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.
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I recently had a great time at the 68th British National Science Fiction Annual Convention: meeting old friends; making new ones; attending some fascinating panels…
The panels prompted my restless mind to explore tangential threads, as they should. Example… Continue reading
It has been a long journey, but here I stand on the verge of publishing my first novel.
I always wanted to write, but my first High School English teacher convinced me I was barely literate. I think he resented me being taller than him, as a later (taller) teacher promoted me from bottom of the class to (almost) pole position.
Too late!
It was my final year of school and my small fantasies had been strangled. Hurrah for education! Continue reading
CELEBRATION !Another hectic month.
June started with a week in the UK, celebrating my middle daughter’s graduation (huge congrats!).
It ended with a week at a German spa!
In between, I managed to start work on my beta-readers’ responses to my novel, “FACES OF JANUS”. Continue reading
I’ve not posted for a while. Today I’m catching-up with a miscellany of stuff, good and bad.
I spent a week in the UK visiting my mother and returned depressed at the toll late-stage Alzheimer’s is having on that wonderful woman. Then I heard that my 11 year old nephew had succumbed to cancer. Continue reading
ALERT: Sit well back from your screen while reading this.
With the onset of the New Year (woot! woot! streamers & champagne), I had wanted to try something new, blogistically speaking. It would have been an occasional series of very brief blogs on my “Work In Progress” (WIP) and the fun associated with being a struggling writer.
The first one was to appear last weekend. However…
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