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 […]
Tag: learning
What I’ve learnt from 4 years of blogging
Recently a site, The Digital Reader (morning coffee – 1 September 2017) picked up on a blog I wrote in 2014, 7 key things I’ve learnt from a year of blogging. To my pleasant surprise […]
Short stories – great for both writers and readers
I remember not long after my life-long addiction to science fiction and fantasy began I bought an Isaac Asimov book without realising it was a collection of short stories. At first I felt a little […]
Indie author – afraid to change?
It’s daft I know. There I am, an indie author, with books only selling the odd copy every now and then – yet for some reason I’m afraid to change things. Perhaps part of it, […]
The publishing dilemma of the indie author
I recently went on holiday for a week (yes, again for any regular readers of my blog). It was a very chilled trip to the Greek island of Cephalonia, I recommend it. So I had […]