The Moment & The Mountain
It’s been said it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert. If you spent an average of two hours a day for six days a week, it would take | Read more…
Category: Blog
All blog posts, back to 2012. For earlier posts, go to the “dusty archive”.
Forget Self-Publishing vs Trad-Publishing! Why Authors Should Embrace Both
In 2015 I attended the London Book Fair for the first time (If you’ve never been, go, you’ll learn a hell of a lot about how the book trade works). | Read more…
Editing Tips: Using Find & Highlight to Address Common Mistakes
One of the most crucial parts of editing is identifying your own habits so you can address them. Repetition, crutch words, over use of adverbs, passive voice etc. This is | Read more…
Artwork Commission – Artist wanted
I’m currently looking for an artist with a traditional abstract pen and ink style to produce artwork for use on the book cover of Mime, my supernatural thriller novel. The | Read more…
On Reading your Writing Heroes – 3 Things I’ve Learned from Brandon Sanderson’s ‘Elantris’
About two years ago now I started listening to a podcast called Writing Excuses. I’ve been listening more and more regularly. It chimes with me; I can always find ways | Read more…
Project 2018 – My Year of Making Things Happen
For the last two or three years I have been in a kind of progress limbo. Various time and financial commitments have forced me to side line my own personal | Read more…