Most of what I have to say on this subject, I have already said in an earlier post in which I was vehement about voice. I decided to repeat that here, and add a little bit on the bottom about how you develop your voice. If there was one thing that came out of the…
All the “S”s today 🙂 Blurb Damn it, a man shouldn’t always have to be afraid… Alec Goodchilde has everything a man could want—except the freedom to be himself. Once a year, he motors down to an exclusive yacht club on the Cornish coast and takes the summer off from the trap that is his…
In reply to my “help, I can’t think of anything to blog about!” post recently, Wulfila asked my opinion on “the current development of the self-publishing vs. traditional publishing situation”. I’ve been lucky enough to try all three types of publishing. Running Press, who published False Colors was a biggish traditional mainstream publisher. Most of…
finishing incorporating the points made by the lovely Megan Derr and Bimo into my final draft of The Glass Floor, which frankly is much better for them. While I was doing that, I spotted some anomalies of my own, such as ‘if Radu can’t see magic, how come he can see the magical forcefield at…
On the one hand, conceptually it’s not earthshatteringly new. There must be millions of two-blokes above scene covers out there. On the other hand, I still really like it. Happily, I couldn’t quite get the word count on this one above 60,001 words without making a deliberate decision to pad it. So I left it…
Okay, so we’ve talked about the equipment you need to write your novel, about finding time and space for writing. We’ve considered structure, setting, characters and plot plans, and we’ve done as much research as we need to do to get to the stage where we feel it’s possible to write about this setting. If…
Excerpt from Blessed Isle by Alex Beecroft 1790 British Age of Sail For Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he’s ever worked for….
Around Christmas time, I converted my desk to a standing desk. I’d like to say that I did this for worthy reasons connected to reading up on the latest health news and deciding to up-level my life and increase my productivity. This would not be true. I did it (TMI warning, skip to the end…
Edited quickly because this felt like something to share with my friends-list. HaikuJaguar on publicity and artistic insecurity: http://threejaguarscomic.net/ ~*~*~*~ Here is a lovely review of Captain’s Surrender http://julian-griffith.livejournal.com/27644.html which makes me smile not only with the joy appropriate to a good review but with the additional joy appropriate to a review that really seems…
I’ve been saying I should do this for a long time. Now I’ve finally bitten the bullet and done it. In my time I’ve made a lot of book trailers, but I only have Windows Media Maker to do it with, which generally means it’s some pictures and some text with an unrelated soundtrack. I’m…
