Is Eastwooding a selfish meme?
Yesterday evening, as I browsed Facebook and Twitter, I became aware of, and then part of, something strange. I had already heard something about Clint Eastwood’s debate with an empty […]
Is self-publishing redefining the rules of book genre?
Like many début authors, I didn’t really think too hard about the genre of my first book until I’d finished writing it. And looking back, with large parts of the story seemingly writing themselves, I’m not […]
Secrets of Self-publishing and eBook promotion – Part 2
In the first part of this article, I shared a little of my own limited experience in the world of Indie-publishing and explained how, no matter how good your book […]
Secrets of Self-publishing and eBook promotion – Part 1
This is the first of a 2-part article. In part 2 I will share the results of my Author Survey, posted 2 weeks ago. So, for many months if not […]
Free will, the writer’s muse and other balls.
The origin of artistic inspiration has been a subject of fascination since the ancient Greeks, who wrote of nine goddesses or muses without whose benevolent gifts of insight, aspiring writers […]
Author Survey
Since publishing my first book in June this year, I’m interested to learn how my fellow authors are finding this strange world of indie publishing into which I am […]
The Empathy Continuum – part 2
In the first part of this essay, I briefly introduced the idea of an empathy continuum, before diving straight into what might have seemed like a totally unrelated topic – […]
The Empathy Continuum and a spot of armchair self-diagnosis – Part 1
Profiling the central characters for my next novel has directed research into the fascinating subject of empathy and the hugely varied personality traits / disorders which can arise from our […]
What is it about mountains?
On a recent road trip through the breathtakingly beautiful (and relentlessly cold, rainy and misty) Snowdonia national park, I was once again, like so many times before, struck by the […]
Welcome!
I published my first novel, Connected, in June 2012 on Amazon. As a launch promotion, I offered it free for the first five days, during which, to my great surprise, […]