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Tick Tock!

Hey all! So there wasn’t a blog at the start of the week. I had an assessment to do for my Open University course. It seemed to suck all my time and energy, but I’m sitting down now to write a blog. I’d just like to start by mentioning Twitter. Yesterday I had the great pleasure at meeting many really friendly and nice people. Usually when I make connections on Twitter it’s just a couple of tweets but yesterday was awesome. Lots of conversations going on and people I’ll follow via their blogs and writing. Thank you all for showing me Twitter can be great!

Some of you may remember that I have my novel, Welcome To Carrion City under consideration with a publisher. Well, it’s now been seven months since they received the full manuscript. I had a look on their website and it does in fact say that they can take 7-9 months to reply. But I decided to sent them a polite and friendly email just to see if they could confirm they were still looking at the novel or not. I think this was a bit of a gamble but there’s not much to lose by doing this. If they’re not interested, there are others to send it to or even self-publish the sucker. Yesterday, I also submitted it to another publisher. Now there’s a bit of a debate with whether you should send your manuscript out to just one publisher at a time or many. For me, I feel it’s unreasonable to assume a writer will wait months for a single rejection before moving on. Others may differ with this but that’s how it works for me. The publisher I sent it to has a much faster turnaround time and I should hear back within three weeks. I’m not expecting much but it doesn’t hurt to try. At the moment my novella writing is receiving more of my attention than my novels.

I’ve actually managed to have more time with my Kindle this week. It’s such an awesome feeling to not be reading academic material. There are very few things I like better than getting a cup of tea and sitting down with my Kindle. Wow, that makes me sound boring as hell! My book is up to number 2 in the weekly top ten chart on @Indieauthorland. I’m so happy with this. Again, if you’ve not read my interview, check it out here http://www.indieauthorland.com/archives/3250 I’ve also got a couple more interviews coming up in the next month or so. When I know more, I’ll post about it.

Only The Dead: An African War now has 3 five star reviews. One on Amazon.com, one on Amazon.co.uk and one on Goodreads. I couldn’t be more happy with the feedback I’m getting for it, though I am prepared for some negative reviews. Every writer gets some. So I’d just like to remind anyone who has bought the book if you’ve finished it and enjoyed it, please put a review up on Amazon and/or Goodreads. It doesn’t have to be a huge review just enough to tell others what you thought. Reviews are primarily what encourages others to take a chance and buy a book. So please, just take a few minutes from your day and pop one on Amazon.

Well I hope you all have an awesome weekend. I think I may venture out to the cinema this weekend. Until next time.

That Friday reading!

Hey all! Many of you will notice that last Friday there wasn’t a small post. Well there was, but I deleted it after posting. It was about my favourite author and how I had become disillusioned with his more recent work. Why did I delete it? Well I got to thinking how much his work has entertained and encourage me. For that reason alone, I just didn’t feel right shooting flak at him. I’m always saying that writing is subjective, what novels of his I didn’t really care for, others will love. Either way, I’ll be buying his newest book even though I’m pretty sure I’ll be left slightly disappointed by it. The writer is Raymond E. Feist. He’s written some classics in the fantasy genre, and I re-read many of his books once a year. That’s how good they are. If anyone was asking me for recommendations I would suggest reading anything from Magician to the end of the Serpent War series. Perhaps miss out Prince of the Blood as I found it to be slightly worse than the others. Still, he is my favourite author and I can’t recommend his earlier writing enough.

So the paperback is out. I had a little issue with the cover being too dark. Hopefully this is now sorted and the details are more visible. Thanks, Stew! Aside from that minor hiccup, I’m really pleased with how the paperback came out. I was more than a little excited to get my hands on it. The sales have been pretty strong and the paperback climbed really high in the Amazon bestseller charts. As always I have to wait for people to finish my book and then hopefully start to review it on Amazon and Goodreads. These are big selling points so hopefully soon I’ll have some for Only The Dead: An African War.

I’ve added a fair number of books to my Kindle this week. I don’t get as much time to read as I used to but they should keep me going for the next few weeks or so. I like to read a fiction book along with a non-fiction. I’ve just about finished Dracula Rekindled and will soon be moving onto Fourth Crisis: The Battle for Taiwan by Peter von Bleichert. And my non-fiction choice is The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 by Andrew Lambert. I’ll be sure to let you know what I think of them. Hope you all have a great weekend. Until next time.

