You like audiobooks, I know you do. But not just any audiobooks. Victorian ghost-hunting? You got it. Octopus detective? You got it. Rogue orphans on an epic adventure? You know you’ve got it. Existential explorations involving a lump of lead? […]
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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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Last chance to win a copy of Iris of the Shadows
It’s Christmas here in Australia (and a Merry Christmas to you), but it’s Christmas Eve in America. Why is that significant? Because the GoodReads Giveaway for Iris of the Shadows finishes on Christmas. What with timezones and daylight savings and […]
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Shh… it just got real!
eBooks are great. Really, they are. I’ve got a Kobo reader next to my bed and I use it every night – currently a Lovecraft inspired collection, including Call of Cthulu and Innsmouth. The convenience of having where I’m up […]
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The Officially Unofficial Release!
Iris. Of. The. Shadows. Today, the 21st of July, 2021, marks the actual, official, bona fide, genuine, you-beaut, true-dinks, honest-and-for-realsies-this-time release of Iris of the Shadows. You know, because I stuffed up. Because Jez and dates are two things that […]
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I Stuffed Up
Me and dates, we don’t get along. Not dates as in the fruit. They’re alright. And prunes, I’m a fan of prunes. Dried apricots, sultanas, raisins, currants, yeah, they’re all good. But that’s not what I’m on about. I’m talking […]
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Draft2Digital vs Smashwords – Continued
I have been using Smashwords to publish and distribute my eBooks for yonks. For Iris of the Shadows, I decided to try something different. I went with Draft2Digital. I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t really like to change around […]
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Draft2Digital vs Smashwords
Even since the first upload of Adaptation and for the next 15 odd titles, I’ve been using Smashwords to perform the conversion and aggregate the distribution of my titles. I found working with the first few titles a bit tricky, […]
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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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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 […]
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