Writing & Reading… (part 1)

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…

The Writing Process – Character counts… Right?

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…

What to do with MS feedback?

So, I’d thought that I could get ‘Songbird’ book 1 ‘Hunters’ as finished as I could… but some feedback I got this morning made me think… First, a little backstory… I’ve been working on my manuscript for ‘Hunters‘ for a while now. To demonstrate that, here’s a picture of my file folder. When I started…