Dear all Well, I’ve been at Camp a week now, and it was a fun start, since I threw all my plans up in the air and started again. Well, I didn’t throw out what I’d done of Willoughby’s story,
#IWSG for July | Is it worth it?
I’ve been seeing a number of the authors who have become friends over the last five years questioning whether it’s all worthwhile lately. I know what they mean because I’ve been thinking that too. If you’ve been going some time
Back to Camp NaNoWriMo
Thursday sees the start of Camp NaNoWriMo again, and this year is the first time I’ve done two months of targeted writing, both the April and the July camps. November is not a writing time for me – it’s editing
#IWSG – Creativity and trauma
I saw a number of posts last month about writing and depression, or writing your way out of bad places even if you weren’t actually depressed. Lots of comments about friends who’d lost their jobs and thrown themselves into crafts
Real life or just Fantasy?
No, I’m not caught in a landslide, although come to think of it, maybe I should put Pete and the Swede in one. I’m getting on well with the word count for Viridian System #2 – you can check on
The Perihelix by Jemima Pett
Tomorrow is launch day! Today you can pre-order it at Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo. Tomorrow it will be for sale on Smashwords too. By the way, you can also vote for The Traveler in Black and White on AUTHOR SHOUT
#IWSG | If in doubt, make a plan
My first Insecure Writers Support Group post of 2016 wraps around my Goodreads Giveaway for the Traveler in Black and White. I was hunting for a place to post the giveaway on the blog, and I thought, well, it’s part
Off to summer camp again!
It’s that time of year again. You may be preparing for your Independence Day celebrations, but I’m off to camp for July. Camp NaNoWriMo, of course… Last year I wrote the first draft of The Perihelix – which didn’t have
I’m working too hard
It’s the old story, isn’t it? We work by day and write by night, and then we wonder why we’re so tired. I started joking some time ago that I’m now a full-time publisher, and in my spare time I
Oh dear, I got it wrong – #IWSG
You see, I demonstrate my insecurity by realising that I didn’t do my first post on the Insecure Writers’ Support Group (IWSG) properly. I failed to introduce myself (and I was late adding the link). I hate introducing myself. It’s
I’m admitting it – I’m insecure!
Well, three years after I started self-publishing my books and realised the need to blog regularly and appropriately about them, I am finally admitting I’m as insecure as the next person. So I’ve joined the Insecure Writers Support Group, hoping
Postcard from Camp (5) – The Legend of the Perihelix
Dear All By the time you get to read this card, Camp Nano will be over for another year. The first draft of Big Pete and the Swede’s first full-length adventure is done 🙂 I don’t think the pacing is
Tuesday Haiku – Viridian System 1
Big Pete and the Swede – Stolen from their loves to find The Perihelix! I’m not sure that the female protagonists of the story should really be classed as their loves, but what do I know, they may surprise me
Postcard from Camp (4)
Dear All By the time you read this, I should be at the 75% mark if I am going to finish the book by the end of the month. I think I will, although at the start of the week,
On writing speed
One of the blogs I follow is the Mad Reviewer, and I remember some time ago she discussed her reading speed. Being a reviewer, she has to get through a lot of books – and she has the advantage of