I was reading this lovely article about Marketing for Introverts at the Shrinking Violet Promotions blog today. It really struck a chord with me because of this extended writer’s block thing I’ve been going through recently: “Mitali Perkins is someone who has become quite an industry presence, but she also tweeted over 50,000 words last…
Meme question #3 3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)? I have about as much luck with names for characters as I do with titles. I’m concerned to get them exactly right for the character, and that often means giving the character an…
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females? I think I have too many to count – and I’m not going to count them to prove it. Though I suppose it makes a difference whether we’re talking major players or walk ons. I wouldn’t like to not count the walk…
Let’s see if I can keep this up and post an answer to one of the questions every day. Question #1 1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why. That’s hard! I tend to love most the project that I’m working on at that time. And I tend to…
I was about to say that I was still going through the crisis that started around Christmas, but then I decided that you can’t have a crisis for four months. A crisis doesn’t have that kind of staying power. Add together S.A.D (which is getting better), the fact that I have two frozen shoulders (which…
Because I can never resist perfumes that sound like poems and make you smell like weird things. I joined a decant circle run by snowwhitemoon fairly recently and read through the descriptions of all the perfumes on offer in BPAL’s “Lupercalia” selection 2010. Due to being skint, I could only afford four imps this time,…
The Old Market Tavern in Bristol (www.omtbristol.co.uk) is hosting a promotion evening for I Do Two on Wednesday April 14th. The Landlord, Richard Evans, has come on board in a big way – he’s offered to lay on a free buffet – and will promote it on his website and through journalist contacts in the…
This is almost certainly the round that False Colors gets trashed. I’ve been watching the first two rounds, and FC tends to get around 300 votes, while Zero at the Bone gets around 600. I strongly suspect that me begging for votes is not going to make any difference. So I won’t beg, I’ll just…
While chatting with tiggothy yesterday about men’s voices, and why I had made John in False Colors a counter tenor, I suddenly remembered this vid, which had been recommended to me by someone on my FL. I can’t quite remember who. Was it charliecochrane? Maybe. Anyway, I thought that everyone might like to see it,…
Well, my e-reader arrived! Naturally I would have preferred an iPAD, but I can’t justify spending that much on any kind of electronic device. I was going to buy a Sony e-reader, but when I puttered about Amazon looking for one, I came across a special offer for the Cybook 3 Gen, which cost less…
