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January 19, 2016
Tie-in Tuesday: Public Lending Right loans - 2014/2015
It's rather appropriate that this particular blog post about my PLR earnings for the last year should appear on a Tie-in Tuesday, since the books that boost my income the most, thanks to PLR, are tie-in titles.
It turns out this is my ninth year of doing this, so here's the list of my top ten most library-loaned books for July 2014 - June 2015 (with last year's placings in brackets):
1. (2) Monstrous Missions (Feb 12)2. (5) The Great Moshling Egg (Dec 13)3. (3) Zack Binspin (Mar 13)4. (1) The Night Before Twistmas (Sep 12)5. (4) The Horror of Howling Hill (Mar 08)6. (6) Moshi Music Stars (Jan 13)7. (7) Crisis on Coruscant (Jan 10)8. (8) Stormslayer (Sep 09)9. (12) What is Myrrh Anyway? (Oct 08)10. (9) Moshi Monsters: Moshipedia (Nov 13)
5 Moshi Monsters titles, 2 Doctor Who titles, 1 Star Wars title, 1 Fighting Fantasy gamebook, and 1 non-fiction book.
My most borrowed Fighting Fantasy gamebook was clearly Stormslayer , and my most borrowed Pax Britannia novel (or rather omnibus) was The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus Vol.1 .
It turns out this is my ninth year of doing this, so here's the list of my top ten most library-loaned books for July 2014 - June 2015 (with last year's placings in brackets):
1. (2) Monstrous Missions (Feb 12)2. (5) The Great Moshling Egg (Dec 13)3. (3) Zack Binspin (Mar 13)4. (1) The Night Before Twistmas (Sep 12)5. (4) The Horror of Howling Hill (Mar 08)6. (6) Moshi Music Stars (Jan 13)7. (7) Crisis on Coruscant (Jan 10)8. (8) Stormslayer (Sep 09)9. (12) What is Myrrh Anyway? (Oct 08)10. (9) Moshi Monsters: Moshipedia (Nov 13)5 Moshi Monsters titles, 2 Doctor Who titles, 1 Star Wars title, 1 Fighting Fantasy gamebook, and 1 non-fiction book.
My most borrowed Fighting Fantasy gamebook was clearly Stormslayer , and my most borrowed Pax Britannia novel (or rather omnibus) was The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus Vol.1 .
January 18, 2016
Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu at SF Signal
The very kind people over at SF Signal allowed me to write a piece about the Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu Kickstarter and you can read it for yourself here.
Thought for the Day
“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”~ H P Lovecraft
I know the feeling.
January 15, 2016
Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu - New Add-ons Added!
If you back the
Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu Kickstarter
, you don't only get the chance to own a very special limited edition of the genre mash-up anthology of the year, you also get the chance to buy some very special add-ons.
First of all there's the set of Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu postcards by Nicole Wykes...
Then there's the chance to have yourself immortalised as a caricature by the very talented Ms Wykes...
And then there's the chance to have your portrait painted by the amazing Kate Burmak (a.k.a. Ekaterina Maximovich)...
So don't delay - back today!
First of all there's the set of Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu postcards by Nicole Wykes...
Then there's the chance to have yourself immortalised as a caricature by the very talented Ms Wykes...
And then there's the chance to have your portrait painted by the amazing Kate Burmak (a.k.a. Ekaterina Maximovich)...
So don't delay - back today!
January 14, 2016
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Thought for the Day
“From our positions as individual creators, whether of fiction or non-fiction, we authors see a landscape occupied by several large interests, some of them gathering profits in the billions, some of them displaying a questionable attitude to paying tax, some of them colonising the Internet with projects whose reach is limitless and whose attitude to creators’ rights is roughly that of the steamroller to the ant.“It’s a daunting landscape, far more savage and hostile to the author than any we’ve seen before. But one thing hasn’t changed, which is the ignored, unacknowledged, but complete dependence of those great interests on us and on our talents and on the work we do in the quiet of our solitude. They have enormous financial and political power, but no creative power whatsoever. Whether we’re poets, historians, writers of cookery books, novelists, travel writers, that comes from us alone. We originate the material they exploit.”
~ Philip Pullman
January 9, 2016
Short Story Saturday: Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu and the BFS Awards 2016
22 days from now, the Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu Kickstarter will conclude at 1.00pm GMT on Monday 1st February.
We are currently £1,400 from the initial funding goal, with 120+ backers, but, as they say, the more the merrier!* Once we reach the initial goal we will then unlock the first of the Stretch Goals, which will be to produce some awesome artwork for the book.
Over 400 people backed my first successful Kickstarter. Over 200 backed Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland . Seeing as this is going to be a book featuring mash-ups of Shakespeare's greatest plays and H P Lovecraft's most terrifying creations, I would hope we could attract more backers than those two other projects put together, but it relies on people helping to spread the word and let other potential backers know that the project is currently live on Kickstarter.
In other short story news, the British Fantasy Awards 2016 are currently seeking suggestions for the long lists. If you look, you will notice that both SHARKPUNK and GAME OVER are on the list for Best Anthology, and that the short stories featured within all feature under the Best Short Story category.**
Whether any of them get any further than the long list remains to be seen, so watch this space...
* The same goes for Amazon reviews!
** Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland also appears under the Best Fantasy Novel, but I doubt it will get any further than that. There isn't a category for Best Adventure Gamebook. Maybe there should be...
We are currently £1,400 from the initial funding goal, with 120+ backers, but, as they say, the more the merrier!* Once we reach the initial goal we will then unlock the first of the Stretch Goals, which will be to produce some awesome artwork for the book.
Over 400 people backed my first successful Kickstarter. Over 200 backed Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland . Seeing as this is going to be a book featuring mash-ups of Shakespeare's greatest plays and H P Lovecraft's most terrifying creations, I would hope we could attract more backers than those two other projects put together, but it relies on people helping to spread the word and let other potential backers know that the project is currently live on Kickstarter.
In other short story news, the British Fantasy Awards 2016 are currently seeking suggestions for the long lists. If you look, you will notice that both SHARKPUNK and GAME OVER are on the list for Best Anthology, and that the short stories featured within all feature under the Best Short Story category.**
Whether any of them get any further than the long list remains to be seen, so watch this space...
* The same goes for Amazon reviews!
** Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland also appears under the Best Fantasy Novel, but I doubt it will get any further than that. There isn't a category for Best Adventure Gamebook. Maybe there should be...
January 4, 2016
Thought for the Day
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." ~ Agatha Christie
January 2, 2016
Short Story Saturday: Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu featured on Kickstarter today!
My current Kickstarter campaign -
Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu
- is the featured project on the KS Publishing page today.
Why not check it out for yourself, pledge your support, and then tell the world?
Why not check it out for yourself, pledge your support, and then tell the world?
