Ray Daley was born in Coventry & still lives there. He served 6 yrs in the RAF as a clerk & spent most of his time in a Hobbit hole in High Wycombe. He is a published poet & has been writing stories since he was 10. His current dream is to eventually finish the Hitch Hikers fanfic novel he's been writing since 1986.

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Thomas Eggenberger
Latest book: Tendon from Bone - Part 3. Published on January 8, 2012.

• Bucketheads on May 12, 2011
  
  Kinda odd but in a good way, your initial description of the robots makes them sound like The Iron Man (by Ted Hughes). It peters out at the end like you ran out of ideas, I would have liked it to have been longer. Good read though.
  
• Surviving the Fog on May 12, 2011
  
  This is a right cracking read, well paced, good characters. Deep in the right places and very well written indeed. I'm certainly up for more of the same!
  
• The Last Marathon on May 24, 2011
  
  You may have run all those marathons but you still haven't learned how to leave a line space after a paragraph. Makes it VERY difficult to read.
  
• Marooned on July 18, 2011
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  before publishing this you might want to learn how to add linespaces between paragraphs. in its current state its an unreadable clusterfuck of an ebook. and thats being polite. fix it.
  
• EarthStar: A Steampunk Space Opera - Prelude on July 20, 2011
  
  The story itself is good enough but its spoiled by the fact the author never took the time to proof read or properly format his output. Line spaces between paragraphs are an occasional after thought and there are a few spelling mistakes as well. If these minor points were fixed this would be a pretty decent release.
  
• The Day I Burned The Outhouse Down on Aug. 03, 2011
  
  I hate to be the one to point out AV fuel has an EXTREMELY high combustion point and that mere matches wouldn't set fire to it. If you'd bother to Google "if a lit match is dropped into JP-4, ignition does not occur." I now offically call bullshit!
  
• Aupes on Oct. 19, 2011
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  I finished this yesterday, the start isn't great and could use a bit of work. I would have liked to have had a bit more time on Earth to learn about what caused the poisonous clouds (if its explained in the book then I clearly missed it). I guess Les read the final book in the Forever War trilogy as the sections about the Earth colony are almost identical to Haldemans book, thats not a bad thing as Haldeman is a good writer and Les has emulated him well. The endings not fantastic either, I had the feeling the return to Earth would prove more fruitful so generally the middle (founding and building the colony & working with the Aupsians) is what redeems this work. I'd look forward to reading any more of your work though Les. This was a good read.
  
• All Geeked Up on Oct. 23, 2011
  
  There really needs to be a table of contents or some kind of intro that explains this is supposed to be 3 different stories under 1 main title as I reached the end of story one (which had no real ending, no outcome and left me very annoyed that no resolutions had been reached) and was confused to suddenly be reading a completely whole other story without any warning or indication of THE END. If this book was proofread then it wasn't done well with silly mistakes like rode for road and where for were as well as hypenated words that didn't need to be. Story 1 is terrible, there's WAY too much back story for the characters involved and not enough actual content of story proper. I'm a few pages into story 2 and about to give up on it because you are told she's the most boring character there is so I don't see anything to gain from reading her angle. Using different sized fonts for different stories (and internal thought monologues) was a VERY bad idea and is also intially confusing until you turn a few pages and realise why the font has changed. Again, something the author could have explained in a short intro. I will try to finish this if I can, I can't see me enjoying it though. If the author does read this comment, consider taking this book offline to write an explanatory intro about that its 3 different stories, do thoughts ONLY as smaller font and explain that in the intro and do all 3 stories in the same sized font also fixing the spelling mistakes. I'll have to read some of his other stuff to see if they are as meandering as this.
  
• Light and Dark on Nov. 28, 2011
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  Finally a sensible ghost hunter! I really need to introduce you to those idiots from TAPS.
  
• Dead Land, Malachi and Sebastian on Nov. 28, 2011
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  "This is the first chapter of the post-apocalyptic anthology". Erm, NO. second. Hatch was first.
  
• I Was Running on Jan. 01, 2012
  
  Perhaps it might be worth your while to add a few genre tags to this so people know roughly what to expect before reading it. The set-up is ok & I wasn't expecting the ending but the actual set-up didn't really work for the ending either. Not bad but could be longer, maybe a few teases and red herrings to semi-reveal the the ending and distract away from it so its bot expected but equally unexpected too.
  
• To End It All on Jan. 23, 2012
  
  For a short its well written, could use a slightly stronger and more defininitive feeling ending though. Nice work!
  
