Author’s Blog
EMERGING FROM THE LONG NIGHT OF COVID? OR NOT?
I have said it before – as I am sure you have – that it has been a truly weird eighteen months and the pandemic is still out there. Cabin fever is us, and all that. I’ve worked through it all, got a lot of stuff done & hundreds of thousands of words written but...
AUDIOGATE
About half my books are available in audio form via AUDIBLE. I persist in trying to make as many books as possible available in audio format not as a business enterprise; but because I know a small percentage of my readers enjoy listening to audio books. Okay, before...
An Update
Okay, now I’m, a pragmatic sort of chap (most of the time); so, when stuff comes along and derails what one thinks one was going to do THIS year, it is always good to have a Plan ‘B’. Being an Indie writer is, like most self-employed gigs. It is what you make of it...
2020 AND PLANS FOR 2021
Okay, that was weird… And it looks like 2021 is going to be more of the same, for a while anyway. As to getting back to normal; what’s ‘normal’ going forward? About this time of year, every year, I try to step back and review what I’m doing, where I’m going, that sort...
TIMELINE PLANS
For the first time for several years there will be no Main Series book release this October (2020), although Timeline ‘stories’ will continue to appear at intervals during the next eighteen months. The last few Timeline Main Series books have been big books and that’s...
VAT (VALUE ADDED TAX) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
I write these occasional blog articles because I know there are folk out there who are interested in the ins and outs, frustrations and yes, joys, of being an indie writer. So, this article is more about sharing dilemmas than decisions, options and vexations! Okay,...
Audio Books
I get asked about if or when all my books will be available as audio books. To which question, I have tended in the past to equivocate. Getting a book produced to a standard appropriate to the required Audible.com quality is not an entirely straightforward process,...
The New England Series World – Update: October 2019
Book 4: REMEMBER BRAVE ACHILLES seems to have been received well (that’s always good!) and Book 5: George Washington’s Ghost is written! Book 6: Imperial Crisis is coalescing in my and I now have titles for books 7 through to 10. Um… That sounds a bit simple,...
INDIA!
My better half and I went to India and then spent a few days in Kathmandu in February and March. It was genuinely one of those adventures one rightly speaks of as a trip of a lifetime. Although, not really a holiday; since it took us several weeks to get over it....
The River Hall Chronicles – Politics and all that
Okay, I’m working away on THE HONORABLE MEMBER – the fourth instalment in the Chronicles – which happens to be about River Hall’s famous dominatrix (Vicki) running for Parliament…bear with me I know this sounds weird…when things get really weird. Specifically, I’m...
Fake Reviews…Aaaargh!!!!!!!!!!!
Apologies, this is me in rant mode! Does anybody out there take a product which has a thousand 5-star reviews (and hardly anything else) seriously? Possibly, likely that depends upon how jaundiced a view one takes of the human condition, I suppose. When it comes to...
The River Hall Chronicles – First Thoughts…
Okay, the third book ALL SWING TOGETHER is coming out and I am blogging about ‘first thoughts’; what is going on? Good question! To which, in my defence I would say… Sometimes, although not invariably – I usually know what I am trying to do ten thousand words into...