The first step in getting my first novel self-published was to find an editor to knock it into shape and make it half-readable and, hopefully, sellable. But how? I’ve never done this sort of thing. I searched the internet and got a kinda confused mess of all sorts, eventually narrowing it down to 3 really good
MonthJanuary 2014
Blindsided playlists
I thought I’d whip up a quick post with links to a couple of playlists I created in iTunes as a follow up to this previous post back in December 2010, ‘Some of my writing playlists‘, but iTunes appear to have totally destroyed that facility. So, instead, you’ll just have to do with a screenshot
I’m a grammar panda eating bamboozling word rules
I’m not a full-blown grammar Nazi so I’m going to refer to myself as a grammar panda since recently reading ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves‘ by Lynne Truss, mainly in preparation for redrafting one novel and self-publishing another, thinking I need a refresher in all this boring, technical stuff. I have a basic knowledge of punctuation and
The first beginnings of a novel
Here’s the first thing I wrote in my notebook for ‘Blindsided‘. The initial idea I had swilling around in my brain parts for a few months as I was finishing off my previous novel, ‘Broken Branches‘. I’ve only just finished the first draft of Blindsided so there’s a couple of drafts to go before any