Smashwords 13th Annual Read An Ebook Week

Read an Ebook Week 2022 The Smashwords 13th Annual Read an Ebook Week sale is now on! From 6-12 March find a variety of discounted ebooks including my own: The Edge of Darkness, a sci-fi about mutinous cyborgs set on a deep-space ship! Demon’s Blood, a YA paranormal about a teenage demon hunter vs aContinue reading “Smashwords 13th Annual Read An Ebook Week”

2021 Update

Hi kittens. I know this blog has been pretty quiet recently. I had a pretty rough 2020 – along with the rest of the world. I was hospitalised twice and nearly died (not COVID related). I went back to University for a post graduate course. I continued to work full time at my day job.Continue reading “2021 Update”

Write What You Know: Knowing More Than You Put On The Page

As a writer, I feel the need to really know my characters, their situations, their props and settings. For The Edge of Darkness, that wasn’t so hard. It was largely a made-up world, set in deep space on a spaceship and the weapons used were also made up. Internet-Based Research I did some research onContinue reading “Write What You Know: Knowing More Than You Put On The Page”

NaNoWriMo Prep in October – The Writing Playlist

Every year I prepare a writing playlist specifically for NaNoWriMo. Sometimes I need absolute silence to write, other times I can do with some tunes to get me in the right frame of mind. I find that film soundtracks work best of all. This year I discovered Spotify. It’s a free web player with aContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Prep in October – The Writing Playlist”

NaNoWriMo Prep in October – Planning

I’ve been super busy this year producing work under a couple of different pen names, but I always find November’s NaNoWriMo to be a good writing exercise and time to produce something under my real name. I’ve done NaNoWriMo every year since 2010. Two of the books I completed and self-published under NaNoWriMo were highlyContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Prep in October – Planning”