CLOSED 500 Follower Giveaway Spectacular Day 6

It's time for Day 6 of the 500 Follower Giveaway Spectacular!

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Todays giveaway is brought to you by James Hutchings.

He's promoting his ebook he just released on Amazon.

Let's get to know him a little bit more.

Tell me a little bit about you and your life:
Other than writing, my main hobby is coding online games. I spent several years writing an online game called Age of Fable (www.ageoffable.net). I don't have any plans to do more on it, but it's still online, and you can play it for free. I'm currently working on an online 'card' game, like Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon. I've also done a few smaller projects. For example I did an online version of the computer game Oregon Trail.

Why did you start writing this?

A couple of years ago I created a fantasy city called Teleleli or Telelee as a background for a game. Once I finished I realised there wasn't any demand for it. My ex suggested I write stories instead, and that's how I got started.

What is your favorite thing about it?

I actually think my poems are better than my stories, but most reviewers seem to like the stories better.

Where would you like to take this hobby/career?

I'd like to get to a point where I can live off my writing, though I'm far from that now. There are thousands of self-published authors out there, and of course they're all trying to get their book noticed. However I've gotten a lot of good feedback from the reviews I've had so far. I'm looking at writing a novel, rather than short stories and poems as I've been doing.

Anything else interesting about it?

I think that when you say 'fantasy', most people get a specific picture; huge books, probably a series of huge of books, set in an imaginary, medieval-like world (with maps of the world), in which a humble hero gets caught up in a battle for the fate of that world...all very much based on the template set down by Lord of the Rings, perhaps as interpreted by games like Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft. I like Tolkien, but he's overshadowed a lot of other ways of writing fantasy which I think are just as interesting, and which have influenced 'The New Death and others.'

What is he giving away?

A copy of his new ebook book filled with short stories and poems.

The New Death and others.

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