The editor has returned a copy-edited manuscript and the cover is well on the way to being designed, so D-Day is fast approaching. This has got me thinking about the nuts and bolts of the ebook itself. First I need to put the ebook together as an HTML document, then think about getting it uploaded
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Through the doors of perception: A writing trip on acid
I’m betwixt and between writing projects at the moment. ‘In A Right State’ has gone to my editor for copy-editing and I’m not going back to my 3rd novel, ‘Blindsided’, for a second draft until I’ve released In A Right State into the wilds of Amazon, iBookstore, et al. Saying I’ve nothing to write isn’t technically
RIP ‘Railroaded’. Long live ‘In A Right State’!
One of the first comments I got back from my editor on her critique of ‘Railroaded’ was; the title needs changing. She put it better than that. For a near-future sci-fi novel with no trains, railways, railroad companies or the like, it sounds a bit antiquated…and confusing. I chose ‘Railroaded’ because it’s about how everyone
Self-Publishing: My goal & defining success
I’m in the middle of editing my first novel after getting feedback from my hired editor, and in a quest for some major procrastination, I’ve decided to take a pit-stop and write this post. The project is to self-publish my first novel. The goal is to self-publish it with some degree of professionalism, not just
Self-Publishing: Finding an Editor
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
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
Self-Publishing: Researching a To Do List
The 1st draft of Blindsided is now finished and I need a break from it before going back in and tackling the 2nd draft, but I’m not going to sit around and download mountains of specialist porn, I’m going to enter the big bad world of self-publishing. My first novel, ‘Railroaded‘, has been submitted to
Am I prolific enough? Am I good enough?
The last thing you want when you finish a race is someone coming up to you describing how they ran a crap race, got a cold only a few days ago, got tripped up, had to stop for a dump, lost a shoe and then tell you how disappointed they are with their time…which is