It’s been a couple of months since I wrote a blog post on my initial feelings about the querying process. The post was written on January 19th and detailed what I was thinking about my motivations for pursuing the traditional route for publishing and – after my first week or two of familiarising myself with…
If you’re an avid reader of my blog (and if you aren’t then why not? Go back and read all the previous ones now… It’s ok, I’ll wait for you… Done? Then we can continue!) then you’ll know that I’m a Trekkie. For those who didn’t go back and read the previous blogs, here’s the…
I don’t do topical subjects very often, but as the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer said today… “These are unprecedented times.” Which calls for unprecedented measures. So, today I’m going to talk about the two horrifying pandemics that have embraced the globe. Pandemic #1 – COVID-19 Or the Coronavirus to those who don’t think of…
It is the want of many writers to become published ‘authors’.At least, if they’re like me anyway. I have a burning ambition to see the words ‘published author‘ somewhere in my bio. Not just that, but I want to see my book on a shelf in a book shop somewhere. (I entertain dreams of sneakily…
To, Sylessae & Nikki I’m not sure what witchcraft you undertook to pull off this little surprise, but there’s a love heart for each of you up there because you are both utterly AWESOME! Okay, folks…here’s a little story about how amazing both the #WritingCommunity and the #ArtCommunity are. Let’s start with the writers. As…
We interrupt the normally scheduled blogs to bring you an update on what’s going on at my end of the writing process at the moment. For those of you following my latest blog posts about my influences, they will be returning very shortly. I just got a little delayed in looking for something for one…
Okay… I know this is meant to be a blog post series about how my reading over the years got me into writing, but I’m going to HAVE to take a little detour into a whole different world of story-telling. So, stay with me on this one. Because as I hit my 30s, something specific…
When Jon was a little boy, he got a passion for reading. Then the passion became an obsession. I don’t remember exactly where it started, or when, but I can put my finger on a number of very defining moments in my life as a reader. It started with a comic book… In 1982, I…
So, I’d been wondering what to write about this week and then struck pay-dirt when I was having a conversation with a very good Twitter friend. How do you go about creating characters for your book? Personal Preference Disclaimer! So, let me first stress emphatically that this is purely my own personal preference for how…
So… You’re trying to find an Agent?I feel your pain! The road to writing and publishing a book seems so clear when you start out. There’s kind of a road map to get you from point A to point B and so on…at least there is at first. Problem is that map becomes more obscure…
