This is one of my peonies! Isn’t it lovely? They’ve mostly all come out this year, and seeing it makes me happy. I wish there were more bees about to visit it, but the weather has been awful. At least it helps everything grow! Anyway, on a related note, Covenant, my Line-of-Fire meets Underworld manuscript …
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Scorch Dearth
Sounds like a Napalm Death album. I write with reference to my on-off, on-off love/hate affair with my Vampire Urban Thriller The Covenant. Last week I tore it to shreds, scrapping a 70,000-word bowl of utter dog water, down to something I could work with. I had just over 10,000 words left. Killing your darlings …
Cookie Crumbled (Part 1)
A big thanks to everyone for liking, or sending kind thoughts – you know who you are! Unfortunately the agent I mentioned yesterday has declined. It was a substantial email explaining why. I’m going to take an unprecedented step here, and let you see it for yourselves. “Dear Arron, I read your material over the …
Second Helpings
Busy couple of weeks these last. Out of 12 Agents, so far I’ve had three replies to decline my manuscript, and five deadlines without reply (basically, no response). So, the quick thinkers that you are reveals there are only four left to come in, and they’re a while off. I have been working on other …
Agent Provocateur
No, not some band from the 1980’s, although there were a good few…I have submitted War Mages: Sharpshooter to twelve literary agents, so we’ll see how we do. I did my best to meet all the agent’s submission guidelines, so I hope I get a fair shot. What I did notice were so many different …
Picking Up The Pace
Gone through the editor’s report with a fine tooth comb, made lots of amendments, hopefully made the plot and context of the scenes in War Mages: Sharpshooter a lot stronger. Now it’s another full readthrough and line edit to make the pacing lean and tight. Then it’s off to the copyeditor and proof-reader at Magic …
Progress Report
Rapid fire one today! Had some feedback from a man of the cloth – of all people – on my Middle Grade Low Fantasy book. It’s still under a working title, but I think I might alter it slightly to better meet reader expectation. I’ll be going forward with that and some more feedback I’ve …
A Loss For Words
As authors we are constantly thinking about word count. We want more, always more, and so do Publishers, as they will often specify a word count in their application process – some ones I have seen will take no less than 80,000 which does qualify as full novel length according to some metrics. So it …
In Other Words…
Hello folks, welcome to our new members! A good start to the year, are the notifications of eager minds and fellow adventurers! Well, we have not been slack over these last couple of weeks, and whilst the the world turns and things are nuts, we have no choice but to Keep Calm and Carry On. …
Market Value
I’m pensive due to listening to the excellent Surviving Mars soundtrack, and still turning over the recent experience with the publisher in my head and it has been exceptionally useful to codify my understanding of something I gleaned from David Morrell’s The Successful Novelist, in which he cautions about writing to an existing market, or …
Mightier Is The Pen 