I Write Like...

Well, not me, apparently.

I went to this website and entered the text of my latest Pax Britannia novel Blood Royal and was told that...

I write like
Mario Puzo

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

However, when I entered the text of Night of the Necromancer, I received this response...

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

When I entered the text of my most recent non-fiction book Scottish Miscellany, I got this...

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

... again, but my short story White Rabbit (which appears in Blood Royal) produced this...

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Now how cool is that?

Bizarrely, the text for my next Black Library Warhammer 40K short story resulted in this...

I write like
P. G. Wodehouse

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Who'd've thought it?

The less said about my last published 40K short The Relic, the better...

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Alice in Wonderland

Like many people, I suspect, I felt that I knew the story of Alice in Wonderland even though I had never actually read Lewis Carroll's children's classic. And because of that I decided I wanted to write a story that drew heavily from both Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass. But first of all I decided that I had to read the originals before putting pen to paper myself (or rather fingers to keyboard).


Anyway, the upshot of all this is that today I started work on White Rabbit, a short story that's due to be printed in the back of Pax Britannia: Blood Royal. Now Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is due on 5 March 2010 and Blood Royal won't be published until April 2010, so it will be interesting to see how the two compare.


But just to get your senses in a state of surreal excitement, in preparation for next Spring, here's the trailer for the movie.