‘Tis the season…to go a little bit crazy
Today marks the official start of the Christmas Season, which for me means organising a visit home, booking our dogs into suitable digs for their “holiday”, and trying to find new hiding places for my wife’s Christmas presents. It also means I’m a few weeks off my promise to have “something” published before the end […]
What I really think of… Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey’s Wool ‘The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death; he could hear them squealing as only happy children do. While they thundered about frantically above, Holston took his time, each step methodical and ponderous, as he wound his way around the spiral staircase, old boots ringing out on metal treads.’ So […]
What non-writers need to know about writers
This post is going out to all my non-writer friends and family, and is a (mostly) tongue-in-cheek list of things you should know about writers. There is a grain of truth to all of them, and of course, this list is incomplete, only because it’s based on my experiences as a writer, and not writers […]
What Pad?
Wattpad is one of my most recent online discoveries when I was procrastinating researching ways to find an audience. I’m an unknown author, and in this new world of Anyone Can Publish, being unknown is a huge problem. What’s also a problem is building an audience for your books from scratch. I’ve read a […]
Coping with change and my Big News
This change I can deal with.Image courtesy of Rebecca Barray WANA Commons I’m no longer big on change. I say “no longer” because I used to be all for it. Years ago, when a club I was involved with debated whether to cut ties with our existing sports club or go in a new direction […]