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I’ve been going about my life, going to work, cooking dinner, reading books, watching television… living my life, with my novel sitting beside me at all times trying to get it past the current (now most-recent) scene. All the time…
Continue readingI’m enjoying being back with my story. I love it when my characters invade my every waking moment with their stories as they are doing at the moment. Of course it can be a slight problem in that I want…
Continue readingI’m loving that, for once, my New Year’s resolution to read more is going well. Only a few days after the middle of January and I might not have read one book but I have read the equivalent of one…
Continue readingI finished going though my royalty figures for last year today. It means that 2012 was the first year that I learnt a three-figure sum from my writing. Admittedly it’s been a pretty low three-figure sum but hey, I’ve never…
Continue readingJericho, Oxford is a bohemian neighbourhood. It’s sought after and desirable for its community, attractiveness, and appeal, but when it features in Mr Tumnal Jericho is not quite bohemian enough. I’ve got to a part in the story when Kathryn…
Continue readingFurther to Hugo Lindgren’s provocative article in The New York Times, ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Write’ it got me thinking about writing, and ideas and how one decides which ideas need to be written – or which ideas…
Continue readingAs night follows day, so today follows Twelfth Night. We weren't too bothered about the traditions of when decorations come as their dies seem to be a fair amount of difference of opinion as to whether it's the 5th or…
Continue readingThe T E Shepherd in me has been annoyingly absent of late. That is to say whilst I've had the desire, and the ideas to write, I have either been busy being the marketing executive for The End Of All…
Continue readingSo with the feared 2nd January, so I had to return to work, which was okay and I was productive, but I did find myself yearning for the sofa and my book. Come the afternoon I had to console myself…
Continue readingI’ve had a lovely Christmas break, seeing Emma’s family, spending time with my family, going to festive theatre, eating nice food (off-diet maybe but not excessively), and spending quality time in my home with and the cats and the decorations…
Continue readingSo what is My Next Big Thing? It’s a blog-chain for writers and the like, and last week it was the turn of Steven Davis. Steven is a writer, publisher, and bookseller in Reading, England. I met Steven on a…
Continue readingThere is really cool author promo event running on Facebook throughout December called Christmas For Authors. I decided to participate in it as it helps Indie authors (like me) get exposure and helps to boost book sales. We authors have…
Continue readingPlugged my current wordcount into the metre to be told that I’m 100% done. Umm, no… I’m close, but not that close. I’ve revised the word limit up for this novel up a bit. I guess I might as well…
Continue readingFollowing the launch of The End Of All Worlds in May this year Kevin Domenic of the Searching for Heroes book website was kind enough to interview me about my story, and, umm… me. That was back in June, and…
Continue readingThe End Of All Worlds has now been published for almost seven months – time I think to say something about how well its been selling. I’m really not sure how many I expected to sell (and how quickly) when…
Continue readingOkay, I admit it (and I’m probably going to damn myself to obliteration by saying it) but I’m beginning to get cautiously optimistic that The End Of All Worlds is starting to move forward on its own in sales. It’s…
Continue readingWhen Mr Tumnal’s story first presented itself to me I thought it might be a short story, maybe a novella. I quickly realised that it had enough to be full story but I thought that it would still be very…
Continue readingAfter yesterday’s ramblings about the small seeds of bigger stories, today I found my old writing notebooks with the early sketches of plotting and characters. It’s interesting to look back – especially having seen how The End Of All Worlds…
Continue readingClaire and I were talking at work today about how ideas for stories come about. She was telling me (and I hope she doesn’t mind me mentioning it here) about an sketchy idea that she had that might make a…
Continue readingTo celebrate one month in print, I have been interviewed by Kevin Domenic for the Searching For Heroes website. So if you want to find out a bit more about me, my life, my influences of course my debut novel,…
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