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Four cyborg exhibits from the Science Museum

You don’t scare me

When the TV series Dr Who first screened in the early 1960s, the props departments didn’t have the tools to make convincing monsters. This Dalek

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The three books from the Rockstar Ending series garnished for Xmas

Seasonal chillers

It is almost three years since I took my first tentative steps to becoming a published author of near-future fiction. I’m still learning a lot.

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Rockstar Ending books, champagne, chips, pen

Share the book club buzz

October has already delivered another fun first in my author career. A local book club had read Rockstar Ending, the first novel in my dystopian

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Radio roundup

Appearing on numerous BBC radio stations over the past month seemed the most pandemic-friendly way to get the word out about the launch of Rockaway, the second book

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road sign saying ignorance

Which media do you trust?

What is your go-to source for news and information? The mainstream media is subject to criticism, some of it justified. However, highly trained investigative reporters

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Rockaway and nal polish in matching reds and blues

Goody goody

I’ve subliminally programmed myself to buy nail polish in colours that match the Rockaway book cover. I didn’t realise until they arrived. This reminded me

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Rockaway cover

Rockaway is out

The third book in my dystopian the Rockstar Ending series, Rockaway is published at last! Huge thanks are due to the friends who have kept

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xmasbooks

Signed books for Christmas

Here’s a thought-provoking  present for the reader in your life.  Highly original, macabre and very funny – Richard Blair Speculative fiction at its best, thrilling

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N A Rossi jumping

I’m Jumping for Joy!

Do you think they might ban me? I just celebrated seeing the cover design for ‘Rockaway’, the third novel in my chillingly plausible dystopian series,

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N A Rossi unboxing Rock On

The thrill of unboxing

Even though I have been a published author for almost 18 months now, opening that box of paperbacks with my name on the cover is

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Canary Wharf from South London

Inspired by this London skyscape

Where a maze of derelict warehouses and old cranes once testified to Britain’s decline, glass skyscrapers teeming with traders now dominate London’s docks, a metaphor

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Drone Display

Dancing with Drones

Everyone wanted to talk about the drones. It was the last thing I had expected. Four years ago, I did some research on the Nepal Earthquake of

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N A Rossi holidng Rockstar Ending

My momentous 2020

THANK YOU for making my 2020 momentous – in a nice way! 🤩📖 🙏 Two years ago, I was working in a demanding corporate job, harbouring

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Ursula K Le Guin

Revisiting Ursula K Le Guin

I have just put a couple of books from this legendary author on my Christmas list. I was completely absorbed by her children’s Earthsea trilogy

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