If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. Norman Mailer I’m beginning to think a career change may be in order. Apologies for the radio silence, but I’ve been busy been ill …
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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 …
Awards Season?!
A heartfelt thank you to Monica from TinyTotsPoetry for nominating me for the Liebster Award, which is a badge of honour for up and coming Bloggers. She’s been nominated herself and congratulations to her! 🙂 Part of the Award Rules are to answer a series of questions and nominate twelve other Bloggers – this is …
Know when to Fold
Some projects just aren’t going to take off, but I’m hoping this blog post isn’t going to be prophetic. I’m not quitting writing by the way – just having to put the brakes on a few things. Firstly, Covenant. It’s not working, and I have fallen out of interest with it. This does happen and …
Why?
“You’re the Bernard Cornwell of Power Armour.” – R.J “Don’t stop. Keep going, you’ve worked so hard.” – Polly “That was really good – so where’s the next book?” – Ian “You write sensually and beautifully and your action scenes are thrilling and exciting.” – Hannah Grego, Professional Editor. “If anyone’s going to write one, …
Mightier Is The Pen 