You know how it is. You lost your job. Your job is incredibly stressful. Maybe you’ve got a chronic illness. Perhaps you’ve had extra hours at work, or could it be that you’ve simply spent all night watching K-Drama and can no longer function normally? You’re exhausted. Whether that exhaustion is physical or mental, it’s […]
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Hey guys! Sorry-pardon for the sad lack of blog posts this week: I’ve been ‘orribly sick and I’m only just starting to feel better. On the bright side, I’ve still been writing BATEOY and BLACKFOOT. On the less-than-bright side, I’ve been too exhausted to do any other kind of writing–or much else, actually. I was
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June has been an odd month, so far. I’ve been feeling like I’m drifting aimlessly, which is more or less normal procedure after a book release, but it doesn’t make the feeling any more comfortable. What I’m meant to do during and after a new book release, of course, is write the next book; but I find that
Strings, Bows, and New Books Read More »
A little while ago I wrote a blog post about Getting the Most Out of Your Royalties, in which I discussed the Big Thing I had just discovered. As an Australian author, I had been waiting two months for Amazon to tot up my royalties and send out a cheque for the amount, then taking it to
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THE FIRST CHILL OF AUTUMN has officially entered phase two! What I mean by that, of course, is that it’s in the competent hands of a set of very lovely people who have agreed to beta read for me. I’ve already had some amazingly useful feedback, which means I’m plotting and cogitating on changes (or
TFCOA: Entering Phase Two! Read More »
How exactly is Self-Publishing related to early birthday presents? Allow me to explain. I’m sitting here with a 3-cd box set of the Monkees that was a birthday present from my sister. It is not, however, my birthday for another week. So why do I have a birthday present already? Mostly cos I love presents
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As I speak type, I’m consuming chicken nibbles and drinking sars (that’s root beer to all you Americans out there*). This is because I’m worn out from writing Last Scenes. I’M SUFFERING FOR MY ART, OK? This blog post is late, and I probably won’t write another one this week, either. Reason being, I’m
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Last week I put out a request for beta readers. The response was overwhelming (in the loveliest of ways) and I have now a very decent amount of beta readers. This means I’m closing my beta readers list to further sign ups. However. However. If you are still keen to get first dibs on my books,
It’s finished! The Short Thing I started as a challenge has grown to be a 41k word novella titled PLAYING HEARTS, and has finally finished its growth spurt! I had a huge day of writing on Saturday (6k) and a huge day today (5.5k) to finish it; and it feels SO GOOD! Now I’m gonna
Three cheers (and lots of Hogan’s Heroes)! Read More »
Hey guys! I know, I know. I haven’t written a blog post since last Monday *gasp* Okay, I know most of you don’t really care, but mea culpa, and all that–or Amazon culpa actually. I’ve just found out that they’ve messed up the formatting of the two books I did get professionally formatted, so I’ve been ‘orribly busy just
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