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Recommended Reads: Othella by Therin Knite

What a fantastic read. It is 60 years in the future and civilisation is close to collapse. To save the world, hard decisions need to be taken. The best scientists are brought to Arcadian Heights – a purpose-built oasis in this crumbling world – with one goal: to develop technologies to avert disaster. But how […]

Twitter tip for WordPress users

One of the great things about the WordPress platform for blogging is the sharing facility. These little buttons at the bottom of each post allow people who have liked what you’ve written to share it across many different social media platforms. Like many other bloggers I use twitter. Twitter is fantastic a platform on which […]

The difference between creativity and inspiration

There is a big difference between creativity and inspiration yet many people assume they are the same. One of the comments I often read on Twitter is that a writer doesn’t feel in the mood, that today isn’t a creative day, that their muse isn’t with them. It sometimes comes from an established author but […]

Dylan S Hearn

Originally posted on Reading Recommendations:
Dylan S Hearn What is your latest release and what genre is it? My book is called Second Chance. You could call it a dystopian thriller, or a technological thriller. Quick description: Newly elected Delegate, Stephanie Vaughn, throws her weight behind the investigation of a missing student. When lack of…

Recommended Reads: Contract of Defiance by Tammy Salyer

Up until this point most of my Recommended Reads have been written by self-published authors I have come into contact with through blogging or social media, but Contract of Defiance was a little different. It was recommended by Mike Fedison on his Eye Dancers blog and what caught my attention was that Mike spoke of  how supportive Tammy had been when he […]

Gone fishing

I’ll be away for the next week and a bit having a well-earned break on the south coast of England. By the time you read this I will have finished editing the second part of my sequel to Second Chance (only part 3 to go!) and I have to say, despite a little wobble a few […]

Recommended Reads: The new Mrs D. by Heather Hill

One of the best things since starting my Pay it Forward campaign has been reading new genres and styles of books that I would never have looked at previously. I’ve read literary fiction, memoirs; short-stories of every genre and some great horror and science-fiction. For my next recommended read – having met the author Heather Hill on twitter […]

Leaving Reviews for Indie Authors

Originally posted on Author S. Smith:
You know that friend who’s always pleading harassing  asking you to leave them a book review on Amazon? The one whose book you read? Possibly you even got the book for free? Okay, so ME for some of you. This is just a little tutorial/explanation of why it is…

My Writing Process Blog Hop

A couple of weeks ago I was nominated to take part in a writing process blog hop by Arran Bhansal from the blog Confessions of a Published Author. I don’t normally take part in blog hops or awards, not because I’m a miserable sod (or I should say, not only because I’m a miserable sod) […]

Recommended Reads: Identity – Part 1 by Claire Duffy

  This wonderfully dark & complex nordic thriller comes with plenty of twists and turns. Don’t be fooled by the “part 1″, this is a self-contained story with a satisfying conclusion. However, if you like your stories to follow a comfortable, predictable path where you know where you are at all times then this book […]