Saw this over on a fellow writer’s blog: Crossing the Line | Barry Lillie (wordpress.com) Where Barry describes that he wrote a 3-Star book review and has later been contacted by the author asking him to change said review. I don’t know much about the details beyond what Barry describes and to be fair it’s …
Tag Archives: editing
A Quick Word
A very brief update from me today as I am absolutely bushed. Got some kind of horrible sore throat, kept me up all night. Ugh. Anyhoo, have heard from the Editor and she has commenced work on the Fantasy/YA novel I’ve been brewing. She’s told me her report should be ready in three weeks! This …
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 …
Beginning Of The End
(Or My Opinion on Prequels). Firstly, hello to all our new Fellow Adventurers! To those not in the know, I do not have followers. I have people along for the ride, and sometimes what I say entertains or strikes a chord with them. At other times, they roll their eyes and demand I retire to …
Just Trundling
Welcome fellow travellers! Especially our new batch of friends as we march in a Pilgrim’s Procession to the lands of adventure and excitement, where our protagonists are battered senseless for the ones they care about, put through hell for our amusement, and given a bloody good ending (if you know what you’re doing) where they …
Not Wasted
Well, got the email from the Publisher considering the Ares Gambit, and they were very polite, but formulaic in their decision not to proceed. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little disappointed, but they invited me to submit again with another proposal in the future and they replied to me shortly before …
Back-Forwards
Welcome to all our new adventurers, and hello to all the long-suffering campers already here! I regret although I am writing, my motivation is really suffering. I think I manged 300 words today, maybe the same every day, all week. That’s bad considering that the usual amount is 1,000 and I am capable of doing …
Own Sweet Time
Thought I’d write something and catch up with you all! Thanks to all my long term adventurers and those new to the fold for sticking with it! Been up and down busy lately, with two projects now sitting in a lull, awaiting decisions. Got one off with an Editor – only because it’s a totally …
Busy, busy…
Apologies to all who follow the blog for not updating in a few days – ten (wait, ten? ten!) to be exact. I haven’t been idle. I’ve finished my YA book, which may be an adult book, God knows at this point, and have finally found an Editor after trawling the pages of a directory …
Just Do(n’t) It
I can’t afford Shouty LeBeef, nor do I want to pay him royalties, nor do I own running shoes named after a Greek goddess (Nike), so we’re just going to have to make do. Let’s get down to brass tacks. When I frequented Twitter, I had several mutual followers, I followed them, they followed back, …
Mightier Is The Pen 