I’ve learned to really enjoy Twitter. I’ll admit I was completely non-plussed initially but having discovered the thriving and supportive reading and writing communities, it’s now one of my favourite places to engage. Besides, where else would I go to get my fix of ranty historical fact threads or cat videos? That said, there are…
Tag: writing
Dissecting Dragons – the first Guest Episode
I’ve talked about Dissecting Dragons, the speculative fiction podcast that M.E.Vaughan and I produce a bit before. However on Friday the first episode featuring a guest author was released and I feel it’s worth looking at the process in a bit more detail – not least of which because that episode has probably been our…
Self-Publishing Success with Joanne Phillips
Last month I took part in The Writer’s Workshop Self-Publishing Success course. I have a lot of respect for Writer’s Workshop – they provide advice, resources, help and opportunities for writers from all walks of life. Being part of that community has smoothed my path no end. But even if I were not an active…
Throwback Thursday: Candle flames, light bulbs, flash bulbs and flare guns; Editing your novel.
(First published on my old blog 19th August 2013) At the end of April, earlier this year, I finished writing my novel. I spent a day walking around in a hypnogogic state where everything seemed very crisp and bright and yet nothing was quite real. Bit of an odd day – I was torn between…
Throwback Thursday: The Rejection Code
(First published on my old blog 8th July 2013) Nobody like rejection. At least I have never encountered anyone who does. It would have to be a fairly rare fetish if it does exist independently of other factors. Writers, like brave souls returning to or continuing playing the dating game, probably make it fairly high…
Throwback Thursday: A Debut Author’s A B C of Publishing
Whether you want to be published traditionally or not, most of us are interested in what happens when you’ve crossed that fence. There have been some excellent posts on the mechanics of the publishing and I’m certain I can’t do any better. So here for your amusement is a series of observations from my first…
Throwback Thursday: First Choose your Victim
(First Published on my old blog 4th July 2013) As an avid reader of …well pretty much anything, I often find myself thinking certain, repeated thoughts about a variety of Main Characters. ‘Why did you make that obviously foolish decision?’; ‘what are you doing that for?’; ‘You realize that you’ve brought all of this…