The first Amazon.com review

Hey all. So it’s happened, I received my first review on Amazon.com yesterday . . . and it was an awesome one. 5- star. I couldn’t be more happy with it. There’s always that fear lurking as you wonder what the first review will be. I was so happy when I read it. Not only because it means that someone has actually finished the book, but because they enjoyed it. It was even more awesome that the reader didn’t usually read in the genre but the title convinced them to take the chance. Hopefully there will be more to follow. I’m fully prepared to get negative reviews, too. It’s all a part of being a writer. You can’t please everyone. If anyone wants to see the review just follow this link

So how’s my writing been going? Well pretty good. OTD:pt 2 is coming along nicely. I’ve actually been planning out the bare bones of the entire story and I’m really excited with where it’s going and how it’ll end. Now I just need to get on with writing. With Angel, my stand alone novella, I’ve decided to try something different. Instead of actual chapters, it will be split into seven sections, each containing a day in which the story takes place. This might work, or I might change it back to traditional chapters. Speaking of chapters, I was thinking about how with my novellas I don’t name the chapters, but with my novel writing I do. I didn’t really think about this when writing my novella. What do people prefer? Named chapters or just chapter headings?

Only The Dead: An African War is still in @IndieAuthorLand top ten books. I’m really happy about this. The interview was fun and allowed me to really think what I wanted to convey to potential readers about the book. The site is a great resource for indie authors. Please stop by and have a read here

This week I’ve been listening to a lot of Porcupine Tree. Espeically the album The Incident. It’s really awesome. If you’ve not heard of Porcupine Tree you should really check them out. They’re a prog rock outfit who have some amazing songs. I first discovered them when Steven Wilson produced Opeth’s Blackwater Park album. They are a great band with a unique sound. You should have a listen to them.

I’ve still got to take a new picture for my profile. I don’t know why I’m finding it such a chore, but I am. Hopefully this week I’ll have a new one.

My friend Kev sent me a picture this morning. He received his paperback copy of Only The Dead: An African War. He’s awesome for doing this!

Hope you’re all having a great day. Until next time.

Success!

Hey all. Hope everyone is doing great. So it’s time for another blog. As the title would suggest, there’s been a small development. The paperback issue has been resolved. Thanks to Xander (@DraculaRekindled) for clearing up a little confusion I had with Createspace. It turns out that I didn’t actually need the number from the IRS to place the paperback for sale, but I do need it if I want to keep all profits on any American sales my book may make. So I went ahead and completed the setup so the paperback should be available from Amazon and the Createspace eStore in 5-7 working days. Exciting. I get my authors copy soon. I’m really excited to actually hold a physical copy of my book. I’ll be sure to snap a picture of it when it is in my grubby hands

So again I’ve augmented my writing strategy for my next few works. I’ve decided to attempt to write two novellas and have a bash at the sequel to Welcome To Carrion City. Many writers will tell you that there are days where you just don’t feel like writing or encounter the old advisory of writers block. My reasoning for starting three works is that if there are days where I don’t fancy writing my current work in progress, I’ll have another couple to jump into that might seem easier to write at the time.

I found an old disc with some of my pre-college writing files on it. Wow, I’ve come a long way. It was quite interesting to see how much I’ve improved. I happened on the first chapter of a fantasy novel I wrote when I was 22 or so. The story is one I plan to insert into my planned fantasy series. I came up with the original idea for this years ago, when I was about 16-17 but just never felt I had the skill to tackle it. Now I’ve been toying with the idea and have actually started the first chapter. I probably won’t write much more of it now, but it’s nice to have a proper start. The series title will be “These Craven Times” and the first book will be “The Crowns of Conquered Kings.” Perhaps I’ll blog about the plot in a future post. When people ask me about the plot, I still have trouble rationalising it as there’s a lot to be decided. Like I said it’s not my priority when it comes to writing, but it’s nice to have a writing goal and a fantasy series is one of mine.

I’m still working on getting the word out about my book. It’s a slow process and I’ve not been as active as I should have been on this. I’ve read that a lot of authors wait until they have more than one work available before they start the advertising process in earnest. I like this idea as a writer with more than one work will surely appeal more to a reader. Or that’s my thinking. I’ll slowly keep working on Twitter and try and do more interviews to get the word out, then when my next work is available, I’ll perhaps throw a little money toward the advertising process. It’s all a learning experience.

