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NEVER READING AGAIN TBH
Yep. That’s what readers always say after finishing an amazing book. Trufact. You know that’s not true. Or at least, it shouldn’t be. Every time I finish a book that made me happy, I go hunt down all...
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Eddie Izzard, Performance, And Typos.
Last night The Boy took me out to go see Eddie Izzard on the Cape Town leg of his Force Majeure tour. Was a fantastic night out, with much fun had. But it got me thinking a little about performers and...
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Doodlebugging
I have five scenes left to write in Three Dog Dreaming. (Well, five-ish, things are pretty fluid here). The end is nigh! So naturally I am doing everything I can to avoid actually working on it....
View ArticleThe Problem With Owning Only One Net
How do you catch a shape-shifting animal if you only have one net? What if you start out catching butterflies and end up hunting a bear? This is a terrible metaphor but I’m going to use it anyway...
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House of Sand and Secrets update
I have just sent in the final draft of House of Sand and Secrets. Final being a relative thing in publishing. I have two more Hobverse books ready to go into edits, it’s just a matter of deciding which...
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Stalling
It’s happened before. When I first started writing, I was so bad that it would have been more than a little pathetic if I hadn’t shown some fast improvement (and even then I doubt it was fast enough)....
View ArticleA Most Excellent News Kinda Day
Lots of suhweet things happening. Firstly, the audio book for When the Sea is Rising Red is now out. The voice artist, Gemma Dawson, is absolutely perfect – I can’t explain my happiness when I heard...
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Submitting to Agents
I don’t normally do “how-to” posts because my way is not your way etc, but I’m putting this little agent-getting-of post up about my experiences (which even by now may be a little dated ) because I’ve...
View Articleaargh aargh aargh is a valid human emotion
So. Success, it’s this thing, right? I mean, most of us want it, in some form or another. Success has different meanings – it could be having more sales than the Holy Bible, or being a household name,...
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US vs THEM
Writers vs Reviewers. If you spend any time on social media following authors and book bloggers, you see this cropping up. The most recent in a long string of us vs them is here at Booksmugglers but...
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