Week 1: Camp NaNoWriMo 2018. I’m editing Curved Space to Corsair. I also have Curved Space to Corsair on pre-order at iTunes, Nook and Kobo, and listed at Smashwords. This must be why, in among my better-than-usual sales stats for
July | Summer/Winter Sale + #CampNaNoWrimo
It’s the first of July, and I’m off to summer camp for the month. My July Camp NaNoWriMo goal I’m at Camp NaNoWriMo to get Curved Space to Corsair (Viridian Series 2) edited. I promised my new editor I’d have
Is writing easier in Spring? #IWSG
Spring! It’s finally here, maybe. And the Insecure Writers Support Group hint of the month is (roughly): Do you find it easier writing in spring when everything is growing and things are looking fresher? What I usually do in spring
#Flashback Friday | Spaghettification
Spaghettification started out as an independent short story in February 2015, and then became the key to the second book in the Viridian System series. That’s Curved Space to Corsair—I’ve just started the main edit. It’s my offering for Flashback
Postcard from Camp | Fanwester loses it
‘Fanwester loses it’ is an extract that I really enjoyed writing. The original version (first draft, not the one that got published) was a lengthy rant by the character about people and things that my reader had no idea about
Postcard from Camp | The Perihelix Extract 3
Camp NaNoWriMo week 2 was going well… until I read the latest Adirondack Publishing advice on The Story Reading Ape – about Voice. As you know, I’m re-editing The Perihelix, especially the first ‘half’ which had, let’s call it, ‘deficiency
Postcard from Camp | The Perihelix extract 2
An extract from The Perihelix (or whatever I’m working on at Camp NaNoWriMo) is my best offering for Flash Fiction this month. This 550 word section follows on from the snippet I gave you on Wednesday. Of course, you don’t
#IWSG | Most valuable lesson in writing
It’s the Insecure Writers’ Support Group today, asking about a valuable lesson you’ve learnt. I’m at Camp Nano, so this is just a quickie to show willing. My most valuable lesson The most valuable lesson I’ve learnt while writing comes
Off to Camp NaNoWriMo at the weekend!
Camp NaNoWriMo – yes it’s back, and so am I. I finished the edit of Princelings 8 over the past few months and sent it to my editor a couple of days ago. So now I’m back to the elephant in
Challenges: Camp Nano, Clean Sweep and others #AtoZChallenge
Challenges seem a good focus for my C of the A to Z this year. I write a guest post for The Story Reading Ape’s blog, mostly published on the second Sunday of the month. Somehow I got myself into
Camp NaNoWriMo Round-up
Yes, I finished camp and got back last week, but I was too busy with the Question of the Month and the Beach Reads Giveaway to update you then. As you know from my postcards, the target was to finish
Postcard from Camp; 23rd July
Dear All Ah! The heat! Temperatures soared into the 90s at the start of the week, which I know is low for some of you, but for the UK, it’s roasting. The guinea pigs and I put a lot of
Postcard from Camp – 16th July
Dear All What a week! I finished Willoughby the Narrator on Monday. It was great, since on Sunday I when I finished writing, I realised what needed to happen to get to the end of the book, left myself a note
Postcard from Camp; 9th July
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,
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