D.C. Farmer's Blog, page 4

The betrayal of JK Rowling

Eye catching title, right.

For those of you who live on Pluto and who don’t know–last month, a partner at the London law firm Russells indirectly unmasked JK Rowling as the writer Robert Galbraith, author of the Cuckoo’s Calling, by apparently letting it slip to his wife’s best friend. She, for some bizarre reason best known to herself, then decided to take it upon herself to let the world know via the twittersphere. One assumes she had not thought through the consequences for her best friend’...

How to write an author blog

How to write an author blog.

Method 1—the usual.

· Get up.

· Take hot coffee in to office/study with intent. (If no tent a yurt will do).

· Put aside any thoughts of working on WIP.

· Log on to internet and check emails.

· Answer emails.

· Check cost of new loafers on one site—12 sites.

· Check e-bay auction for new dog bowl.

· Check filmography of girl seen on TVcop show previous night whose name you can’t remember.

· Watch trailers of five new movies due for release from filmography site.

· Five minut...

Goodreads: It’s a marmite thing.

Many of my friends (and they are legion) from over the ‘pond’(LOL) will read this headline and wonder, WTH? (heck–they are all very polite).

I mean marmite? What is it?

Well, it’s a kind of thick brown paste made out of yeast which you spread on toast.

What could be simpler than that?

The point is that here in the UK, the population is divided into those that either swear by it because they love it (it’s a superfood, darling), or swear at it, because it tastes like a nasty football sock left in a...

A funny thing happened on the way to the wordprocessor (AFTHOTWTTWP)

Poetry is dinky little thing. There’s me worrying about hammering out 1500 words a day in an attempt at getting the next Hipposync archive written, whereas poems need just a few dozen– if that. I mean how hard can it be? So I thought I’d give it a go in an attempt at encapsulating my reflections on life. Take this morning for instance;

Didn’t put the car away,

Exposed it overnight,

A hundred summer swallows,

Re-painted it with **ite.

One swallow does not make a summer, but I’d love to see what the...

The 400Lb Gorilla cover reveal.

Here, at last, is the cover the THE 400LB GORILLA.
It releases in February 2014 from Spence City.
Here’s the back cover blurb:
“Matt Danmor thinks he’s lucky. Not many people survive a near death accident with nothing more than a bout of amnesia, a touch of clumsiness and the conviction that the technician who did the MRI had grey skin and hooves.
Still, it takes time to recover from trauma like that, especially when the girl who was in the accident with you disappears into thin air. Especially...

When Daleks couldn’t climb stairs.

At least in 1966 you felt safe on the first floor, right? You could fantasise about hiding behind the balustrades on floor 1 and toss socks at the invading Dalek below, hoping to get one over the eyestalk in a lucky shot. In the new, improved DW, they can do anything, fly, do the polka, change the beds, all thanks to a major BBC upgrade.

But even in the no stairs days you were never really safe since it could just sit there on the ground floor and fire death rays up at you blindly, in the hope...

Publisher’s Weekly announcement

A while since I posted. We’ve been busy at Hipposync. See for yourself.

The Publisher’s Marketplace announcement for DC Farmer’s 400LB GORILLA went live yesterday.

Here’s the announcement:

From PUBLISHER’S MARKETPLACE: DC Farmer’s 400LB GORILLA, in which a down on his luck man discovers a magical world alongside his own, and learns that his luck might just be a lot better than he realized, to Vikki Ciaffone at Spence City, in a nice deal, for publication in February 2014.

Yee-hah.

More posts later...

To be (yourself) or not to be (yourself). Pen names are the question.

Okay there are several schools of though on this one. The first is that it’s a waste of time and likely to result in terminal confusion for you and your readership.

Social media is the necessary evil we all have to face in order to get our work known.

In the past–getting your work known involved promotion from the publisher.

Now, we have the power to build platforms ourselves. So if you write under more than one name, isn’t it just twice or three times the effort? Let me just climb up there on t...

Genius at work. Paul Carrack on tour.

Not my usual sort of flippant post this one. I just couldn’t let this one go by.

Last Thursday night, as a well thought out birthday gift, my wife took me to see Paul Carrack at the St David’s Hall in Cardiff.

Paul who? I hear a lot of you ask, since a few of the people this reaches are not British.

Well ask away, because you do know him even if the name isn’t that familiar.

At least you will have heard him, singing songs from a songbook that spans four decades. He’s been called the best blue eye...

Urban Fantasy Film Club.

George Hoblip, who as you all know, is a Brownie, invited me round for a boys night in. Couple of beers, some nuts and a video.

What I hadn’t bargained for was his library of films. I know the old saying, that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but with the fae, you’ve just got to ask yourself if they’re just taking the Michael. Judge for yourself. This is what I found on his shelf:

Vampire of the Sun

The ghoul with the Dragon tattoo

Mutiny on the banshee

Fae here to Enternity.

The men who...