Tim Hayes

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I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
Tim Hayes1h ago

How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List isn’t the first book I’ve self-published on Amazon. When I retired from being an aquarium writer writing around about nine years ago I published a non-fiction book under the name T M Hayes entitled AQUATICAL•LATIN which examined the etymology (the meaning) of the scientific names of around 950 species of the most common tropical marine fishes in the aquarium hobby. You can find this title at: https://linkly.link/2ZykB UK and https://linkly.link/2ZylE US.
AQUATICAL•LATIN received a 5 star review on Amazon. I laughingly refer to it as the book which established a new category of non-fiction books, unpopular science.

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Tim Hayes1d ago

I mentioned in my response to #WritersCoffeeClub 31/3: What are we celebrating regarding your writing this month? about editing the novel I’ve just finished writing and how I’m currently hunting down and killing those pesky typos. Sneaky little creatures if you ask me, hiding in plain sight trying to ruin my carefully crafted prose. On thing I can tell you for sure is when my first beta reader starts reporting back to me on the typos they’ve spotted as soon as I go to correct the I can guarantee I’ll notice a few more in close proximity which neither of us have previously seen.

It strikes me that typos and Fnords have a lot in common. "Fnord" is a word which entered into popular culture after appearing in The Illuminatus! Trilogy written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Here, the interjection "fnord" is given hypnotic power over the unenlightened, and every appearance of the word subconsciously generates a feeling of unease and confusion which prevents rational consideration of the text in which it appears. Maybe the two are related…

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