there.


Anyway, that’s all for now.

Have a great one!

ASC.



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Thursday 29 June 2023

Short Story - My Divergent Lands

 Hello and welcome to this month’s short story video.


This time around, it is the turn of My Divergent Lands, one of the stories from 2016’s anthology Let All Mortal Flesh (links for which you can find at www.aschambers.co.uk).





This is one of the many shorts I’ve written that tie in with the stories of Sam Spallucci. 


However, this one is a bit different…


What we have here is the shadowy Black Dragon Kanor looking out over the Divergent Lands and revelling in his obliteration of the human race. For once we get to see the world from this devastator of humanity.


I hope you enjoy it. Please leave your thoughts below.


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Take care and keep looking out for what lurks in the shadows…

A.S.Chambers.


Thursday 22 June 2023

One Minute Writing Workshop: Filing

 Hello and welcome to this little one-minute writing workshop.


This month, I want to have a little chat about something that is crucial in keeping your work organised. Filing! 





As creative types, it can be very tempting for us to scratch things out in a book or on a random bit of paper, but this can be a nightmare when it comes to trying to find that amazing idea we had six months ago. 


It is crucial to keep a good filing system, both a paper one and a digital one. It just makes the whole creative process so much easier. We don’t have to keep worrying about things that we inadvertently lose.


So, if you haven’t already done so, go through your bits of paper and random files on your computer and get them nicely ordered.


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Take care and keep looking out for what lurks in the shadows…

A.S.Chambers.


Tuesday 13 June 2023

Spalluccipedia: Dalton Square

 Greetings and welcome to this monthly dive into characters, places and themes in the ever-expanding world of my paranormal investigator, Sam Spallucci.


This time around, I want to have a little chat about a location: Dalton Square in Lancaster.





Dalton Square is the location that I use the most in my Sam Spallucci books, mainly because that’s where his base of operations is located. He has an office and a flat above the Chinese restaurant there, the Paradise Dragon. Both of them he has rent-free because of the supernatural pickles he got the proprietor out of. 


In real life, there is indeed a Chinese restaurant in the square. I frequent the Fortune Star quite a lot myself. It is well worth a visit. As is the Borough, the pub which I use as Sam’s drinking hole. 


Historically, Dalton Square as it is now was developed in the late Victorian era with the Town Hall and the statue of Victoria herself following after the monarch’s death. It is named after the Dalton family who lived out at Thurnam Hall to the southwest of Lancaster. In fact, many of the streets around the square are named after members of the Dalton family, who were one of the richest families in the area.


I hope you enjoy the little accompanying video about. Please leave your thoughts and comments below.


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Take care and keep looking out for what lurks in the shadows…

A.S.Chambers.