All posts by Geoff Davis
New novel OVERBOARD from Story Software writer Ivy Ngeow
Overboard is the latest literary thriller from Ivy Ngeow, on the new imprint Leopard Print Publishing.

For the trailer video and links to buy, please visit Ivy Ngeow’s site http://writengeow.com
The buy links are here:
New author website from the designer of creativity app
Hi all
Geoff Davis (creator of this site’s app) has a new author website (at last). Please visit
New site at Micro Arts Group for computer generated art 2019
We have a new site with many examples of generational art and story software. This was an art forum in the 1980s for artists. There was also a print magazine with many articles which is available for free there. Why not check it out now?
Please visit Micro Arts Group now


Heart of Glass – Ivy Ngeow – NSB Writer has a novel out
Ivy Ngeow has written some of the How to Write material we use on here and the Top Writing Courses site. She won the Proverse (Hong Kong) international prize for her first novel Cry of the Flying Rhino, and her new novel Heart of Glass is out in a week! Very exciting. See her video trailer for this book here:
Video Trailer for Heart of Glass by Ivy Ngeow (Unbound 2018)
Iain M Banks on Tor and the Culture
The Tor site from Macmillan is full of interesting articles (for geeks). They have a lot on Iain M Banks, currently a new series on The Culture, his socialist (ish) future civilization.
Here’s a link to an article on Consider Phlebas >
I first read his SF when I found a copy of Use of Weapons in a newsagent remaindered books bin. A good one to start with. I also discovered Adam Roberts in a remainder bookshop, with Land of the Headless.
Never know what you might find!
SF films by auteurs

What do these films have in common?
Valerian and City of a Thousand Planets, Sucker Punch, Jupiter Ascending, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Chappie.
“I’m glad these crazy, audacious, personal projects exist because they make the often boring and predictable world of popcorn entertainment crazier and more interesting.
Yet I also very much intend to never see any of these movies ever again. Sober, at least.”
Botz Robots
Once the book is finished I’ll update with images from the book, downloads of extracts etc.
Everyone who has subscribed will get a free peek before official release, I’ll do a mail out about that in the next weeks.
Botz app
We have added a Botz version of our app. This has a file for robots information and is available here also. If you have the app already, just download the file below.
Use your current email or a new one. Free.
If you don’t have the app yet, go to Botz Tech website
Poetry competition win prizes 2017
You can also add images and create text art rather than poems.
Fish Publishing are having a competition, with the best 10 poems published, the first prize is €1,000, second prize is a week in residence at Anam Cara Writers’ Retreat.
The judge is Jo Shapcott. The top ten poems will be in the 2017 Fish Anthology.
For more details see Fish Poetry Competition 2017 >
For our writing advice and course visit Top Writing Courses now >