Dead Centre II is Finished I have always thought that photos like this were posed, but this one honestly wasn’t. I was on the point of finishing, Dead Centre II, my latest novel at my usual watering hole, when my friend David Taylor came to visit. “Don’t say a word,” I whispered only one …
Pantsing vs Planning a Book Writers, of books and probably other forms of writing, are divided into two kinds: those who write their book as they go, that is, by the seat of their pants – and hence ‘pantsing’ – and those who plan their novel. It is called pantsing vs planning. I didn’t about …
Tiger Lily of Bangkok ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ is my entry into the NaNoWriMo 2013 challenge. The challenge is to write a book of 50,000 words during the month of November. This is the diary of my MaNoWriMo 2013 experience. 1/11/2013: I have never entered before, but I am ready to write a new book. …
NaNoWriMo Challenge 2013 Hi, I have entered into the NaNoWriMo 2013 challenge. This is my first time. For those of you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo stands for, it is National Novel Writing Month. It has been going for about twelve years, but I had never heard of NoNoWriMo either. Despite it describing itself as a …
Happy Days! Hi, Happy days are here again… Two good things happened to me yesterday, as opposed to the shed-load of bad things that I am getting used to these days. No 1: I had a lovely email from a guy that has written to me before, called David. This is what he said: ” …
My Experience As A Writer My first novel as a ‘real writer’ was called ‘Behind The Smile’, but it was not my first experience in self-publishing, since I had already created over 150 web sites and a hundred-odd ‘How To…’ manuals plus a book of my father’s automatic writings. However, I did feel that publishing …
Authorship and Self-Publishing I have written and self-published more than a hundred books, so it came as quite a surprise to me the other day when a good friend and author of four excellent books told me that he found authorship in the form of self-publishing on his own daunting and confusing. It seemed so straight-forward …
Controlling The Price of Your Books So, you have written your ebook and done some research into pricing and you have determined what you want to sell your book for, let’s say that that is $4.99 Then you publish it on Kindle, which sells on Amazon, as a part of that company. All well and …
How I Got Into Publishing Twelve years ago, I was the office manager of our family construction firm in South Wales. One day, my father came in, handed me a bag of papers, notebooks and drawings and said: ‘See what you can do with this lot.’ They were the automatic writings that had been …
