Getting your book up in digital is exciting. Once you’ve put an ISBN against it and pushed it to the numerous distributors, it can be found across the net. Wow! Funny thing is, while it’s awesome having your stuff up […]
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Format, Distribution, Promotion…
Publishing Jolimont Street Ghost should have been a ‘crack a beer and take a week or two off moment’. After all, the hard stuff is done. Writing and editing and proofing and all of that stuff. Done. Front cover and […]
Read moreJolimont Street Ghost – Free at last!
Tada! Please find Jolimont Street Ghost at Smashwords, yours for free, with my compliments, in whatever format you like. Cue the fireworks and open the champagne. OK, maybe I’ll just crack a beer and watch Hellboy. You see, I wanted […]
Read moreBlurb is a Four Letter Word
Third draft of Jolimont Street Ghost is done. More changes, “whoops, how’d that get in there?”, get rid of that unnecessary tosh, red pens and redder eyes. Now I’m going to let it stew once more, while I figure out […]
Read moreIt’s that time again…
‘Jolimont Street Ghost’ second draft is done. Still a few things to tidy up. Still some paragraphs that need work. But now it’s time to break out the red pen. Yeppers, it’s head down, bum up, editing hat on with […]
Read moreJolimont Street Ghost – Front Cover
For the next in Paranormology, I’ve gone back to the beginning in terms of my front cover, except that, unlike Grosvenor Lane Ghost, Jolimont is a fair bit darker and nastier. Now, for the past three covers I’ve been the […]
Read moreTake the Win
When it comes to defining success, context is king. Status? Money? Power? Sure. If that’s the goal. Sometimes it’s an all-or-nothing affair. Other times it comes in degrees. Like cider. Cider? Cider. As in, fermented apples. You see, last year […]
Read moreFire Bird
In art class, all the way back in high school, I learnt about the word ‘juxtaposition’, placing two contrasting elements next to each other. The clean-cut girl and the rough-as-guts loaner. The pristine rainforest holding a smoke-belching factory. An innocent […]
Read moreJolimont Street – First Draft
This time, no mucking around with silly plots. What am I talking about? Well, if you look back a fair few posts, Hampton Court Ghost started life as a train-wreck. There was a mangled plot and a weird premise that […]
Read moreThe Struggle of the Artist – Doubt
Imagine you are standing on a wooden stage. There is a big, thick curtain in front. On one side is a massive, nattering, rumbling crowd. On the other side is you, listening to the noise coming from the other side, […]
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