Now, granted, the information I Googled is WAY out of date. Regardless, it’ll amply demonstrate the issue I find myself facing this morning. Okay, so here it is… I found a reference to the number of books that Amazon currently had on sale in 2014. Brace yourself… 22.8M Paperbacks You have got to imagine that…
Mark Twain Richard Bachman Robert Galbraith Anne Rampling Avid book geeks will know what those four names represent. Those that don’t know, here are a few more names… Samuel Clemens Stephen King JK Rowling Anne Rice Let me help you out…there are eight names, but only four people. The first four are the pen names…
Yes, I know… I said I’d try to update you with news once a week, and I’ve already slipped on that target. So, this is your first bi-weekly update! 😛 Editing conitnues on Hunters. Nikki is still helping with the final edit (I say helping, she’s actually doing ALL the heavy lifting. For which I’m…
Admittedly, as a citizen of the UK, I don’t know much about why 4th July (July 4th?) is celebrated so much in the United States. The limit of my knowledge comes, as it does with many things in life, from watching the movie of the events that took place. I’m lazy that way. Why read…
This is the first of the ‘update’ posts which I’ll put up on the website from time to time. Though they’ll appear in the Blogs area, these will just be smaller posts keeping you abreast of my progress so far with the books I’m writing. So, here goes. Editing proceeds apace on Book 1 ‘Hunters‘.…
From time to time, I’m going to put up non-spoilery book reviews of books I’ve been reading and have enjoyed. There’s a reason for me doing this… On the eve of 2020, a mere 5 months ago, I made a New Year’s Resolution. It was a simple one. Nothing earth-shattering – just a pledge to…
Twitter holds regular ‘Pitch‘ events. These are events where you try and pitch your work in 280 characters and hope an agent bites on your premise! Two such events are: #PitMad #IWSGPit Here are the pitches I created for these events! I’ll go through each of them and explain what I was going for. Pitch…
This lockdown has been a bit of a blessing for me personally. I honestly don’t want that to sound like I’m belittling the trouble that others are having, or the people who have suffered or died as a result of Covid19. This is purely a speculation on how this period of quarantine has affected me…
So, it’s that day of the year when we celebrate all things Star Wars. And now that I’ve spent the day teasing my Star Wars-loving work colleague by changing my Skype avatar to the Battlestar Galactica logo, I suppose I’d better actually talk about something vaguely Star Warsian… If that’s even a word? I’m going…
If you’ve been reading along with my blog for the past few months, you know that I’ve been pretty vocal about stress, anxiety, and mental illness as a whole. It’s important to me that I openly talk about what ails my addled brain. Perhaps it’s because of my own journey, but anything related to this…
