“What a brilliant book! Rule 13: Read this book. It can only help you write better genre stories. What's to lose?" …Vanessa Gebbie, award-wining author and editor of Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story

Do you write genre fiction? Or love reading it? This bestselling book (No.#1 on Amazon's writing reference books bestseller chart) reveals the 12 rules that writers of science fiction, fantasy, crime and horror must never break when building believable imaginary worlds for their readers. 

Can you spot the writers in love with their ‘trappings’ (showing off their research), ever been let down by an author ‘cheating’ or ‘jumping the shark’, are you in danger of losing the (credible) plot? The 12 Rules also covers gadgets vs. characters, plausible villains, unspeakable names, language and more.


If you are writing genre fiction, The 12 Rules keep your readers reading. As a reader, armed with this guide, have some fun spotting any rule transgressions in your next book. 
 
The 12 Rules is only available on Amazon (including Amazon.com if you are in the US) in a Kindle ebook format.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DMPMJ2V

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DMPMJ2V

Revised July 2016 to include new werewolf sightings...
Here's a new – and unusual – travel guide to that part of East Yorkshire known as the Yorkshire Wolds, a guide that pulls together the secrets of the Wold Newton Triangle – where fact is even weirder than fiction.

A travel guide to Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds: The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle by Charles Christian is available only Amazon Kindle as an ebook.

Meet, amongst other oddities, werewolves, zombies, vampires, green skinned fairy folk, headless ghosts, screaming skulls, ancient warlords, miracle-working priests, very eccentric gentry, England’s oldest buildings, disappearing rivers, a good Queen and an avaricious Queen, a black skeleton, a Parkin-eating dragon, sea serpents, shape shifters, enchanted wells, giant monoliths and a grid of ley lines, as well as a surprising amounts of Quite Interesting Facts. 

There is even Lawrence of Arabia in there and, for enthusiasts of American naval history, Captain John Paul Jones. And for sci-fi & fantasy fans, you'll also find the inspiration for some of Philip José Farmer's books.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DKCKCPT/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DKCKCPT/

Charles Christian is one of 12 guest authors included in this 3rd anniversary just published by Ancient Origins. Christian's chapter looks at the history and legends surrounding St Edmund, the Saxon king and martyr who later became England's first patron saint. But did this saintly monarch also return from the dead to slay a Viking chieftain? The book is free to readers of the Ancient Origins website and app although you do need to register. Full details HERE