Author and Renaissance wannabe
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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If you wonder why I’m posting another glowing review, the answer is actually quite simple. I won’t post a review of a book on my website that I don’t really like, as I don’t think it’s fair on an author who’s put their heart and …
Read MoreI can’t believe it’s 2022! What a weird couple of years, but for me, there are positives as well as the more obvious negatives. I’ve had this website for a year now, and have thrown myself into the writing World wholesale. And I love it! …
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Hello there. I’m a pinned post. It gets a bit lonely as people meet me once and then never visit again, but I’m a sort of concierge paragraph for the website, so that’s my job I guess. Welcome to the home of Kit, please feel …
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So I thought I should post a couple of short reviews to some other fantastic Indie authors, starting with a wonderful book I enjoyed a huge amount. Stalin’s Door is a hugely ambitious and fascinating read, and captures the spirit of the horrifying period in …
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