Authors and writers beware! While it has been a long-held wisdom that commenting on relevant book related sites and blogs can be useful in building an online presence and promoting your author brand, I have to warn you of a trap I fell headlong into last week. When I came across a short story post, written…
Yes, I may be way too old to learn new tricks, but that won’t stop me trying. It happened like this. I read a blog article, or three, about Wattpad, and immediately thought it was a site for young people with smartphones in hand, reading little chapter by chapter romance or paranormal series. Not for…
For some, playing with the English language may not be your cup of tea, but I love it. One of my favourite parts of speech is the difference of meaning between gerunds and infinitive verb forms. While some verbs change meaning completely, others remain more or less the same. But knowing which ones change and…
Why I’m moving to Amazon KDP Select As some of my readers may know, I made the monumental decision a month or so ago to move all of my ebook titles to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Select program (Amazon KDP Select). Of course this meant that I had to make all of my titles exclusive to…
They love what I hate, and hate what I love. I have written more that a few books, but one annoying result of all this writing is that readers seem to prefer the books of mine, which I don’t particularly like at all. Now, this poses quite a conundrum for me, doesn’t it? Should I write for…
The Few The sequel to The Sons of Cleito. Three months after his release, Langley Garret discovers that his abduction certainly hadn’t been a mistake. He had only been extremely fortunate. The sound of Chara’s voice, returning from the dead, and interrupting him on an early morning walk starts his unwelcome return to the grip of…
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