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Crunch Time

So life has taken something of an insane turn here, but things are still moving which is something to be grateful for. I’m yet to say anything about the rats in the walls, but it’s only a matter of time… I’m so busy in fact I have no new post for you yet…but I thought [...]

Second EPIC Interview With Robin Sullivan

This is my second interview with uberpublisher Robiun Sullivan of Ridan Publishing. You can find the first interview here, and this one flows on from that one. Robin has been incredibly generous with her time and her knowledge, and I hope to talk to her again soon. A short bit of background: Ridan Publishing is [...]

Required Reading: Ten Sites Every Writer Should Visit

I Should Be Writing   The first writing podcast I ever listened to is not only as good as it ever was then, it’s even better now. Mur Lafferty approaches ISBW with honesty and good humor. This isn’t a techniques podcast/website (although they get mentioned), what Mur excels at is discussing the emotional side of [...]

Legacy Publishing vs Self-Publishing: Can You Do Both?

Can you be a self-published author and a published author?   I sure hope so…because this is the path I’ve decided on. Before I get into this though,  I have to admit I was wrong about something.   You see I’ve been following Joe Konrath’s blog for awhile, I’m a fan of his Jack Daniel’s [...]

More on Robin Sullivan of Ridan Publishing

Hi everyone, I’m beavering away here on my book so I can’t post today, but I’ve had a huge amount of interest from people wanting to know more about Robin Sullivan from Ridan Publishing. If you’d like to know more about Ridan there’s a link just above my blogthat you can click on. As to [...]

Undead Is Not An Option

  Hi everyone! I’ve kept this a little quiet, but awhile back I wrote a short story called Dead Man’s Shoes to appear in the Zombie Survival Crew‘s anthology Undead Is Not An Option. This morning Undead Is Not An Option opened up for pre-orders (at the introductory price of $10.00), and I’d love it [...]

Story Planning For The Disorganized

My greatest weakness is for potato chips.   My greatest weakness when it comes to writing is creating a coherent plan for the story and then following it. I know most writers divide themselves into two camps; planners and pantsers. I don’t want to pan the pantsers at all, after all I am one at [...]

Five Quick Energy Tips For Writers

* A quick disclaimer. Andrew is not a Doctor, even though he played one in a movie that one time. Nothing he says or does should be construed as a good idea. So. Tired. Eyes dropping, gravity’s getting the better of my face too. I feel like one of those cartoons of astronauts in high gravity [...]

Doom and Short Stories

***Please Note: Contest Extended for 48 hours*** I’m gonna sing the Doom Song now. [singing] Gir: Doom doom doom… -         GIR, Invader Zim (2001) Are we all doomed? Listening to the news and various writing blogs it certainly sounds like it. Book sales are down, major book stores are going out of business, I can’t [...]

Writers and Unrealistic Goals

NB: This post was inspired by Chuck Wendig’s blog post here. I think we all do this. I do it all the time, but I’m suffering from a decade’s worth of head trauma, so doing what I do is probably not a good idea. We set ourselves a goal that’s out of our control, then, [...]

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