In the wind-blasted landscape of Arizona, people are taking shelter in the Cthulhu Mythos

British Sci-Fi & Dark Fantasy Author David J Rodger is evolving H.P.Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos through his novels and roleplaying game. I received a google alert about my RPG Yellow Dawn- The Age of Hastur and associated novel Dog Eat Dog getting a mention.  I checked out the link and was super-pleased by what I found. [...]

Cover of Dog Eat Dog, a sci-fi and dark fantasy novel set in the post-apocalyptic world of Yellow Dawn gets used in a French textbook

Quite flattering to get approached by the French publisher Didier, who are planning to release an English language textbook called “Password Terminale” in April 2012.   They’re going to reproduce the cover of my novel Dog Eat Dog in a chapter entitled “Tech-less world”.  The novel is a political crime thriller (science-fiction and dark fantasy) [...]

Electro Origins: M.E. by Gary Numan, music for a post-apocalyptic generation

Electro Origins: M.E. by Gary Numan, music for a post-apocalyptic generation This track came onto my MP3 player via random yesterday. I’d just parked up in a lonely and remote car port on the edge of this ancient Roman spa town, Bath – a cold morning with mist hanging in the air like veils of [...]

Zombie infection caught on camera – sci-fi & dark fantasy author David J Rodger filmed after zed pathogen takes hold

Sci-fi and dark fantasy author David J Rodger, and creator of post-apocalyptic Cthulhu Mythos role-playing game “Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur“, was involved in a live webcast talking about his recent journey into the Dead Zone surrounding New Tokyo, when disaster struck. The small cut he’d received whilst scrambling in wild panic into [...]

Dead Island Trailer (cert 18) – zombie survival video game – trailer has cool cinematic storyboard

A new trailer for zombie survival video game, Dead Island. Developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. It is an open-ended game, centered on the challenge of survival on a zombie-infested island. The game uses a first-person perspective with RPG elements. However, the developers are claiming that the game will be far beyond a [...]

Zombies of Hastur in a Cthulhu Mythos post-apocalypse

Zombies of Hastur in a Cthulhu Mythos post-apocalypse: short trailer video for Dog Eat Dog, science fiction & dark fantasy by David J Rodger More David J Rodger? God Seed ¦ Dante’s Fool ¦ Iron Man Project ¦ Edge ¦ Yellow Dawn RPG

Echoes of New York, goodbye 2010, hello Hayling Island, Orbis Tertius

¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ 17:29 GMT, Friday 7th Jan 2011.  Buzzing on coffee and reeling a little in the heady swirl of everything that seems to be happening at once.  A month ago I was in New York City… out at the Ear bar on Spring Street for an evening rendezvous [...]

Letters: Dog Eat Dog feedback – the end of the book and launchpad for what’s next

This is an email exchange with a compatriot in New York whose opinions I rely upon and trust.  He’s talking about reaching the end of Dog Eat Dog and this becomes a brief discussion about what’s next in regards to a sequel.    I’ve XXX out potential spoilers. >From: xxxxxx@hotmail.com >To: clovenfeet@hotmail.com >Subject: RE: … [...]

New York New York: infection, feedback and new ideas

¦ dialling in from workstation ¦ Wednesday Dec 15th, 2010, @ 13:06 GMT.  My head is swirling. A combination of man-flu, lingering grasp of jetlag and a sense that my world is evolving… shuddering free of long held foundations.  Sunday saw me return from a week in New York.  A place I’ve known through various [...]

Initial Reviews & Feedback: Science Fiction Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic Horror novel – Dog Eat Dog

¦ Dialling in from Roman Spa Town, South West England ¦ 26th November, 2010 So it’s approaching the first month of Dog Eat Dog being “out there”, and I’ve started to pick up feedback from people who’ve managed to blaze through it and I’m a little blown away by the intense enthusiasm the book is [...]

New Fiction: Dog Eat Dog – my first copy arrived today – whoo hooo *beams a smile*

The postie just came to my desk and delivered a package 9 inches by 6 inches.  I ripped it open.  Contains the first copy of Dog Eat Dog. Looks great.  Lovely to flick through the pages.  See my work in my hands.  From digital to physical reality.  Also a significant moment considering the trauma of [...]

New Release: Dog Eat Dog is born. Science fiction & fantasy thriller with zombies and a Cthulhu Mythos sting in the tail

¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ 07:37 GMT, Thursday 4th November. Sat at my desk, a churning mix of blue sky and ragged dark clouds are throwing stormy light in through the glass canopy behind me.  Life support is blowing warm air across my bare legs; I’m wrapped in the woolly embrace of [...]

Close to the edit (end of) – Dog Eat Dog – up to Ch 46

Only three more to go and I’m done. Well, just the small issue of not having a jacket design finished yet *peers over at Vega$* but hopefully that should come together this weekend.  This book’s a big deal for me. Covers a very intense personal period and is the first to occur in the world [...]

Dog Eat Dog, review and edit phase continues, up to Chapter 37 (of 49)

Yay, back into the groove and pushing through the typos and structural fixes.  I know it’s my book, so I’m bound to be bias, but I’m really loving reading it and getting to spend time with the characters again. Old friends, soon to be set on their journey.  You can read a sample of Dog [...]

Apprehension looming

¦ dialling in from workstation ¦ 08:17 GMT, Monday 2nd August.  Tis a beautiful early morning here in Bath.  The sun has an almost autumnal hue to it today; the hazy pale yellow.  It reminds me how much I love the shifting of the seasons.  I’m already looking forward to cold bright sunny days, clean [...]

Dog Eat Dog, review and edit, now up to Chapter 24

Only 25 more to go now.  Should be ready to launch in September. :o)

Living in Flames, finished chapter 17. Dog Eat Dog review and edit continues.

Just finished Chapter 17 for Living in Flames, reached 27,000 words. Word count is coming in around half of what Dog Eat Dog was… tighter writing, quicker scenes, and I just want it finished.  I’m feeling a lot more relaxed now that I’ve finished re-mapping out the plot. I have a structure that’s been challenged [...]

Dog Eat Dog, review and edit phase, partway through ch21 (of 49)

Getting there!

Got to stop and looking around once and a while

So I’m doing my best to put the brakes on. Rather than diving out of bed when I woke, driving into town to kick start my brain with a coffee and pain-au-chocolat, I had a lie-in. Bloody lovely, although I can feel the monster-slave-driver in my mind seething and resenting the fact I’m not writing. [...]

Dog Eat Dog Review and Edit, and start a new novel Living In Flames

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ 18:30 GMT, Saturday 17th July 2010.  Sunlight flooding the room through the glass canopy behind me.  High winds ruffle the house.  The sky alternates from bright blue to moody grey in swift changes.  I’m listening to the album “Count Three & Pray” by Berlin. My brain hurts. I’m [...]