I’m into my last editing/rewriting of the fourth book of the Displaced. After nearly three years away from this series I’ve managed to get back on it and write the next book. That’s so much longer than I intended, and…
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Advance Reader Copies
I’ve been getting a lot of queries about my ARC group and how to join it, so thought I’d better post something. What the Advance copy readers get is access to pretty much every book, for free, in return for…
Another writer in the family
Looks like I’m not the only writer in my little clan. My daughter, who started showing a huge reading and writing interest from quite an early age (She reads far more than I do) has managed to write her own…
New Year. Strange day. Late news.
And so this has been the strangest day of my life so far. The kiddies are out with grandparents, and I just sat all day in front of my computer, tapping out new words added to the new “Thrownaway” (Tentative…
Videos that all indie writers should watch (and everyone else for that matter)
Neil Gaiman on DRM Anne Rice and self-publishing. Neil again…Make Good Art
James herbert
There is a row of books on top of one of the shelves in my little library (it’s actually not that small any more) that I’ve owned for a very, very long time. They are all paperbacks and all dusty,…
This time it will be different.
Last year I was absolutely rubbish. I published so little during that twelve months that I’m disgusted with myself. I can’t even give a good reason as to why it happened. I released only one book myself – the third…
The end is not the end.
Just a few answers for the people who have asked, and I’m surprised at how many of you there are now! The Corridor IS the last the current Diary of the Displaced series, but I never said to anyone that…
The 10,000 word day (unfortunately not mine!)
Zoe winters has posted (and recently updated) a blog post about achieving what a lot of people consider to be “the impossible”, as in a 10,000 word day. Yes, ten thousand written words in one day… The most I’ve ever…
I wonder what H P Lovecraft would have thought…
When I was about eight years old a very good friend of mine introduced me to a game called The Call of Cthulhu. A roleplaying game using the cheapest 4k monitor. For those of you that don’t know what one…