No, not some terrible teenage pop-rock bank from Brooklyn who used to work in a petrol station and someone thought they looked good in oil and half-rolled down jumpsuits, this refers to an Amazon review. Yesterday, Children of The Glyph was ranked 9,025 in Military Science Fiction on Amazon. Today, it’s sitting at 2,045. It …
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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 …
Oh Well. Next!
Had a post up yesterday, demonstrating my uncertainty over what to do regarding recent communications from the Publisher I was querying. I heard back, and they have decided not to go forward with The Ares Gambit. To be fair to them, their reply was personalised, very professional and polite, and if I’m reading between the …
Falling Forwards
Firstly, we have more Adventurers! Welcome, sit around, admire the finger-painting on the walls and feel free to hog the beanbags. Been a rough few days in the briar patch and the troublesome rabbits that support this blog (my family, Polly, Ian et al) are under a lot of pressure, no doubt like a lot …
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, …
Hurtful Truth
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. – Samuel Johnson, collator of the first dictionary. I don’t know how true this is for other people, but it’s certainly true for me. It has been brought to my attention by a friend, (you know who you …
Let’s Get Critical
“There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.” Joseph Addison A lot of what we call feedback is actually constructive criticism. Any writer is going to get this, but I recently received some and I’m not sure if it’s just petty. Now, I am aware that my proofreading isn’t the best – I occasionally leave in typos …
The Grind
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S Churchill Now there’s some fighting talk. My dear friend Ian is sorting out a printed version of my manuscript for Children of The Glyph and I’ve sent the blurb and some hideous ideas to Ken to build some concept of …
Mightier Is The Pen 