So I did an interview with Indie Author Land (www.indieauthorland.com) here’s the link if you’d like to read it http://www.indieauthorland.com/archives/3250 Only The Dead: An African War got to number 3 in their weekly chart. I was really happy with this. I really admire sites that want to shine a light on indie authors. There’s so much great writing out there just waiting to be discovered. I always feel like indie authors are given a bad reputation by some of the dross published on Amazon. This site is a great way to discover new books and I’d urge you all to check it out. Who knows, you might just discover your new favourite book. And I like to give a shout out to books I’ve enjoyed so if you’re looking for something awesome to read, I would suggest Wrath by Kirkus MacGowan (@KirkusMacGowan). It’s an awesome read.

Well that’s about it from me for now. I would like to say I was going to write some more, but the truth is I’m off to get a cup of tea and watch a little tv. Until next time

The end of the module is near

Hello all. Just thought I would write a short blog as per usual for Friday. So what’s been happening with me? Well, my current counselling module comes to an end on Monday. It’s the final class until September. I’m pretty gutted about this as I really love that course, but the plus side is that I should have more time to write. I’m aiming for the next OTD instalment to be out by September. We shall see, plans change but that’s what I am aiming for. Tonight I completed the last small assessment for my counselling course. It was a self reflection assessment, which in theory, should be easy but writing about myself was harder than I thought. Anyway, all done and dusted. I can perhaps enjoy the weekend now. I’ll try not to think about the looming Open University assessment that’s coming fast.

So the paperback release has been stalled. Facepalm! It turns out that I need a tax number to gain full royalties from sales in America. I could rant about Americans but I won’t Now this can be resolved pretty quickly. If I stayed in the States I could do it all online. But since I stay in Scotland I have the option of filling out forms and sending them off and awaiting a reply . . . 4 weeks. No thanks. I can fax it and get it sorted within a week. Again, no fax machine. I didn’t even realise people still used them. So my only real option is to make a call. I’m dreading this. Partly because I don’t really know what I am asking for. And partly because I’m sure it won’t go as smoothly as they say. Nevertheless I am resolved to getting the paperback released asap. I’ll call on Tuesday.

As for my writing. Well the good news is that I have started two of my next novellas, but I’ve had so much work for university that they have taken a backseat. I hope next week to get more writing done for them both. It’s been so long since I played a video game, it’s not like me. Maybe I should treat myself to a new game. Any suggestions xbox or pc let me know. Hope you all have an awesome weekend. Until next time.

Don’t fire until you see the whites of the pages

So some of you may have noticed that there were no blogs last week. The reason . . . food poisoning! I endured a week of hell due to a dodgy sandwich. I won’t be eating pre-made sandwiches from now on.

Good news on the paperback front. Today I finalised the online proof. It all looks awesome and now I just need to visit the bank and set up my royalties account and things will be ready to go. There was a small issue with the resolution of the cover image, but that’s being looked into. By all accounts, the paperback should be available to buy within the week. More to follow when I know for sure.

My first interview went live on Indie Author Land today. For those who would like to read it, find it here. It was really exciting to be interviewed. I hope that if you read it you like it and understand a little bit more about my book, Only The Dead: An African War. I’m still working on marketing my book. It really is a tough slog and it could easily suck a lot of time out of my schedule if I let it. I’m trying to balance my time between university work, publicising OTD, and writing the sequel.

I’ve decided that I’ll be trying something new, writing two novellas at the same time. I’ve never been a fan of writing two stories at the same time. I much prefer to write and complete one then move onto the next, but this can be time consuming so I thought I’d try something different. I’m aiming for a chapter for each in seven days. I’ll let you all know how this goes. It might fail before it really takes off but I’m willing to give it a go. The other novella I’m writing is so different to what I usually write, it’s a bit of an experiment in itself but I think the story is good. I’ll just have to work hard to not have any explosions or gunfire in it! It’s basically a reworking of a short story I wrote several years ago which I always intended to expand on. I hesitate to call it a love story, but it is, and with a hint of thriller about it. I’m still struggling with a name for it but it has a working title of “Angel” for no other reason than that is the nickname that the two characters have for each other. Depending on how I get on writing it I might post a small extract on my blog.

