Linda Acaster's Blog, page 30

How do I upload a book to Kindle?

Oh, so simple a question, yet the answer is so fraught with difficulties.

Having been faced with this question three times in as many weeks, I decided to write a short piece that I could attach to an email and send if asked again - but of course there is no short answer for so many elements depend one on another.

What I ended up with is longer than even I anticipated, so long in fact that I've

Guest Blogging Today

I don't know about guest-blogging, I should concentrate on my own. Where did the month go to? Well, for a start, I had a holiday: a river cruise down the Rhine from Cologne (Koln) to Strasbourg. I was very good and took with me my Notebook, current chapter and short-term outline. I was even better than good and never opened any of it. There are times when a break IS a rest, and much needed. I've

Fame - A Double-Edged Blade

Which writer doesn’t occasionally dream of acclaim - or at least fantastic sales? Of sitting at a book signing running out of ink for your pen, or taking eager questions for an hour after a half hour talk? Fame, however, is not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s been quite a week. In a scene that could have come from one of her own Crime novels, writer Val McDermid saw her ink-attacker convicted of

Goodreads Giveaway Complete!

I was both amazed and humbled that 1058 people put in for the Goodreads draw for a paperback copy of Reading A Writer's Mind: Exploring Short Fiction - First Thought to Finished Story. Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to enter.

 

All copies are now winging their way to the twelve lucky winners, and I am very pleased that I decided to throw caution, and funds, to the wind to open up

Pirates Ahoy - Phishing in Progress

Just as a friend’s Twitter account was hacked by what looked like Eastern European “lovelies”, I found my Native American Beneath The Shining Mountains had been pirated.‘Heck,’ said Hubby, ‘they must think it’s good!’I won’t dwell on my response to that, suffice to say that he’s recovering. I’ll just muse that perhaps up to now I’ve been lucky. I determined to send a take-down notice via the site

GoodReads Giveaway: 'Reading A Writer's Mind...'

As part of the launch initiative for the paperback of Reading A Writer's Mind: Exploring Short Fiction - First Thought to Finished Story, for the whole of June the title is entered into the GoodReads Giveaway.




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Fantasy Spotlight - Torc of Moonlight

It's all go! Quite by chance I've found myself, or at least Torc of Moonlight, featured on Andrew Butcher's Butcher's Blog. He's just started a listing for all subgenres of Paranormal Fantasy and the novel is one of his first.



There must be something in the air as this comes hard on the heels of a cracking review just listed on SantsRants:


"...Torc
of Moonlight is no light snack it's a

Guest Blogging at Southern Writers

As part of the Reading A Writer's Mind... launch, today I'm guesting at Southern Writers Magazine talking about creating characters of depth and how to put this across in the subtext of the fiction these characters inhabit.

Drop by and leave a comment or ask a question. If you need it, the full link is:
http://southernwritersmagazine.blogsp...

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Launch Day! "Reading A Writer's Mind..." Paperback

Yay! It's launch day for the paperback edition of Reading A Writer's Mind: Exploring Short Fiction - First Thought To Finished Story. It joins the ebook which has been out some time.  



As you may have guessed, the book does what it says in its title. Here's the blurb:



From initial idea, through the story itself, to a commentary explaining
the decisions made during its creation, this

A Need to Read for Pleasure

"Reading for pleasure at the age of fifteen is a strong factor in determining future social mobility..." - so starts an article by Jonathan Douglas, Director of the Nationl Literary Trust in a recent edition of the Telegraph Weekend.



The bottom line is that those who read for pleasure, rather than due to the goad of education, are nurturing an inherent human inquisitiveness, a willingness to