Like most indie-authors I’m looking for the “secret of sales”. How do I get the word out, how do I attract those followers I need. And yes I know it’s not all about selling, at […]
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Who and what has influenced me as a writer?
I was asked what influenced me as writer recently. At first I thought it was an easy thing to answer. I’ve said before that Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End is what got me hooked on […]
Writers beware – sod’s law exists
Part of my first job on leaving Uni was in the quality assurance section of a scientific organisation. Believe it or not, before the late 1970s little of it existed. After all everyone was doing […]
What does it take to be a writer? – Persistence
For most writers success is not an overnight event. One of my all time, and sadly missed, writer heroes, Iain Banks, completed five or six books before being published. He persisted. Now I write this […]
Meet Inspector Kirby
Inspector Kirby, Jonah to his friends and ‘old school’ to his junior colleagues, wandered out of the cottage. He crossed the road and headed down the lane, with thorny hedge rows either side, that led […]