I’ve started speaking to another author via Twitter. Xander (@DraculaReturns). He’s given me a lot of advice on marketing which I’ll be taking on board and applying to my own novel. I’ve just bought his book and I’m impressed with what I’ve read so far. You can find his novel here. I would recommend it so if you’re looking for something fresh to read, check this out.

A little bit more self-promotion here. Only The Dead: An African War is now on Goodreads and just received its first review. 5 star! Check it out here. It’s really encouraging to have such a strong first review. Hopefully this will help more people pick it up.

I thought I would leave you all with a meme that has been making me laugh so much of late. I really love memes, they make me laugh so much, especially this one. It was my friend Kev who shared it. Hope you all find it as funny as I did.

I’m off to do some writing. Hope you all enjoy the blog. Until next time

Publication Achieved . . . now what?

 

The beer was drunk, and very tasty it was, too!  Thanks, Rebecca.  As some of you may know, my novella OTD: An African War was published and stormed up the best seller chart reaching 10,078.  Not bad for over two million books on there.  It was really exciting to see it up there, on Amazon for the first time.  Of course getting it published was only half the battle. Now it’s up there, I can’t just rest on my laurels expecting sales, I need to actively go out and publicise the sucker.  This is where the real difference between indie publishing and traditional publishing hits home.  I don’t have a big company to fight my corner, gaining the book attention.  I need to do this alone, and to be honest, it’s not the easiest task.  How do you convince someone to buy a book, by an author they’ve never heard of?  I’ll be honest, there’s a lot of terrible writing on Amazon, books that have not been edited or reviewed.  Not long after I got my Kindle, I went through a bit of a download craze, getting books left right and centre.  Some of the worst writing I’ve ever come across, so bad, I couldn’t finish it even for the sake of the story.  Now, I always make sure to download a sample chapter to make sure I’m not disappointed with a purchase. 

 

Anyway, getting people to buy.  Of course, the best thing is reviews on Amazon for my book.  So if anyone reading finishes my book, be a hero and put a review up.  Also, word of mouth goes a long way.  Recommendations from friends is always good. Aside from that, it’ll be an uphill struggle.  I don’t have the money to pour into advertising.  So what have I been doing?  Well I did my first interview with a website, I’ll let you know when it’ll be available when I know.  I’ve got another interview lined up with a very popular blog.  I’m pretty excited about that one.  There’s always Facebook to get the word out, but I don’t like to be one of those people who keep pestering friends, begging them to “like” this page or that.  If people want to find me, I’m there.  Then there’s Twitter.  I’ve had Twitter for some time now, and didn’t use it much, but I’m starting to see the benefit of it.  I’ve followed some promising indie authors, exchanged a few tweets with them.  It’s all fun and a nice way to meet people in the same position as myself.  Then I came across indie authors who had 54,000 followers on Twitter.  I thought, wow, their books must be awesome. But after a little investigating, it wasn’t always the case. Sure there are many great indie authors with a ton of followers, then there are the writers who use Twitter as an automated advert service. If you Tweet them, you rarely hear back.  I know of a couple of programs that let you add followers automatically, building your “brand.”  But seriously, what’s the point in Twitter if people only reach your computer and not you? This sounds like a rant, and it kind of is one.  Here’s the thing, if I ever become popular enough that people want to tweet me, I’ll always make the effort to reply. Sure, there might be times when I can’t, but these will be rare.  Twitter is meant to connect people, not just an automated advert service.  So yeah, I’m looking to become more active with Twitter, just not in a “let my computer handle it all” way. 

 

There are a couple of other wee projects in the pipeline for advertising that’s being worked on, but I’ve no real idea when these will be unleashed on you all.  It’s a bit of an experiment, could be fantastic, then again, could be utter turd!    

 

So I thought I’d update you with what I’ve read this week.  I met Aderyn Wood on Twitter (@AderynWood).  She was nice, friendly and most important, a real person.  Her first publication The Viscount’s Son is a short novelette.  It’s a wonderful read that you could complete over a couple of evenings.  It’s not the genre that I usually read in, but heck, once I started, I couldn’t stop! Very strong writing and I will be picking up her next work when it’s ready for publication.  A writer to watch out for in the future. Take it from me, you should check it out, and at only £0.77 it’s a bargain.

