Early next week, Sixty-One Nails will be released in the USA and Canada and the sequel, The Road to Bedlam will be released in the UK and Australasia, giving us an excuse for a double celebration here at Shevdon Manor. Due to the global nature of publishing, there are already fans in the US who…
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Meme: Desert Island Books
The thing about memes is that they draw you in. Here’s me being drawn in… One book that changed your life One book you have to read more than once One book you’d want on a desert island Two books that made you laugh One book that made you cry One book you wish you’d…
Road to Bedlam First Reviews
The launch of a new book is always a tense time for a writer. WIll new readers like it? Will fans of earlier books be delighted or disappointed? We writers aim to please, but as always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So, what’s being said? Well, here’s a small extract from…
Tools for Writing 7 – Writer’s Café
For this week’s post in Tools for Writing I have a guest contributor, Simon West. Simon is a new writer, dipping his toe in the waters of fiction and non-fiction and has a long-term goal of writing for a living. Simon has been using Writer’s Café and has volunteered to review it for us. Over to you,…
Bedlam Cover Exclusive
I am delighted to be able to give you an advance preview for the cover of THE ROAD TO BEDLAM which is scheduled for release on 2nd September. There is always a challenge with covers that you want it to identify strongly with its sister titles but also to have a unique feel of its…
Tools for Writing 6 – yWriter
We’ll be looking at a PC tool in this part of the series, and it’s one that is squarely aimed at the structured approach. yWriter is produced by Spacejock Software, and as you can probably tell from the developer’s moniker, is designed and built by an SF writer, Simon Haynes. Like some other tools that…
Tools for Writing 5 – FreeMind
As part of my series on tools for writing, I wanted to take a look at, not only tools for drafting and editing your work, but also tools to help you plan what you write and structure your thoughts. In this post we’ll be looking at FreeMind, a mind-mapping tool which allows you to organise…