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Raleigh


I have no idea what I'm doing.

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  • 15 weeks
    The Blueblood Papers: Old Blood

    With Christmas and New Year over with, we have but a long and bleak January to endure before the dawn of Spring. To make the wait a little bearable, I hope you'll enjoy the first chapter of the new Blueblood story available here:

    TThe Blueblood Papers: Old Blood
    While on leave, Blueblood meets his hero, A. K. Yearling, and is dragged into a Daring Do story he would much rather have read.
    Raleigh · 30k words  ·  146  1 · 1.1k views

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  • 22 weeks
    Bound by Blood Retrospective

    With another Blueblood Papers story completed comes another retrospective. I'd like to start by stating that I think Royal Blood, the one that came before it, is the best story that I've written in this series, and after finishing Bound By Blood and looking back on this latest story, I still think that. That's not to say that I'm unhappy with how Bound By Blood came out, of course, but

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    8 comments · 296 views
  • 57 weeks
    A Map and Some Lore

    Maps are great. As a kid I used to spend hours pouring over my parents' atlas, even though it was a little out of date and still had the Soviet Union on it. It was, however, the 1990s, and the collapse of the USSR had only been a few years ago, so I suppose they could be forgiven for that.

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  • 80 weeks
    Ten Years of The Blueblood Papers and AMA

    Well, not quite. As it happened, I've missed the exact date by a few days, as Blueblood: Hero of Equestria was published on the 8th of October 2012, but we'll quietly ignore that from now on.

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    21 comments · 470 views
  • 116 weeks
    The Blueblood Papers: Bound By Blood

    After a nice Christmas and a New Year, I am back with with sequel to Royal Blood.

    TThe Blueblood Papers: Bound By Blood
    Blueblood's captors said, "For you, the war is over." How wrong they were.
    Raleigh · 180k words  ·  299  4 · 2.9k views

    And yes, I know I said I'd call it 'Captive Blood' earlier, but 'Bound By Blood' has extra alliterative appeal. I do hope you enjoy it. The usual monthly updates will proceed as normal from here on (hopefully).

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Next Chapter Update Status and Equestria Daily · 7:13pm Mar 13th, 2014

Don't worry all, the next chapter is currently being proof-read and will be uploaded at my earliest convenience after I get it back purged of all errors, which will hopefully be soon. Things have been rather hectic at my end as I've just changed jobs, but as the new office is much closer to my home and the hours are slightly different I have an extra hour or so in the week day to get some writing done.

In another news, a few months ago I had submitted my story to Equestria Daily, mainly out of vague curiosity to see if it would be accepted, and I finally got a response. I was mindful of all of the horror stories being spread about EQD proof readers being rude, judgemental, and generally quite unpleasant, but I am thankful that it was not the case with my submission. Oh, I was still rejected, first strike out of three, but at least he provided some decent critique, and I can take solace that the problems were more technical in nature such as grammar and formatting rather than any deep structural issues with my story-telling such as characterisation or just being plain terrible. I think after I finish the next instalment I might go back and tinker with the previous chapters and try submitting again.

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Comments ( 1 )

Awesome, I can't wait! :heart:

Good luck with EqD, if they end up rejecting it again, it's definitely their loss. Blueblood is my favorite character, and your's is my favorite characterization of him (with perhaps the exception of The Best Night Ever)

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