Hello my friends and occasional relative. I submit a new rant, which, upon reflection, I possibly should have written in meter. But I didn't, because how easy would it be to train an AI tool to do that? Ahem. Tap tap tap. In my last outing I went straight to the end of the road, …
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A Typically Ill-informed Rant about AI and Writing
This is much longer than my usual entries. My apologies: I got the bit between my teeth and went galloping off hither and yon. A few months ago, I read an article talking about the use of AI in art, and it made me wonder about a future when AI would start to invade writing’s …
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Reading my SPFBO Cohort #3 & #4
Two more interesting books in my anonymous SPFBO 8 read every page review series. #3 This struck me as a book I would have wanted to write when I was in my teens, except in my teens I would have been utterly incapable of doing so! There are lots of references to epic past events …
Reading My SPFBO Cohort #2
A few posts back I mentioned that I was into supporting my cohort in SPFBO 8 - the books assigned to the Before We Go Blog. My admittedly strange way of doing this is to read all 29 books, and thus either gain those books kindle page reads, or buy the ebook version. Not a …
A Promise Fulfilled – TKATD Worldwide ebook Sale!
So I clearly commentator cursed myself, as no sooner had I promised I would put my ebook on sale in all amazon markets outside of the UK and USA after my book was eliminated from the 8th SPFBO, than my book was eliminated! 'Tis the nature of the beast, drat it. My very best wishes …
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The Killer & The Dead On Sale
Hi folks! In the UK and USA my latest novel, The Killer and The Dead, is now on sale, and will be until the 18th of June. Please consder buying the ebook for 99 of your cents or pennies in those countries. The good people at Fantasy Book Critic considered TKATD to be one of …
SPFBO 8
It is happening! Find the fun community on Facebook here! My plan is to read all of the books drawn into my group of 30 before the axe starts to fall. Ok, before the end of phase one. I've read one so far. I liked it, but it was somewhat tonally uneven. There were some …
What happens when you deviate from the process: Collector’s edition edition.
Not the catchiest title, I admit. But I’m here to share how a royal screw up of mine added a gloriously horrific typo to my book AFTER it had been laboriously proofread and judged error free. And I did it as part of the process, not on a whim. Well, okay, there were whims involved, …
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Changes in Perspective
In the month since I released my second book I have realised something. I was afraid of hard work after releasing my first book. I know why, it was because I read advice online, watched videos that said and repeated the message that a book on its own is nothing, that an author must have …
Release Day Is Here! Buy now! (Or later…)
The Killer and The Dead is live on Amazon - go check it out! Paperback and hardback to follow. Though this is officially part of the World Belt series, it is a stand alone novel and can be enjoyed without reading The Thief and The Demon, though if you have you will enjoy some Easter …
