In 2008 I published The Witch’s Boy for the first time in print and ebook format through Lulu.com. A little later, I accepted a contract from a publisher to publish it under their imprint in 2009. Once I’d signed the contract, I retired the Lulu version and made it unavailable. Then complications ensued, with the…
I’ve noticed a pattern among my friends who are new authors. They almost always start off reviewing books. Even if they don’t write reviews for a review site, they write up what they think about the books they read and post them on Amazon or on Goodreads. There’s a good reason why so many writers…
Charlie Cochrane, as well as being an amazingly prolific and talented author is also a whiz at thinking up ideas for places to promote. Recently she suggested that as we were both members of the RNA (the Romantic Novelists’ Association – the UK equivalent of the RWA) we should write a piece about gay historical…
I met Rawiya on Twitter, and was struck by her enthusiasm and drive. Anyone who can get 5-6 stories out of a single holiday is awesomely productive by my measure 🙂 We agreed to do a blog swap for the day, so I’m handing over to her now: 1. Who has been the biggest influence…
Treat yourself and help Japan First of all, I was going to post about the wonderful birthday present I got from Mirien, which I absolutely love. I’ve put it on a black thong to wear it because that seems to go better with the feeling of wearing something out of antiquity. I tried to take…
I started this diary of the tattoo healing process because I assumed there would be something to report. I’d googled it a bit and I was aware of horror stories such as waking up the first morning after with the tattoo stuck to the sheets and pulling out half the ink trying to get it…
Really nothing to report at all. The inflammation has gone altogether, it’s still slightly dampish at the very thickest parts of the ends of the cross, but dry everywhere else. No scabbing, no itching, no nothing. Thankfully the micropore tape does not give me the allergic reaction the zinc-oxide tape did, so I’m on course…
(Or maybe the first full one? I’m not sure.) Anyway, this is what I was worried about last time I posted:
Today I went for my first ever tattoo. It was a big deal for me, made bigger by the fact that I’m the sort of person who worries about every single thing that could go wrong as if all of them could happen at once. But it was also a big deal because I’d wanted…
I appear to have completely failed to tell anyone about this guest blog that I did on Julia Knight’s blog. How to stay sane with social media so I thought I would link it now. I do, in fact, try to keep up with Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Livejournal and my list of blogs I read in…
