Author and Renaissance wannabe
I hope you like this! I’ve been working with those lovely design people at Blush again, to replace the self-made cover for Man In The Bath. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the original, though having my own toes in the public domain did worry …
Read MoreSo, a technical post today, all about legal deposit. I’ve always known that the British Library is supposed to have a copy of every book ever printed, but a question from a friend made me investigate further, as I wasn’t entirely sure what the situation …
Read MoreSo, while I still have my ‘book jacket’ brain in gear, I’m going to ask those lovely design people of mine to have a look at Man in the Bath, which sport a natty but self-designed cover at the moment. As brand identity is important, …
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Our Death: p13 – Untitled https://preludemag.com/posts/untitled-477/ This is a very difficult blogpost to write, as the poetry I’ve selected here as an example of the body of work isn’t one of Sean’s best known, nor is it an example of his work that I love …
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So, rookie mistake one, I’d left the guidelines on the cover template resulting in a dotted line around the different sections. Doofus. Easily fixed, though nothing is ever straightforward. To match the colours on the image I’d needed to flood fill with the colour code …
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Well, it’s an exciting day for me. My first paperback proofs arrived just after I’d finished my scrambled eggs on toast (I wasn’t constantly checking the tracking information all morning, honestly). It’s always scary to reach the next new stage of the publication journey, and …
Read MoreJust perusing a couple of lovely reviews that got posted on Amazon for Man in the Bath, and realised a pretty naive scheduling mistake I’ve made. The first comments (and no, as far as I’m aware I don’t know the reviewers) notes how the main …
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Well it’s finally here, after many months of work (and technically, this book began in 2007!) Man in the Bath is available from Amazon from today, free to download for he next five days! Click here to go to the download page. Please do download …
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As I talked about it in another post, I really should upload my thoughts on this film. With an amazing and at time surprising cast (I never expected Stephen Fry or Eddie Marsan) this is both a classic and almost timeless dystopian fable. The mask …
Read MoreTold you things will move quickly! Only a sample of Man in the Bath on the free fiction pages now, but this is because it will be available on Amazon from Wednesday. Despite what it says there, once I get the hang of the interface …
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