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 …
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Bookends
The fabulous Ken over at Creative Covers has now been hired. Ares Gambit should have its cover very shortly. On another note, I’ve been mulling Taglines for it – the book has strong chess theme, complete with scheming, duplicity and hidden agendas and not very nice people! I’ve settled on this for now (all in …
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 …
Number Crunch
Firstly, I want to announce we have a few more followers to this blog! I bid you welcome, come and sit, indulge yourself by reading my nonsensical uttering and forget about your crazy day for a moment. Thank you to all my Dear Readers and Good Followers, your involvement and support keep me pushing onward. …
Read all about it!
I’ve been advertising my book through Amazon and have been consulting my Marketing Book about marketing my book. I think I’m going to have consider stepping it up a notch and getting a website. I’ve got the domain registered through WordPress already, but we’ll see. So far, the advert for Children of The Glyph has …
Receiving You
Customers are getting their books. Don’t they look grand? So, where’s yours? Have a good day adventurers! 🙂 #DeathtotheSong
Reach
I’ve gone and done it. In order to get the word out and connect with more potential readers, I’ve launched a twitter account. There’s not much there at the moment, but it will expressly be for me to interact with potential readers who want to join we few, we happy few, we band of cover-to-covers …
The Next Steps
Congratulations to all of us! We’ve hit fifty subscribers! WordPress calls them followers, and I say ‘Good Followers’ but really we’re just travellers on the road, pilgrims heading for Canterbury, just sharing our tales to pass the time, the stories and laughter eating up the miles until it’s time for us to take our leave …
In Character
I like my heroes to be legal and law-abiding, well, at least 75 percent of the time. My mother Herein is a bit of a ramble on Character. Next to plot, I think, Characters are the most whimsical, do-what-they-like parts of a book. They can be stroppy, uncooperative, bombastic and chewing the furniture at best. …
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 …
Mightier Is The Pen 