Pen Name - Author of The Inspector Stone Mysteries & other books
England
Joined September 2016
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Hi, I'm Alex R Carver, a multi-genre author with more ideas than time to work on them.
I love films, books, and animals.
You can find my books at all major ebook retailers and in paperback
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Into The Fire: Inspector Stone Mysteries #4
How a man who has been dead for nine months can be connected to a body that is only days old. Is it a coincidence, or is there something more going on?
4.5* from 169 ratings on Amazon
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A Perfect Pose: Inspector Stone Mysteries #3
Three months after losing his family in a deadly blaze the discovery of a teenage girl's body on the riverbank draws Nathan Stone back to work and into a complicated case.
books2read.com/APerfectPose
Into The Fire: Inspector Stone Mysteries #4
How a man who has been dead for nine months can be connected to a body that is only days old. Is it a coincidence, or is there something more going on?
4.5* from 169 ratings on Amazon
books2read.com/IntoFire
I'm watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes and I'm really struggling to understand how the apes are supposed to take over.
Their intelligence might be enhanced, and they might be stronger individually than humans, but a few hundred intelligent apes is never going to overcome
a literal army armed with assault weapons, tanks, aircraft etc.
The fact that the L113 or whatever it was called kills humans wouldn't help the apes either because that few hundred apes would be dead before enough humans died to balance things out.
Each ape could kill 1m
Wow I was sensible, I checked the price of a dressing gown and warm socks on Amazon and then went out to check local shops.
Saved myself £20.
I seem to have impulse buying under control recently
Just realised that when I wrote the 2nd half of Inspector Stone 8 that I forgot he's injured and got his left hand bandaged up.
Thank goodness I'm still at the stage of drafting and rewriting. It would have been so embarrassing to send it to my beta readers as is
Just thinking about how my befriender completely validated my feelings about a past relationship by saying that it was indeed coercive and controlling, and I hadn't even gone into much detail about the relationship.
Now if only I could stop thinking about my ex. This is not a
Just finished watching Seaside Hotel on channel 4. It's a delightful Danish show about the guests and staff spending summer at a beach hotel between 1928 and 1946.
It's generally a gentle show but it covers some great topics and has great characters.
Finally had some slightly good news
I've been told I don't have to leave my emergency accommodation on Monday unless the supported accommodation is sorted.
An extension has been arranged. I am now not in immediate danger of being made homeless
Had a lovely visit with a friend, we visited the cathedral, had a coffee in the cafe, walked along the river, had lunch. Now it's time for me to rest and recuperate.
This, in part, explains why I need to go into supported accommodation to work on some aspects of life
Today I learned a term called 'Delayed Selfhood': When a child lives in a high-stress survival mode, their brain prioritizes the amygdala (the fear center) over the prefrontal cortex (the social and emotional learning center). When that person finally reaches a safe place in adulthood( financially or physically ), the "freeze" thaws, and they suddenly have to learn things like social cues or how to trust that others learned at age five.. 1//3
