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May 17, 2016
Radio Ga Ga
No, not LadyGaga. Queen. The rock band. What’s wrong with this generation? Anyway. Radio is not dead.And to prove it, I was recently been on two radio shows! First is Jessie’s POV on 98K. Jessie runs a current affair show during the week, and a fairly-random-but-often-book-related show on weekends. Listen to interview here:http://www.spreaker.com/user/commongr... about 4minutes […]
May 10, 2016
Free copies of Murder In Absentia!
My publisher is now giving free copies of Murder In Absentiaas part of a promotion of a new, Hard Sci-Fi novel by Eric Klein. Follow this link to find out more – and you could get a complimentary copy of Murder In Absentia!
May 2, 2016
Sales Model of an Indie Author
This article was originally posted on my Quora blog. I’m posting andsummarising my experiences in writing andmarketing my novels, both as notes to myself and as advice from the trenches for other budding authors. One of the worst aspects of becoming an author, is marketing your own book. I mean, if I was some kind […]
April 28, 2016
Podcasts!
No, I haven’t started podcasting. However Murder In Absentia is starting to appear in more and more podcasts around the, err, not ether but Internet. The first one was by Joshua Calkins-Treworgy a few weeks ago. Then came Brian Basham with Night Reads, reading aloud the first chapter of Murder In Absentia. The latest podcast […]
April 26, 2016
Writer’s Wednesday: Murder in Absentia, Assaph Mehr
One of the more enjoyable interviews I have done for a while, courtesy of Amanda Blount. Head over to her blog for the full interview: Writer’s Wednesday: Murder in Absentia, Assaph Mehr Thisweek, as promised, Writer’s Wednesday explores the careers and writing paths of two different Australian author’s. Assaph Mehr, author of Murder in Absentia, […]
April 20, 2016
The effects of not enough coffee
As any one who had ever had to deal with with writers and authors knows, coffee is our life’s blood. We need it to function, to wake up the muses. And, again as anyone who’ve met and read blogs about indie authors know, we also tend to interview each other, challenge each other, and generally […]
April 4, 2016
This Week in Review(s)
This has been one awesome week for Murder In Absentia! Three awesome new reviews were published – plus the first podcast review! For anyone who doesn’t know, I have this three-step plan of making writing my full-time job: Publish Book Get Movie Deal Buy Small Island So while a podcast is notquite a movie deal, […]
April 1, 2016
Cursed
A short, somewhat romantic, Felix mystery. The kind of thing that keep him in business, and his wine and fish-sauce stocked. It calls on his unique set of skills, for those discerning customers with off-beat problems. My clients usually have hopes. When one contacts a detective, they have certain expectations, an anticipation of resolution to […]
March 22, 2016
Research and Experimental Archaeology
I get asked often about the research I do for my novels. Even when I’m not asked, I volunteer information… Besides reading proper history books (mostly by modern historians, but the occasional translated original source as well), I particularly like what might be termed “experimental archaeology”. These are people with a keen interest, that review […]
March 16, 2016
Top 10!
Well, OK, Top 11 – but I’m sure that’s just because I blinked when it hit top 10! So now Murder In Absentia is one of the top selling books in the Roman Fantasy category, and fairly much up there in the more general Historical Fantasy category. Pretty exciting for a first-time author who only […]
