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Read here the latest news of my adventures in publishing. Hopefully of interest not just to readers of my novels, but to other writers, as I share the thrills and spills of self-publishing!
The Wonders of the Middling Third Draft
This is the latest entry in a series of posts charting the development of my next novel, Beach of Spies. Previous entries were The Pleasures of the Bad First Draft and The Delights of the Not-Quite-So-Bad Second Draft. The attentive among you will notice some progression in the titles. It’s what’s called a “story arc.” Look at me, giving…
I’m Still Here!
It’s become traditional for me to start these blogs with an apology for how long it’s been since the last, but I think I’ve let this one go the longest (a whole four months!). And it’s only going to be a short update to say, ‘I’m still here, still writing, and you’re going to hear…
Get a proper job!
I’ve not posted here recently due to, amongst other things, the demands of having a proper job. I do myself and other novelists a disservice in saying this because for many, writing is their true profession. They treat it as seriously, if not more so, than any job for which they are on the payroll.…
Write what you know – The Curious Case of Yesterday’s Shadow
It has been two years since my last confession – that confession being the publication of my third novel, Yesterday’s Shadow. It’s a work of autofiction, written at a time when I didn’t know that genre was defined with its own word. Its genesis, for better or worse, was in a slavish adherence to that old…
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