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Review of Zoe Winter’s badass writing book, Smart Self Publishing: Becoming an Indie Author.

  It’s much harder to review something that’s excellent than something that’s terrible.  Generally the better the book the longer it takes to write the review*.   It took me three weeks, two read throughs and an interview (which will be up tomorrow) with Zoe before I managed to write this review for Smart Self Publishing. [...]

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 [...]

An EPIC interview with Robin Sullivan of Ridan Publishing

***UPDATED WITH WINNER*** Congratulations to VDGriesdoorn, I’ll let Robin know that you won and I’ll get them to send the signed copy of The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J Sullivan out to you as soon as possible.   Thanks to everyone who commented. I’ll be doing a follow up interview with Robin in two weeks time.   [...]

Book Review: When The Hero Comes Home edited by Gabrielle Harbowy and Ed Greenwood

  When The Hero Comes Home edited by Gabrielle Harbowy and Ed Greenwood, was a real surprise. I expected it to be good, but I wasn’t expecting it to be as moving as it was. This is a perfect example of how an anthology of stories should work, individual tales tied together by a cohesive theme. [...]

Book Review: Confessions Of A Freelance Penmonkey By Chuck Wendig

*UPDATED WITH WINNERS* Yes, I said winners. I chose one comment at random (actually my cat did. She knocked over the hat full of numbers and in the end there was only one left in it). I also picked one because it contained the bit of advice I wish I’d gotten. Actually I did get [...]

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 [...]

The Cop Out Post

Hi folks I’m amazingly busy today so I’m afraid this is a bit of a cop out post, but it’s one with a useful link in it, so I’m going to call it a win for both of us. The useful link is Chuck Wendig’s 10 Reasons Why Your Novel Won’t Get Published. This is [...]

A review of Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane and an update

First off, I’ve at long last written another review (and I’ve got another one coming today). You can check out my thoughts on Stacia Kane’s Unholy Ghost here. I’d almost like to say I’ve been being slack, but I’ve actually been working my tail off writing my current work in progress. This one’s actually going [...]

Geist!

Philippa Ballantine is awesome. Take my word for it. She’s a Kiwi author who’s novel, Geist, has just been released. Tomorrow is Geist’s release day, in fact, and I wanted to get in and help her promote it. You might know Philippa from her work podcasting and publishing  Chasing The Bard and Digital Magic. She [...]

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