• One Man Army: Part One on Feb. 25, 2012
  
  try proof reading at least 4 times before you upload, some sentences appear to have words missing so don't make sense. You should always captilize the first letter in a name (which you both do then don't, terrible habit, get out of it now!). Smashwords frowns on ppl uploaded incomplete stories. If you're gonna write something, finish it, then upload it.
  
• The Recycling Kid on Feb. 27, 2012
  
  It seems I have to rewrite my original review as the author didn't quite get my intended meaning. This a GOOD read. A VERY good read. It's detailed enough to give great imagery but because I read a lot of horror it's something I have definitely seen before. Mr Stark's work looks more like that of a professional writer. Someone who has been doing it for at least a decade & who has sold enough of his work to be able to make a decent amount of money. It does remind me of IT by Stephen King (which isn't a bad thing, it's an excellent book), but it felt too much like that piece. Some writing can be too good, and make you suspect the "writer" of not having "written" all of it. I am NOT saying that is the case here. It's more than possible to use similar situations and make them your own, I know I've done it plenty of times. Edwin seems to have a pretty good horror mindset, I think he'll do well in this genre (his cyberpunk is pretty damn good too!) and look forward to seeing more in this series. I've now read a couple of Mr Starks samples and one thing is certain, he can write very well indeed. I was surprised to discover English isn't his 1st language as this particular title is exceptionally detailed. A.I. Rebellion did display the hallmarks of someone still picking up the little nuances of the English langauge. But it did remind me William Gibson. So Mr Stark has managed to emulate 2 of my favourite authors very well. My one piece of advice for his horror town? Perhaps consider anagramming the towns name, It was immediately obvious where you were going once you said what it was called. But otherwise? Keep up the good work.
  
• Yesterday, I died (The Devil's Forge) on March 27, 2012
  
  That's a right cracking little read for such a short story. Nice Going!
  
• Santa's Secret: The Story That Can Never Be Read on April 18, 2012
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  How do you review a story with no content at all? The blurb for this story is very ballsy but isn't there something in the Smashword rules about not publishing incomplete or partial stories?
  
• Ménage à Moi on April 18, 2012
  
  It makes a change to read erotica written by someone who actually does sound like they've HAD sex more than once. Unlike a lot I tend to see.
  
• Socks on April 22, 2012
  
  Instead of sticking to a thousand word limit, you should develop this into something longer. It'd be cool to see the world before, perhaps as a prologue so you can meet some the characters who go underground. Maybe learn about the bombing & the reasons behind it. develop out the quest for the library, the discovery then the search for the equipment to read it. possibly even have a few inserts from the ppl in the bunker. I reckon you have more than enough to work into a novella here. Go for it!
  
• Wrong Frequency on April 23, 2012
  
  This is an odd little story, it's not bad but a little muddled at the end. As a child I actually WAS haunted myself so I was reading it to see what other people make of the subject. I know the most basic rule of horror is that less is more and the 2nd rule is normally wait as long as possible to reveal the scare, but in this case whatever it was never came so this ended up being more psychological horror than actual horror. weird but readable, see what you think.
  
• Perry's requiem. on April 23, 2012
  
  This isn't half bad for a short, spotted a spelling mistake though. "A raven haired mad sat up". You probably meant man? Lose that 6 at the end too. Both easily fixed though. Zombies unlike any I've read about before, impressive. More, please!
  
• Camp Triple on May 09, 2012
  
  Google "Percy Jackson". Also less than 2000 words is 5 chapters? NO. You need to proof read this. And it's VERY bad form to upload an unfinished piece. And very cheeky to consider charging for something this short that isn't finished.
  
• Baby, It's Cold Outside on May 10, 2012
  
  An interesting idea, using the lyrics of a well known song to base a story around. Quite cleverly done.
  
• The Object Serial: Episodes Four, Five, and Six on May 13, 2012
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  And episodes 1, 2 and 3 are where, exactly?
  
• The Gift on May 24, 2012
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  This would be a lot easier on the eyes with paragraph breaks in it.
  
• Cemetery Tree on May 28, 2012
  
  once you fixed the fact you had put up a blank instead of a story this actually wasn't half bad. It could easily be developed into something longer as it has the basic back story established here
  
• Frontier 9 on May 28, 2012
  
  paragraph breaks would greatly aid the readability of this.
  
• Pennies for his corrupt and dysfunctional thoughts. on June 03, 2012
  
  Certainly different.