Awaiting Publication
I finally have a first proof copy of my new short story in my hands, ready to be published in small format as a book. It is a very good feeling, much better than seeing a listing on Kindle for an eBook! There is no set date for publication of A New Beginning though, too [...]
Time For Change
Anyone who has been following me for the last three years (and a few days, I missed my third blogging anniversary on May 12!) will already know where many of my interests have been in the past. I have written much about erotica; about the discovery of myself and my sexuality; about life as a [...]
Hissy Fit?
The life of an author, no matter which genre they might write in, no matter what their print or virtual medium may be, is not an easy one. We all suffer criticism, we all – hopefully – get reviews and a certain amount of attention. How we handle this attention is another matter entirely. Take, [...]
Petty Annoyances
It’s all very well using a spellchecker to make sure that what you have written is correct, as far as spelling goes, but what happens when you write a word down which is correctly spelled, but the wrong word? I must admit, I have been a little bit lazy recently. I have relied on my [...]
Swiping A Book?
Here’s a Tweet with a very serious question, as some surveys claim that more people are reading flickering screens than actual paper books. I don’t think there can be a serious question about Dan Brown, though. For my part I shall be waiting for Inferno to come out as a film, the writing style is [...]
The End Of Crowd-Funding
At least, the end as far as I am concerned for the time-being. After nearly two weeks of waiting I finally received a reply from someone at the last crowd-funding site I had thought of using to help find sponsors for my small press company. A straight refusal. Now, I can handle refusals without any [...]
Research
The thing about writing, no matter what it may be, is that you need to get your facts as close to reality as is humanly possible. Much of the time spent in the lead-up to a writing project, certainly for me, is checking that what I want to write when it connects to a certain [...]
It’s Only Writing…
I don’t know how some people – like J. K. Rowling for example – manage to write in public, sit themselves down in the same café or restaurant each day and produce their work from beginning to end. I can do it, but only if it is somewhere I am unknown, or where, better still, [...]
Despite The Sun And Warmth…
I am sitting at my desk and crunching words out on my computer. While the desire to write is always there, sometimes the words are lacking. Not exactly writer’s block, but something close to it: that time when you have the idea but not the beginning, when you sit in front of a blank screen [...]
It’s Not The Same
There was a time when a small notebook – and I mean the type made of paper! – was all I needed. A quick note here and there, a few sentences strung together, a reminder of things to do. Going back to using a notebook full time, which I am forced to do at the [...]
The Hardest Loss
It’s hard for other people to appreciate, not having the experience, but some things are almost vital for life. In my case, because of my disability, it is a means of communication. There are few people who can sign, fewer still who have the patience to wait while someone writes down the words they wish [...]
Here’s Hoping!
I think that I must have burned the whole package of candles over the last couple days: working through the night to get my new web site up and running, putting on content, checking facts and figures, formatting and checking potential publications and, in between all that, checking various web sites, pages, social media to [...]
Funding: Getting Started
The first thing that I have done with my plans, the ideal of publishing my own work and that of others in print, is sleep on it. What may seem like a good idea at the start is sometimes more of a pipe dream than anything else, more something that lives in the world of [...]
In With The Crowd
Nothing stands still, the world is constantly changing and we all need to be able to keep up with it, to adapt, to move with the times. Unless, of course, we happen to belong to the Amish Community, but even they have had to change according to the world around them in small ways. In [...]
Getting Into Print
Getting published elsewhere is a wonderful feeling, a form of acceptance by peers and contemporaries which helps the inner ego as much as spurs on the desire to write, to create. It is not, however, an easy process and, as any published writer will tell you, also not one – except in a few well [...]
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