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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Larry Gorman
Last post I told you I was looking at getting Tedrick his own audiobook because, hey, even an octopus needs his own voice. Findaway made the process very easy indeed – they give you a little form to fill out […]
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Choosing a Voice
Jumping right into the whole Findaway experience, I must say that the experience has been pretty smooth so far. I’m already signed up, so that’s that out of the way, and I clicked on ‘Make a new Project’. With this, […]
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Teddy gets a Voice
I have used Findaway for producing the audiobooks for The Bullet, Atlas Broken and the Paranormology Series. This involved building an audio-booth, buying equipment, training myself to speak properly, learning how to mix and edit, and then fighting with ACX […]
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Iris of the Shadows – Covers
When I first started writing books, I worried only about getting the words into the story. After all, that’s the whole point of the book, right? It can live without all the rest of it, really, so that’s where I […]
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Iris of the Shadows – Synopsis
To say that publishers and literary agents are pressed for time is to say that cats have a predilection for sleep. If there was some way, Matrix style, to compress and download the experience of reading a book into their […]
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Emotions Running Hot
What a journey! There’s always a sense of sadness when I come to the end of writing a book. That’s not the only emotion, mind you. There’s fear, lots of that. Fear that it isn’t enough. Fear that there are […]
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Another Draft
How many drafts does it take to write a book? More than one, for sure. So two? Three? Five? How many sweeps must one do? When doing the books in the Paranormology Series, I settled on three as the magic […]
Read moreIris of the Shadows – Front Cover
Second draft of Iris of the Shadows is complete. I’ve printed it out and sent it off to my paternal editor to have a good going over with a red pen with lashings of criticism. I need to have a […]
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By the Numbers
Think you’re done writing your novel? Got to the end, chuffed with the result, and you’re thinking about the front cover and proofing and publishing? Think again. Second drafts. The slog begins anew. It’s true, the first draft can be […]
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Catpanion
She’s an ideal companion-cat, catpanion if you will, for writing. Once she has settled in, on the chair next to me, she is more than content to ignore every rhetorical question I can throw at her. She snores with content as I bounce ideas off her, and gives silent reassurance that, yes, the character does deserve to contribute to the narrative.
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