Writing is not all moonbeams and unicorn farts, it really isn’t. But it is a damn sight better than digging ditches or working in a cardboard box factory. Though, as I recently discussed with a co-worker, there is something very zen about making cardboard boxes; you can disconnect your mind and get to that part […]
Fagin’s Boy Review at A Kiss At Midnight
I don’t know what I did to deserve it, but just today I was kindly informed that a review of Fagin’s Boy was posted at A Kiss at Midnight’s blog. The review is very positive and glowing, and Kelsey McNight gave it 5 out of 6 glass slippers, a reference to the Cinderella story that I […]
Bookfly Design Does It Good
James Egan at Bookfly Design does so many beautiful covers that it’s hard to chose which is his best work. I’m partial to the ones that James designs for my books, but that wouldn’t surprise anybody, I reckon. Last weekend I was at a writer’s retreat, and had brought my three books to sign and to sell, […]
Cozy Classics – Oliver Twist
I’m currently working on my next book, the working title of which is Oliver and Jack. I meant to come and post something about how Oliver and Jack are currently lost in the wilds of the Norwood Forest, or something erudite about writing, or something about up-to-the-minute news, but then I came across a series […]
Categories and Keywords – Kind Assistance
As with any indie writer, I’m always working on ways to make my work visible and discoverable. As mentioned in some previous posts, Let’s Get Visible and Write Publish Repeat had a great many good ideas for doing this. My goal is and was to implement those ideas that resonated with me. Being a 3 […]
Joining the Cult of Mac
I joined a cult last week. No, really, I did. Though I don’t wear special underwear or drink strange Kool-Aid, I do believe, yes, truly, that I have joined a cult. I was reading Write. Publish. Repeat. which I had purchased along with David Gaughrahn’s Let’s Get Visible and both of those books mentioned something called Scrivener. […]