Greetings from Luxembourg, where the early morning snow has melted away (just like 2019 is doing).
(The photo is of the city looking beautiful in deep winter: we only had a scattering of snowflakes this morning and this looks much prettier.)
Wake up call!
Almost twenty percent of the year is already lost in the in the mists of memory. We should all make the most of the remaining months before they slip away too.
So do I take my own advice? Er… Does anyone? Continue reading
It’s been a while since I blogged. No, it wasn’t the longest coffee break ever. To be honest, I’ve had enough medical, legal, and dentistry distractions to set me back more than a few months, but I’m bouncing back!
Anyway, I had to put my writing and publication on hold, and build up a backlog of analytical responses for my online crit groups. (Apologies, fellow critters.)
But what a time to climb back in the saddle! Continue reading
No, not another “Game of Thrones” review.
It’s snowing in Luxembourg, Halloween is here and there’s only 55 days left to Christmas at time of writing. (To keep track of how time’s running out for your gift shopping, click here.)
And it’s been another month of ups and downs in a writer’s life…
“Your Secret Library” Online Magazine – Halloween edition!
Here’s your free read of seasonal horror stories
It includes my short story “Let The Children Sleep”
Like many other authors, I’ve had to change my newsletter mailing company as they weren’t delivering on the promised delivery. There’s so much admin involved: migrating my mailing lists, setting up new signup forms and “thank you” mails, creating newsletter templates, changing the links to my signup form in all the books and everywhere else I published it.
Amazon continues to have problems retaining valid book reviews. So far (touch wood) I’ve not lost any more, but other writers are again seeing theirs erased. I’m watching and waiting…
And so to the stuff I am supposed to be doing – writing!
My classic noir is in final revision with a target publication date of January 1st. A dozen of my short stories are with various online critique groups.
The new covers for my sci-fi trilogy seem to be doing the job, as my sales are climbing. (Someday soon, I have to write the sequel.)
I’ll get back to making imaginary things happen to people who don’t exist.
Happy Halloween!
This writing game is a bit of a strange adventure.
Telling Lies
A fiction writer tells lies in a vacuum. S/he tells lies about things that didn’t happen to people who don’t exist. And there might be no one listening… Continue reading
In my previous post, I dangled some “click bait” about how I was over-committed, then offered only a cliffhanger. My bad.
Seriously, I found myself in a time bind over the last few months… Continue reading
I’ve finally had to admit it. I’m over-committed.
I never planned to spam my blog followers with daily ramblings. Twice or thrice a month would suffice. But I’m down to one post a month.
So I changed the tagline in my posts to “An occasional blog”. Truth is good. (Unless, of course, you’re a politician of any persuasion.)
So why am I swamped? Continue reading
It’s been a long month.
Apart from the usual writerly stuff (you know, the stuff a writer thinks s/he’s going to be doing like… er… writing) authors across the world have been struggling with Amazon‘s widespread and apparently random deletion and blocking of reviews and trying to navigate the European Union’s new GDPR law.
Read on… Continue reading
