Thoughts of quitting have been taking up much of my time recently, and if I’m being entirely honest, not just recently. Since I started writing and publishing some have disappeared from the indie world. Or maybe like me they are simply not spending as much time on social media. That’s where I used to […]
Plotting didn’t seem to matter with The Grayson Trilogy as the story and all its twists and turns were vivid in my mind. I couldn’t get the words down quickly enough and always ran out of time before I ran out of story to tell. Maybe that’s the way with first books, or series. I […]
I’ve been following Mark Dawson for quite some time (no, not in that way…) by listening to The Self Publishing Show podcast he does with James Blatch, signing up for the Ads for Authors course (which I’m still trying to complete) and being on his newsletter. When I signed up to that I received […]
Anyone who knows me will know my memory is shocking. Names, events, my thirties (in particular) are a blur. I even, most notably, had to flick through one of my early books recently, as I couldn’t remember the plot and was being asked questions about it. And it’s not as though I have that […]
Did you know that 99% of the reading public never post a review for a book? At Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team (six years and going strong!), we often look at ways to encourage more people to review. This autumn, Rosie has planned a Review-A-Book Challenge, with a great list of books to choose from, […]
By my bed I have a pile of paperbacks which are the books I need to get to before those on my straining bookshelf, and this was one of them. I actually have a limited edition book proof that I picked up from a local bookshop a while back. The eventual cover is considerably jauntier […]
I’m typing this as my phone, on speaker mode, launches, once more, into the interminable series of, what I can only describe as, musac. So far this has only been on repeat for an hour today. Last week, on just one day, I listened to it for a continuous six hours… The most irritating […]
Thorne Moore has been on my radar as an author I must read for a long time now. In fact, as it turns out, I bought her book A Time for Silence back in 2014, but still haven’t got to it. And what a mistake that was. I chose to read The Covenant, the […]
I’m not sure where the week goes but it certainly seems to race round when it come to me trying to write my blog post for each Monday. I had no idea what I was going to write this week but then thought I’d mention the challenge I’m setting myself through November, again. Yes, it’s […]
I chose to read this book as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and the author sent me a copy. This does not affect my review in any way. Alfie Cooper is in his mid-eighties and lives unhappily in the Pinewood care home, but with no family to look after him he has […]
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