Jess Mountifield's Blog, page 35
May 16, 2012
Historical accuracy
Lately I’ve been doing research for my fourth novel and also with my first historical book out and my second very very close to being out I’ve been thinking a lot about historical accuracy. There’s a lot of history and studying any one section of it well can take an entire lifetime. This can present [...]
May 13, 2012
Trade: A Review
Trade by Tareq Hassan is a book that I picked up as part of an indie reviewers circle. It’s cover and blurb had me totaly suckered into checking the book out. I generally love myself a good spy book, especially if there’s some action in there as well as investigation sort of stuff. Unfortunately that [...]
May 10, 2012
Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 14
For those joining the read part way through you can catch up on old chapters here Their hands touched as Sherdan handed Anya her hot chocolate. She was curled up in his favourite chair with him, sat on the floor beside her, near the roaring fire in the study. Her cheeks glowed and her [...]
May 7, 2012
The Avengers: A Review
Yes I know the film was actually called the marvel avengers assemble in the UK, but that has the be the lamest film name ever so in my opinion it’s really just called the avengers. In short the film was awesome. So awesome that I can hardly find the words. All the leading up to [...]
May 4, 2012
Plotting: How-to
One of the important aspects of writing anything is the plot. It has to engage the readers and make them want to keep turning the pages to ideally not put the book down but at worst make them want to come back to the book later. For me personally I find my plot comes out [...]
May 2, 2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Review
I saw the film of this story a couple of years ago when it came out at the cinema but I’d not read the book. As part of my journey through more classical literature I picked up an ebook copy and read through it rather quickly. It’s not too long and considering it’s age a [...]
May 1, 2012
The Plan: May 12
Last Month I had a very busy but fairly relaxed month last month and pretty much did everything I wanted to so here’s the bullet list. Wrote approx 12k words by hand Typed approx 25k words (including emails and blogs) Spent approx 40 hours marketing and promoting Worked about 40 hours for red feather Read [...]
April 28, 2012
Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 13
Anya sank into the dining chair. She shook with her shock and emotion. Her mind could barely grasp what she had been told. God had asked her to stay but not told her why. She couldn’t quite get her head around being asked to marry a man she didn’t love and give him children. Was [...]
April 27, 2012
Elsa’s Reality book launch
My publisher Red Feather Writing has just published the first ebook by the amazing author Andrew Bellingham so I wanted to share a little about it. Here’s the cover and nice short blurb. Elsa grew up listening to her father’s tales of a witch who nearly destroyed her home town. As strange occurrences start happening [...]
April 25, 2012
Source Code: A Review
This film was lent to me by a friend. I’m not sure I’d even seen a trailor for it just heard about it from other people talking. As a result I didn’t have a clue what to expect, other than something possibly matrix like going by the name. I will say this now, the name [...]
