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Latest on the sequel

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022FlibbertigibbetLeave a comment

Thank you to all those who have asked about the sequel to They Fell to Earth; it’s great to get the feedback!

I returned to the manuscript over the Bank Holiday weekend after several weeks of inactivity due to being busy with my day job / being a dad.

Suffice to say, it was fun to re-immersed in the world and to continue the adventures of Emily and friends.

She is off on a whole new journey, this time in the eccentric company of Darlan Rew, getting closer to understanding the portal which brought the 331 and Urdun to Earth.

Dee is no longer in a Eurofighter cockpit, and Coburn is doing extremely dangerous things he’d rather not do. Baran Lawt is coming to terms with his Earth-bound exile.

And the Urdun? It’s still out there, enigmatic or possibly sulking.

I’m not giving away any more, but I do hope to publish a taster chapter some time over the summer.

Robin Hood’s Bay

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022FlibbertigibbetLeave a comment

I’ve just returned from a lovely week away with the family in the charming North Yorkshire coastal village of Robin Hood’s Bay.

As a family holiday it was full of beach-combing for fossils, exploring rock pools and hunting for the mythical boggle of Boggley Hole. If you visit that part of the world, try out the Youth Hostel’s excellent cakes.

As a destination for a writer it was also soaked in history, both real and fantastical, as well as the full panoply of weather conditions to stir the imagination.

Plunging waves crashed into centuries-old stone walls, before the tide fled and left vast, rocky shallows and sandbars to explore. It was all made even more engaging by the creepy arrival of what the locals call sea fret; a sea fog which drifted in and turned a sunny morning into a hazy lunchtime.

Robin Hood’s Bay itself is a steep stack of stone cottages tumbling down a steep hill towards a broad, shallow beach. The cottages are piled up one on top of the other, an arrangement which local lore says enabled smugglers to move illicit goods from shore to inland by moving them between houses via interlinked basements, attics, bedrooms and concealed cupboards.

A few ideas landed in my head, some of which may one day make it onto a page!

First post

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022Flibbertigibbet1 Comment

Hi, my name is Gareth M Duggan, and I’m the author of They Fell to Earth, a science-fiction book set more or less in our world and more or less in our time.

You can read more about They Fell to Earth on the home page, and I hope you either enjoyed it enough to be here finding out a bit more about me, or that you will read it in the future. It’s a good yarn.

So, this is my blog, where I will talk a bit about the book, a bit about what I’m writing right now and also the occasional ramble about stuff that I find interesting for some reason.

Thanks for checking in and I hope you enjoy what I do. If you do, please spread the word!

Laters,
Gareth.