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July 23, 2009
Blog book tour Day 4
The blog tour rumbles ever onwards and today you can find me over at Publetariat.com. Publetariat is is an online community and news hub built specifically for indie authors and small, independent imprints. I'm a regular contributor over there myself and this time around site founder April Hamilton interviews me about why I chose to go indie, how I make it work, how I build my author platform and so on. This interview is something of a continuation or development of yesterday's interview at Bras
All you need to know about writing in 1,000 words
There are a lot of things like this out there, but this is one of the best, most succinct and well-written examples I've ever seen. I found it via Joanna Penn (you may remember her from Day 1 of the blog book tour) who passed on the link via Twitter (you can find Jo there under @thecreativepenn). The link was to Nathan Bransford's blog. Nathan Bransford is a literary agent for Curtis Brown. I've mentioned him before and I regularly follow his blog, but for some reason I missed this one.
Anyway, t
July 22, 2009
Blog book tour Day 3
Today I move on to the US and I'm kindly hosted by action adventure author (and good friend of mine) David Wood. David had me share a post with another author, Sean Ellis, and we both talk about what's involved in writing a good fight scene. Once again, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments over there and I'll check in regularly.
Blog book tour day 3 – Writing Fight Scenes at David Wood Online.
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The movie meme
Sometimes I just can't be bothered with these things and other times they catch my interest. This one caught my eye over at BT's Musings Of An Aussie Writer blog. I thought I might drop it in here to break up the blog book tour a bit, especially as we're switching from Australian hosts to US hosts today, so there might be a gap of longer than 24 hours between book tour posts.
Here we go then:
1.Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.
There are a few, but the obvious one is Blade Runner,
July 21, 2009
Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 Anthology now available
Back at the end of June I was very happy to annouce that my short story Parklife had won a place in the Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 contest. You can read that post here. All the winning entries have been bought and published in an anthology, which is free and exclusively available through Smashwords.com. That anthology is now available, so get on over there and download yourself a copy. Along with my story there are 39 other great pieces of flash fiction, all under 1,000 words and all well
July 20, 2009
Blog Book Tour Day 2 – Interview at Brascoe
The blog book tour continues today with an interview at the Brascoe Publishing blog. Brascoe is an Australian indie publisher doing interesting things and they were kind enough to interview me about the process of self and indie publishing.
Blog Book Tour Day Two at Brascoe Publishing – Click here.
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So it begins – Blog book tour Day 1
So after all this planning, let's hope this thing works out as it's supposed to. Day One of my virtual book tour has arrived and the first stop is the blog of Joanna Penn. Joanna's site is called The Creative Penn and is full of stuff all about writing, self-publishing, print-on-demand, internet sales and marketing for books. Her site is a wealth of useful information and she also produces the Author 2.0 program, which is a fantasic resource to help authors build an online platform from which to
July 19, 2009
My blog book tour starts early with Smashwords interview
The virtual book tour that I've been arranging starts on Monday. I blogged the itinerary here a couple of weeks ago. I'm very pleased to say that the whole thing has started early with an interview with Smashwords founder Mark Coker. In the interview I talk about what a blog book tour is and how to set one up. You'll also find there the secret codes to buy both RealmShift and MageSign ebooks from Smashwords for just US$1 each, which is a promotion that will only run for the duration of the tour.
Catholics shoehorn relevance into Gore's plan
I read about this in the Sydney Morning Herald today and it gave me quite a chuckle over my cereal. The Catholic Church, along with pretty much every other religion, is no stranger to desperately shoehorning "facts" into things to keep their dogma relevant. Anyone that's ever read the Bible knows that it takes a willful act of denial to ignore the plethora of inconsistencies, for example. However, the religious rationalisation in this article in the Herald is hilarious.
The article talks about ho
July 11, 2009
Away for a few days
I'm off skiing for a few days now, back next Friday, so things might be a bit quiet around here for a little while. Use the time to catch up on some reading, maybe, or crochet that hat you've always wanted.
Feel free to stay in touch as I'll check in now and then throughout the week. And don't forget the blog book tour that kicks off on Monday 20th July. Tell your friends!
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