Books of Loukas – dilemmas on background material

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When I started the sketches that would eventually coalesce as The Books Of Loukas 5 years ago, I had no idea what I was going to have to actually do, in terms of detail work. Along the way, apart from inventing 20 or so characters, I realized that I needed to invent an entire town, geographical area and other aspects of an imaginary world. This is not like Tolkien, who invented not only a complete […]

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Busy working on the Update List for Book 1 of Books of Loukas

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When I completed the first draft of Books of Loukas in the Spring of 2018, I naively thought that it would be a mere matter of months before I would have a final draft ready for professional editing, and I could move on to marketing stuff like covers and suchlike. Hah. Yeah right. The first epiphany was my understanding that the first draft, as Terry Pratchett observed, is merely you telling yourself the story. That

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The World of Boobs – the BSH system

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At some point, in my past, when I found myself living with a wife who was, shall we say, highly scenic, I began to muse on the way in which I could measure the size of female breasts. There is the infamous (and, sometimes, highly misleading) system of bra cup sizes, which has gone through several iterations. The inability of the wider world to cope with the reality that some women have large scenery was

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