It’s you, isn’t it?
The short answer is, no. It’s not me. Not in the true sense. Though I can definitively say that the protagonist in ‘do while true’ comes about from a ‘there but for the grace of God, go I’ arrangement. That’s […]
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Iris has a voice!
That was an exercise in pain. It took almost a year. In between were colds and school holidays and car accidents and emergency late-night server deployments. The raw audio alone was killer. Too many nights I’d sneak out to get […]
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Pops and Clicks
I’m getting toward the end of the audiobook work for Iris of the Shadows and, if there’s one thing that is sapping out the most time, it’s the popping and the clicking noises rising out of the audio. From what […]
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Sir Gronksalot
I wake up in the morning. It’s a little trickier to get out of bed. The blankets are heavier because, during the night, Gravity got all high and mighty and decided to become the dominant force of nature or something. […]
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More Fun than you can Shake an Octopus at
This is it, the final run to release. I’ve scrambled. I’ve scrimped. I’ve burnt that midnight oil and pored over the pulp and now, finally, the last little leg is here. April 30th is the deadline and I’m proud to […]
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Listen, dear Octopus
Tedrick’s latest book is built off words. Lots of words that make up phrases that make up sentences that make up paragraphs that make up chapters. Those words sit on the page, or the ePage if you’re one of them […]
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An Octopus of a Different Colour
Books. They need a cover. That’s where a lot of my time is spent when writing new books. I enjoy the work, but it does take a good portion of my free time. Now that I’ve done a few, it’s […]
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The Paranormology Series is for Free
Until the 1st of March 2023, you can grab the entire series of Paranormology, from Grosvenor Lane to Nadderwater Rise, all of it, for free on Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=5J73GgAAABAShM&gl=US That’s right. You’re not seeing things. Get all eight books […]
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What’s new Octo-pussycat?
Time off work arrives with a promise of being able to sleep in, lazily arranging one’s day to fit in desires rather than necessities. That promise quickly evaporates as Life, that indomitable force, struts into the room, shakes the bed, […]
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A Microsoft Word, PDF and Lulu issue – STYLEREF and MERGEFORMAT
Nadderwater Rise Ghost needed to be in paperback. Easy as pie, no worries, I’ll just format it as I usually do, slap on the Table of Contents, Copyrite and ISBN pages, create a paperback cover as a pdf and head […]
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Octopus Detective On Super Sale
Before I get onto a problem I had with converting a Microsoft Word document to PDF for printing to Lulu (compelling stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree), I thought I had better mention something more immediate, tangible and beneficial to everyone. […]
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