 

I had a counselling essay to write this week.  It was a nightmare but I got there in the end.  Well I got there a couple of hours ago.  I always work better when I know the deadline is closing in.  Tomorrow, I’ve got the odious task of watching a recording of myself conducting a mock counselling session.  I need to reflect back on this.  I hate seeing/hearing myself on camera.  It’s got to be done, I suppose.  After that, I’ll actually have time to write some of the next novella.  This has been on hold for a few weeks and I’m actually looking forward to going back and writing it.

 

I thought I’d leave you all with a song that’s been stuck in my head for a while now.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you,  Primal Rock Rebellion – No Place Like Home

 

Thanks for reading along.  I hope you all enjoyed.  Until next time    

 

The Publication Beer

So I said I would post a smaller blog today so here it is. Things are moving fast for OTD: An African War. The good news is that I’ve uploaded it to Amazon and completed all the details. I’m thinking of publishing it on Friday! Exciting stuff. The bad news, well there’s not really any other than I am extremely nervous. OTD: An African war has been read many times, by many people already. There have been no real negative comments, only useful suggestions and critiques. Most of these come from my writer friends. But as we all know, writing is subjective, what one person loves reading, another will absolutely hate. I’m prepared for some negative reviews of the book, can’t please everyone. It’s just so nerve wracking to put something you’ve worked so hard on out into the world and await a reaction. Good or bad, many sales or few, it’s all an experience that I’ll learn from and will help make the next book better.

This is the Publishing Beer! My good friend Rebecca @BeerBitchBecca (who is currently reading OTD) and I have known each other for many years (she likes zombies as much as I do) We meet up for a beverage or two and something to eat when we can. I’m not sure if she’ll remember this or not but on one occasion, she bought me a new beer to try and I said to her, half-jokingly, that I’d keep it until I was published. And to my surprise, I actually did. Now, OTD is so close to getting published I’m eyeing up the beer. As you can see from the picture, I have my Homer Simpson bottle opener at the ready. I’ve been so used to seeing it sitting in the fridge, it’ll actually feel weird to drink it. I just thought I would share this little story with you all. It just feels so surreal that I’m actually going to have my first novella published. Exciting and nerve-wracking. I’m sure the beer will help with those nerves. Until next time. Cheers!

The path to indie and other musings

Hello all.  So today I’ve decided to talk about why I decided to publish indie and also why I wrote the  OTD series as novellas.  I’ll tackle the indie publishing first.  Here goes.

 

When I completed my first novel, Welcome To Carrion City, I thought it was awesome, and nobody could tell me different.  That is, until I sent it out to agents and publishers.  Don’t get me wrong, the story is good, and the writing was not too bad, but it needed a lot of polishing before it should really have been sent out.  I jumped the gun a little, excited to finally have a work of mine out seeking publication or representation.  So I stopped sending it out, and decided to put it through an extensive review and editing process.  Now, it’s something I can truly be proud of.  A novel that I think is well written and has an interesting story.

 

When Only The Dead (OTD) was finished I thought about sending it to editors and publishers, just like I did with Carrion City (CC).  This time, OTD had been thoroughly edited and was tight.  Then I remembered my previous experience.  Half of the publishers I sent CC to didn’t even reply.  The others I got the standard letter informing me that my work was not quite what they were looking for.  All well and good, and pretty much what I expected.  It was the length of time that each submission took to get a yes or no.  Over a year to reply.  I didn’t have that kind of time for OTD.  I want it out there for people to read.  The second reason is that when I searched for publishers that accepted novella submissions most of them turned out to be small independent publishing houses. These are well and fine if that’s what you’re looking for.  Sometimes it’s good to have a publishers name to your work.  For me, I didn’t really think they could offer much in the way of support for the OTD series.  So I decided to go it solo.  Thankfully, I had a good friend, and awesome writer Kirkus MacGowen  http://www.kirkusmacgowan.info/  to help me through the process as he had gone through it all before (and become an Amazon bestseller).  I have an amazingly talented editor, Pauline, who brought my manuscript up to the standard expected for publication.  My awesome friend Stew provided the cover and helped setting up some on my online presence.  I still owe him a beer or two for this. 

 

Now all this is done, the only thing I really need to concentrate on is getting my name out there and encouraging people to read and review it.  I’ve just started using Twitter more for getting the word out on my blog and OTD.  The Facebook page is all fine and well for posting updates.  There’s a few other things in the pipeline which I’ll let you know about in future posts. 

