My novella, Love Lies Bleeding, can be downloaded for free today and tomorrow (Sept 29 & 30) via your Kindle reader or app. This is the first time I have offered any of my books for free, so it will be interesting to see how the free days go. If you do grab it for […]
Category: writing
I am currently in the middle of writing the first draft of The Seer of The Wastelands, which is the direct sequel to Spirit Binder, and will be hopefully released this December. Here are some bits from this week that struck me as tiny pieces of gold among the dull, serviceable rock of the first […]
I just exchanged the following series of texts with Michael: Me: Finished the final pass on LLB*. It’s pretty clean. Only minor corrections needed. I should be able to upload it tomorrow. Michael: Fantastic baby. Me: Yeah!! Happy. Michael: You should be. You’ve been working really hard this year. Me: Really? Seems like playing. You […]
Enter to win a paperback copy of After the Virus from September 10 – 21, 2012. Accepting international entries. ENTER HERE AUTOGRAPHED COPY! “With magic and spells, blood ties and unknown enemies, Spirit Binder is dark, fun fantasy read that can take you away to another world.” – 4 stars, Headshot Heather, http://doubleshotreviews.com “[Spirit Binder] […]
On a whim — just right now — and perhaps spurned on by this blog post over on Mr. asperger today, I clicked through my stats page to see my top viewed posts of all time. The top ten, disregarding the “home” (#1) and “about” (#3) pages, was very interesting. A gardening post takes the top […]
I don’t write insightful or instructive blog posts. I read a lot of blogs. I follow all the news about filmmaking or publishing or writing – whatever I happen to be interested in that day – but I don’t write them. It doesn’t really occur to me to share my opinion on such things as […]
Enter to win a paperback copy of After the Virus from August 27 – September 7, 2012. Accepting international entries. ENTER HERE AUTOGRAPHED COPY! “After the Virus sucked me in and didn’t let me go – the writing was great, the characterisation excellent and the plot kept me on the edge of my seat.” – […]
This lovely (and large) box arrived in today’s mail. Oh, yes, those are 10 paperback copies of After The Virus and Spirit Binder. And yes, there will be giveaways. I’ll keep you posted.
Ready? background / location /characters /plot – brainstormed – check. new 300 page notebook, titled, and blank page awaiting brilliance (or at least some words … hopefully pieced together into a story) – check. red ink topped in the fountain pen – check. Set? new Marianas Trench & Alanis Morissette & The Killers on the […]
“On the floor, the lemon-filling had spattered out of his half eaten donut. Phil kicked at the donut, missed, and slipped in the powdered sugar that now coated the immediate vicinity. Once he’d regained his balance, Phil felt bad about the mess, so he retrieved the donut with the hanky he carried in his breast […]