Over the last few months I’ve been putting up a series of posts regarding my progress in the writing of my humble saga of books. On those posts, I’ve talked a little about my writing process, and more than a few times I’ve mentioned my Spreadsheet of Doom™, which is the central source of my…
For some of you, that gif above may have brought back some memories. I hope so, because today I’m going to talk a little about gaming…but not in a boring way…hopefully! I love reading. I love seeing how an author shapes the environment around their characters. When done right, it can be spellbinding to immerse…
I can’t answer that question for YOU. Only you know what drives you to write. This blog post is about what drives me personally. So buckle up for a quick dive into my psyche! I can’t imagine any writer who doesn’t enjoy the art. Writing, in my opinion, is something that resides in your DNA.…
Now, granted, the information I Googled is WAY out of date.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…
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…
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…
