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June 2, 2011
Camel On An Ashtray: A Review
Camel On An Ashtray by A.S. Anand is a novella on Amazon Kindle for only $1. I was asked to review this book in exchange for the author reviewing my book. Camel On An Ashtray synopsis from Amazon Sonell descends into a Mayfair nightclub filled with apprehension about his social company and himself. The next [...]
June 1, 2011
The Plan: June 11
Last month's progress Well they say things don't always go exactly according to plan and this month they definitely didn't. I didn't manage to make anymore tshirt designs, didn't work on the graphic novels or my language and still don't quite have my print version of the first book's cover done. What I did do, [...]
May 30, 2011
The whole writing process laid bare
I've had a regular slot in my blog schedule where I share something I've been doing recently and for the most part this has varied. I have been considering with book 3 that it might be fun to post everything here as I go. Not only would it be a great motivator for me to [...]
May 27, 2011
Pirates Of The Caribbean, On Stranger Tides: A Review
As I've already said on my blog recently, I am a big fan of these types of films and books. There is something I've always liked about adventures at sea. I went to see On Stranger Tides the day it came out here in the UK. The first thing I was struck by, as I [...]
May 25, 2011
Word of Mouth
As some of you readers are well aware I've been promoting my book a lot more lately. I've found that so far approximately 50% of my sales can be traced back to a post, comment or status by me somewhere on the internet. While I'm thankful to see my hard work paying off I know [...]
May 24, 2011
Editing Manuscripts
Once a book, film script or other piece of work is finished it's very rarely in a perfect state for selling. There is always something that needs editing or changing slightly, and those pesky spelling mistakes not picked up by spell checker because they are still a word. There are a lot of indie authors [...]
May 21, 2011
The Fairy Godmother's Guide To Finance For Couples: A Review
The Fairy Godmother's Guide To Finance For Couples by Lisa Deckert is a non fiction book I was requested to read as part of a review swap with the author. I don't normally read non fiction but seeing as my husband and I are a fairly newly married couple and I know a lot of [...]
May 19, 2011
Pirates!
I've always been mildly fascinated with pirates, I love the adventure and romantic aspect of them. Needless to say I also really liked The Pirates of the Caribbean films. It was only natural really that my first novel should have some in (even if they are the badguys in my book). Last night I, like [...]
May 18, 2011
Entropia: A Distraction
For those few people that know me they know I really love my social computer games. Mostly MMO's. Entropia is one of those MMO's that I mostly play when I feel the need to socialise but I don't actually want to physically leave my office or I wish to work at the same time (I [...]
May 15, 2011
Never Saw It Coming: A Review
Never Saw It Coming by Mike Jordan is a sci-fi action book available on amazon kindle. I was asked to review this book by the author in exchange for them reviewing my book. Never Saw It Coming synopsis from Amazon Everyone knows someone like Tim Finnegan. Just a guy, barely scraping by. Someone with too [...]
