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Yesterday, after a day at work, it was still gloriously sunny (if a bit on the blustery and therefore cool side) and so I headed out into the garden to sit and write. The garden is such a nice place…
Continue readingTechnically, today’s review was the third review, but the first two, however balanced they were (and I think they were), were done by friends and family. Today I received my first review from a complete stranger. It wasn’t unsolicited though…
Continue readingAfter the recent rains today had moments of perfect sunshine. When I for home from work it was too nice to not sit out for a bit. So I did. And I wrote. I wrote something new today. I don't…
Continue readingMy debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, will be available for free from midnight to midnight PST on Thursday 7 June 2012. It has been a fantastic three weeks since I published the book, with sales averaging out at…
Continue readingToday has not been my birthday; its not been an un-birthday; but it has been my book’s birthday. When I first visited Iceland in the summer of 2001 I fell in love with the landscape, the people, the history, the…
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Continue readingI find myself confused by this article on the so-called digital self-publishing debate. At the end of the article I am still none the wiser as to whether the writer of the article is for or against digital self-publishing. After…
Continue readingFollowing my lunch today I finished off the illustration left from last night whilst seated at the table in the little office kitchen. Whilst I was there one of the anthropologist lecturers came in for his lunch, heated up his…
Continue readingÓdinn, who has committed crimes in his own world and has been cast out to walk the world of men for all eternity, desires to return home. He enlists the help of Charles Ancell, a young, ambitious, aluminum developer to…
Continue readingClaire asked me yesterday whether I had ever had any negative comments or criticism over my writing and how I dealt with that. To be honest I can’t really recall ever having experienced that, so maybe that means I write…
Continue reading~ Still perusing ideas for You Were My Betty, I think that Charlotte’s dissertation might have been about aspergers and the autism scale. I will never know but it strikes me as likely that, like so many other artists and…
Continue readingI have a weird brain. Who else could have taken my random thought and turned it into a novel about a lonely man who marries his imaginary friend, has an imaginary child, and then they become real? This lunchtime, during…
Continue reading‘Where now? Where are we safe?’ ‘Nowhere.’ And so, at this somewhat troubling point, I reach the thirty-seventh chapter of Mr Tumnal’s story. It’s a turning point for them to realise that they are safe nowhere, but it is Nowhere…
Continue readingI have been an absentee writer to the story of my Mr Tumnal, and I hate myself for it. That’s not to say that I’ve not been busy and productive in other ways, but I always feel this way after…
Continue readingIn today’s The Guardian there was a profile of Amanda Hocking, the writer who made millions by self-publishing online, and its a story that does give hope to all aspiring writers who are building up an expansive collection of rejection…
Continue readingThe Kindle has proved a pretty useful tool for final editing of my novel, The End of All Worlds. I have been able to use it to read the story, afresh, comfortably, whilst marking up changes and corrections using the…
Continue readingI have a perennial New Year’s resolution to read more. One that I’ve not been doing to too good at. I keep a log of all the books I read (note: it is also updated online via the Facebook Booktracker…
Continue readingToday’s posting is titled as the eleventh day of Christmas because that’s what I’ve always thought. You have 24 days in advent, followed by Christmas Day, and then the day after that is the first day of Christmas, and so…
Continue readingUnless you are writing a thriller its always been the case that its usual to find some way of writing out the police, or have your protagonists in some way resolve the plot without the need for them. It can…
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