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 …
Tag: writing
Happy News/Strange News
Happy News #1 Had a great time at the UK's annual Sci-Fi and Fantasy Convention (Follycon) in Harrogate. Met some old friends and made some new ones. Learned a lot and had a few new ideas sparked. Delighted to say that my friend David Allan got his first publishing contract. Congrats, David! Happy News #2 …
A Christmas Tail
Wait! This is not turning into a cat-thread. It's a one-off, I swear! Let me explain... We're currently looking after a cat for one of our daughters but had to spend Christmas in the UK. So we asked a friend to cat-sit. After a few days, text messages began to arrive from the cat. Clearly, …
Back Home
Turning Worlds So much catching up to do now my I'm back home! The world just keeps on turning, even if I'm not watching it. (Quantum physicists are invited to comment below on that observation.) Distribution Channels My novels' distribution network continues to grow effortlessly! I use the Mention app to notify me if my name or my …
Road Trip, Trilogies & Good News
Some of you might have noticed a long silence from me. Many will be grateful. But now I'm back! I just spent the whole of October on a road trip covering New England in the Fall and a batch of Canadian cities. Exhausted! If you want to visit New England in the Fall, you just have …
PARADISI CHRONICLES & NEWS
NEW MUST-HAVE PARADISI CHRONICLES RELEASES (details below) As my regular readers know, my JANUS PARADISI series takes place in an open-source sci-fi universe. A what? Essentially, a group of authors agreed on the backstory and main features of a time and place where all action will occur, then write their own stories within those parameters. These stories …
Snippets
KINDLE/NOOK AND NOVELS GIVEAWAY COMPETITION The contest I announced last week is now over and the winners' names will be released next week. So keep those fingers crossed. REVERSALS (Apologies to followers who received a draft copy of this post, sent in error last week. And this contains an update.) It's well known that book reviews are important to readers making …
Faces Of Janus: 100% 5 star!
Reader Reviews With Janus Challenge straining at the release leash as March approaches, I'm starting to gather 5-star reviews for Faces of Janus (the first in my Janus Paradisi series) Samples of kind words from readers... I should have read this sooner! 😀 Intrigue, romance, fight between the classes. And for me a small kinship …
Beyond Beginnings: Sequels
A Good Year End In November 2016 I became a published novel author, building on my years as a short story writer. Where do you go from there? You write the sequel. Actually, I started writing the sequel long before I published "Faces of Janus". It's already gone out to beta readers, for publication in Spring 2017. My …
What’s With Wattpad?
I heard a few good things about Wattpad during 2014. Wikipedia (December 20, 2016) says... "Wattpad is an online storytelling community where users post written works such as articles, stories, fan fiction, and poems, either through the website or the mobile app... As of April 2014: [Yes, 2014] 85% of its traffic and usage comes from …
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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