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MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – AT GOOD RATE

WORK IN PROGRESS Much of the week has been about my science fiction story, and I’ve now completed what I think is the penultimate editing pass before I run it through ProWritingAid. I’m loving what I’ve written and can’t wait for it to get to the alpha readers. I ended up changing the dwarf character […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – SHORT

I’ve decided one of the next key things I’m going to try is writing shorter books, starting with the sci-fi book I’m currently working on. Shorter books are quicker to write, cheaper to edit and have a lower production cost, so should overall make the most profit. As they’re quicker to write it means that […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – BANNED

WORK IN PROGRESS In the space between Christmas and New Year’s Day I managed to complete the final read through of SHATTERED DESTINY, including making a decision over the ending, and now it’s with my wife for proof reading. That should be complete within a couple of weeks then, allowing another three for production, the […]

2023 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

Once again with the year coming to an end I take a look back at the twelve months just gone and set out goals for the next. I had lots of objectives for this year just gone, and I achieved them all. In March I released the complete fifteen episodes of STOPPING POWER as season […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – RENEW

Last weekend saw my two final events of the year and they ended the season on a high. The weekend didn’t break any records but I was very pleased with the results. I now have loads of ideas for changed I want to make for next year, including new and improved author business cards, which […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – PUNCTURED

I’ve been so busy over the last couple of weeks I plain forgot to put my thoughts down in a blog post last week, so here we have two weeks in one go. EVENTS I’ve had three events since the last post. Abingdon. Salisbury. Thame. Abingdon can only be described as epic. Although it started […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – SHEET

It was back to the day job this week and I’ve mostly kept my writing productivity up. I’ve continued to battle with my attempt at a sci-fi time travelling comedy. It’s not funny, at least not yet and I’m already thinking about dropping the comedy part but leaving the bits in that are amusing as […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – GUILt

I’ve been on leave this week, and despite all of the fun things my wife and I have done, I’ve managed to make some decent progress on the time travelling sci-fi adventure. I find it much harder to settle down to write when I’m not in my work routine, and I also feel a deep […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – SCREAM

I’ve started writing the sci-fi / time travelling story which is a new genre to me. I’m writing this to try out the genre to see if it’s for me. If it is then any full story would be an excellent edition to what I can sell at my events. I’ve also started on another […]

MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY – WASTE

With THEIR RIGHT TO VENGEANCE out last week I’ve been keeping busy with getting SHATTERED DESTINY, the final book in the series ready. I’ve now completed my edits, along with some initial formatting and sent it of to my editor. However, I haven’t yet chosen how to end the book, and the series. The first […]