 

Now, why did I decide to write novellas?  Well to be honest it was by accident, well more chance than design.  As I mentioned before, when I started writing OTD it wasn’t meant to be more than a short story, but as I wrote more ideas came, and more writing followed.  I could have continued writing after where OTD: An African War ended and made it into a single novel but to me, where I end An African War and start the next novella (A Familiar Oblivion) feel completely different.  The first is set in a warzone mostly.  The action frantic at times.  The next one will be set in Scotland, concentrating on the main character after coming home, Kyle and how he handles the footage and pictures he’s compiled, and how both their relationships have changed, and they themselves have changed.  I felt each was a separate entity and needed an individual title.  So as it happened An African War turned out to be 41,000 words.  Quite long for a novella but not long enough for a novel.  I’m quite happy writing novellas, though I do miss writing a full length effort.  Should the publisher who are considering CC offer me a contract, I’ll be more than happy to write the next novel alongside OTD. 

 

Some of the above will make more sense when you read OTD: An African War, I tried not to give any spoilers.  For the rest of today I need to come up with a short, around 100 word, synopsis for An African War. Something that sums up the feel and story of the novella.  It’s not as easy as I thought it would be.  I’ve been puzzling over this all weekend.  I did come up with an interesting opening sentence that I hope will hook some attention.

 

“When does someone else’s war become your own?”

 

What do you all think of that?  Thoughts are most welcome.  I may write a smaller blog again this week.  Hope you’ve all enjoyed the read.  Feel free to leave some comments or questions.  Until next time.    

Inaugural blog

 

So this is my first blog, and I’ll admit, I’m a little stumped about what to write about.  It’s so much easier to write fiction.  With fiction only your imagination is the limit, with blogs not so much.  Anyway, here goes.   

So, I’m Mark, as some of you may know me, or MW Duncan, depending on how you found this blog.  I write fiction, at the moment, novellas.  A series of novellas actually.  The Only The Dead  (OTD) series.  I’m still not sure how many volumes it will be but I’m thinking around five or six all around 40,000 words or so.  I know where I want to go with it, just not how long it’ll take to get there.  I’ve also got a novel, Welcome To Carrion City, a character driven thriller, the first of a trilogy, written and it’s under consideration with a publisher.  I won’t say which publisher so I don’t feel as much of a tool if it gets rejected. 

There’s something about Only The Dead: An African War I’d like to clear up.  For anyone who reads the novella (when it’s out) you’ll quickly notice that the main character is called Mark.  No, this isn’t some ego boost to myself, there’s a good reason for this.  And here it is.  I had never really written in the first person before, and a writer friend of mine suggested trying it.  This is the origins of OTD.  A simple writing challenge from a friend.  His advice, put yourself in your characters shoes, see what they see, and feel what they would feel.  So I tried this, and one night, I started writing, and writing, and writing.  7000 words all in one sitting.  I didn’t want to break the momentum so the MC was given the name “Mark” purely to keep me on track.  Had I planned to write so much, I would have thought more about the name.  And now that it’s completed it would feel a little strange to change the characters name.  I would also lose some of the little plays on his name through the book.  So, the name stays. 

The main character couldn’t be more different for me, his experiences, how he feels, even his view on the world.  And that was the fun part of writing in the first person, creating a new character so personally, yet so different to how I think, or feel, or even would react.  It was both a challenge and also a lot of fun.  Although there were more than a few nights spent watching my curser blink at me, with no writing to follow. 

So, I invite you all to have a read of OTD: An African War when it’s released and let me know what you think.  Initially it will be in eBook form, then a month or so after in paperback.  Of course Amazon reviews would be awesome, but I know not everyone likes to write reviews or the like.  If you enjoy the read, tell me, tell friends and family.  If you didn’t like it, then please tell me that, too.  I’ve still a long way to go when it comes to writing.  Over the last four years my writing skills have improved a hell of a lot, but I know I’ll always be learning.  Only now do I actually feel like I have a piece of writing that I would be comfortable putting my name to, and letting the world read.    

I hope you enjoyed reading this.  Perhaps for my next blog I’ll talk about why I chose to publish indie or perhaps something else.  One thing’s for sure, this blog won’t just be about my writing.  I never wanted to make a blog only for writing.  Writing is a big part of my life, but it’s not all of it.  Prepare for randomness.  Later all.