Yes! The free book is out. Go. Download. Read. Enjoy.
ps, Happy 40th to me.
pps, Somehow, I have two folks downloading before I have the ISBN'ed version up. Go me.
Phew! (pantpantpant)
I managed to bodge up a cover for my upcoming free book [Out TOMORROW!] in fantastic Suck-O-Vision care of my pathetic art skills and equally pathetic Inkscape skills.
It all stems from the concept that there’s a point in my story where my antagonist is completely covered in… things… [Spoilers] Therefore, the view plate of their helmet would be all HUD.
All I had to do was design the farging HUD.
Pain. In. The Arse.
Not doing that
Read more »Progress report of a sort
Okay, so I finally got off my divot and transferred my soon-to-be-released free book into MSWord 7 ‘cause that’s the only editor that exists for the nice folks at Smashwords 9_9
Now I’m just waiting for @xotxot to get back to me about the cover.
I’m getting nervous. As I usually do when my success at a plan is entirely dependant on someone else. I’ve had plans of mine fail purely because
Read more »An announce.
There are seventy parts of Misfits.
SEVENTY.
My God, why can’t I write this much when I’m working on a Pro-novel?
Read more »Words that don't exist, but should: Inanism
Inanism (n): [in-NAYN-is-um] 1. a saying, malapropism or phrase that is inherently inane. [eg: “Working hard or hardly working?”] 2. a means of filling the air with noise under the guise of conversation. [eg: “Sure, we talked; but it was all inanisms.”] orig: Inane.
Why this word needs to exist: we seriously need a word for the verbal nothing that spouts effortlessly from the mouths of those loud, annoying people in the office/workspace/elevator.
Endorse the word.
Read more »"Blowing Bubbles" is live!
A little stand-alone work on the nature of reality and such. It may be my last short story for a bit, as I’m throwing myself at novels.
…and missing a lot…
Read more »Writer Rants: Breath vs Breathe
This is one of the ones that chafes my niblets something fierce.
Ranting in three… two…
I’ll get this out of my system, now, and move on to more civilised discussion with a clear head.
Ahem.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME GODDAMN WORD, PEOPLE!
Aaaahh. I feel so much better.
I am sick and tired of people treating “breath” and “breathe” as interchangeable whenever they write. So let me make it clear.
“Breath&
Read more »Good Boy is live!
The potentially stomach-twisting story of an old man and his dog…
Read more »Words an author never wants to hear
“We think your novel will make an excellent kids’ series.”
“How about [Completely wrong actor] to play the part of [Your hero(ine)]?”
“We love it, but can we cut the [Entire point of the whole damn book]?”
Hey, Hollywood. How about you trust that we did our best to write a good book and at least try to be faithful to the actual content?
Not that I’ve got close to getting there,
Read more »Nor Gloom of Night is live!
Published and available for sale for a lousy $1.99 [coughbuymybookscough]
Previewable here.
Please buy my stuff. Writing is the only thing I can really do.
Read more »Freakin' Lurgi
The entire family - minus me and the the antisociallite Captain Useless - have been struck low with Lurgi this week.
Which, for me, means interrupted sleep, tired days, lots of coffee caramel mochachinos, and entire swathes of the Blah’s.
More ranting on the Blah’s after the cut.
There is nothing more draining than the Blah’s. Everything is just… blah. Even the thought of it turns you off.
Going out? Blah. Having a decent meal?
Read more »A call for volunteers
You’ve had some free samples of my writing [check the #story tag in my posts] and now I’m looking for Beta Readers because it’s just occurred to me that handing out stories for free before I try to sell them might just be a bad business plan.
So. Does anyone out there with sharp reading eyes wish to subject themselves to the alpha drafts of whatever the heck my warped mind concocts next?
Read more »A small dilemma (and an ask)
Firstly, apologies to everyone who’s been expecting a thing a day. I’ve been busy with pestillence, family and (again) waiting for someone who could help me to get their finger out of the metaphorical divot.
All my loyal readers will know I’m on Smashwords now and have my first work allegedly up and multi-compatible.
C'mon. Buy the dang thing. It’s only two freaking dollars. I need the money.
Ahem.
Anyway. I have three other
Read more »89.8
That’s my weight, this morning. I’m finally down to sniffing distance of my target weight.
After my personal disaster cascade [see earlier posts about me tripping on a chair], I honestly believed I would be battling weight problems and increasing weight until such time as I could actually walk again.
What I forgot is that I would also be less inclined to get up and grab another snack.
Here’s my regime - or what passes for
Read more »Slowly Getting There
I took an actual day off, today. Well, most of a day off.
Possibly 50% of a day off.
Because a Mum’s work is never done. I can’t have a complete day off.
The dog got out and I had to go catch him. Invisible fences are looking increasingly attractive right now.
And I spent the afternoon teaching Mayhem (my eldest) that playing with the dog is fun.
That was exhausting. But fun.
But I didn’t
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