Author and Renaissance wannabe
So as my proofer is kindly correcting all my mistakes for the next book, Hope Is A Six Letter Word, my lovely designers (http://blushcreate.com/) have sent me ideas for the next cover. They sent me fifteen rough ideas for direction, based on some keywords about …
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History Is A Lie is a blast from start to finish, and barely pauses for breath. I have no idea how you’d really categorise this book, but if you like alternate histories, the supernatural, serial killers, cop drama, social comment or learning about real historical …
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I’m going to post a couple of linked blogs over the next weeks about marketing of books, with particular reference to one I read on the subject, by Reedsy, called aptly enough, How to Market a Book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08TZJQ1FB/ ). Let me say first off, I …
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I’m currently about 20,000 words into my next-but-one novel (Hope Is A Six Letter Word currently under proofing knife), and the research part of this has never been so enjoyable! This week I am mainly listening to mid-70s and early 80s rock music, so am …
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Buckle in, this could be a long one. It will be fun and educational, but could be painful in parts, as no Bishop ever said to an actress. I’m going to post something no author should probably ever post, but I always want to be …
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Let me hold my hands up from the beginning and say that I don’t usually read pure romance novels. Not meant as a judgement of the genre in any way, it’s just not my usual preference, so it was always going to be an uphill …
Read MoreJust a quick blogpost here about the pricing of novels (for fellow authors). I have to admit, I found this quite a difficult decision, as I find profit margins can actually be really small on self-published books through Amazon. I’m not doing this for the …
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I occasionally get accused of being overly harsh in my review rankings (in terms of stars), but before I begin this one, let me start by just saying that the reason I might sometimes seem stingy is that I don’t review Indie books, I review …
Read MoreI had an odd realisation the other day. As you may have realised, quite a lot of my fiction is set in the NorthWest of England (not surprising as I know it well), but the likely locations for the next three fiction books on my …
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I’ve mentioned in some previous blogposts how accuracy can be difficult, and I’m by nature someone who wants everything in my books to be truthful and factual where it can be, but there are a couple of exceptions. In tEXt me, there were a couple …
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