Adapting to Change – Our greatest strength, our greatest weakness…
Amongst all animals on our wonderful Earth, we do not rank that highly when it comes to our physical attributes. We are not the fastest species. We are not the strongest. We cannot swim very fast and we cannot fly at all. We enjoy our position of dominance over all species on our planet as our intelligence enables an astonishing level of adaptability. We survive in some of the most inhospitable conditions presented on our planet, in both heat and cold. We are masters of problem solving, adjusting our lifestyle and adapting tools and materials to survive and thrive. [Read more…]
You are not your thoughts…
I recently posted a list things that we tend to identify with being a part of us that actually are not. One line of this post seemed to be the most difficult for people to accept: [Read more…]
Defining humanity through love…
The study of history is necessarily a filter of the past. We could never each learn from the entirety of all human experience as the sheer volume of information would be incomprehensible to our finite, individual intellects. [Read more…]
You are not…
Taking responsibility for your own emotional pain
The world can be a horrible place at times. People can, and do, say harsh, hurtful things that end up causing us emotional pain. What can we do about this? I see two obvious answers. [Read more…]
My novel “Spirits at the Dawn of Day” is finally available!
I am delighted to finally share with you all my novel, Spirits at the Dawn of Day. It has now been in my life for many years and I am so excited to finally be able to share it with you all.
Please click here to go to my book’s page on Amazon.
I sincerely hope you find some value in my words.
Any shares, tweets, likes and reviews of my book will be most appreciated!
Thank you so much for your support.
Sincerely,
Simon
My book is now available in paperback and on Kindle from Amazon! You can download the first 3 chapters to get you started for free by clicking this link.
Update on the progress of my novel, Spirits at the Dawn of Day
I apologise for the lack of updates, I have been making every effort to have my book available for you all in early December. [Read more…]
My cover survey results are in!
Thank you all so much for participating in my cover concept survey! There was a clear winner out of all the designs provided. The results from the hundreds of votes I received are depicted in the chart below.
Help me choose the cover for my upcoming novel!
I would really love your opinion in choosing the design for my book cover! This project has been a long time in development and I am now in the final stages before publication. I am very fortunate to have the help of one of my closest friends, the extremely talented designer Brad Maxwell, in producing a number of beautiful pieces of cover art for my book. I now have the difficult task of making a choice! So I’d really appreciate a moment of your time for you to give your opinion on which direction I should take. Click here to go to my survey to leave your opinion until the 27th of October.
My Year of the Dragon
Dear friends,
I thought I’d post you all a bit of an update of my year thus far and what is to come before I started posting the many almost finished blog posts I have been working on… [Read more…]