Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Politics and Religion. Religion and politics. The advice is not to talk about it in polite company. So I wrote a book centered on faith and religion, and I’m writing a book about politics, power, and the self-serving nature of rulers. These are the choices of the writer …
Continue reading Religion and Politics and a Cover Upgrade! (Hardback coming soon!)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Another week passes. This time next week I hope to have released the new hardback version of The Thief and The Demon. I will share here the new cover when I receive it. I have been working on getting set up to do the narration of my books. …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! A week of news and positivity for you! I am going to have an upgraded cover for The Thief and The Demon! Coming to a theatre/site near you, soon! I’ve wanted to give the title some more oomph and visibility for quite a while, and have agreed on …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So nice to see you! I blog therefore I am. You read (and like) and therefore you are? I have no idea. But I’d like to hope you are real: an audience of bots and AI scraping around for usable data that isn’t already AI generated would be …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This blog brought to you by Florence and the Machine’s High as Hope album. And some of Ceremonials. What The Water Gave Me is fantastic. Two big thoughts this week. (Not legitimately big, just the two discrete subjects I want to briefly discuss. Discreetly.) 1) The internet can …
Continue reading Restraint and Discernment : A Writer’s Thoughts for the Week
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have had a good week. I hope you have had one too. Now, on the eve of returning to work, I wish I had more time off. Isn’t that always the way? Too much time spent looking at the screen upon which I now type. But, I …
Continue reading Imagined History, Anticipated Rewrites, and Optimism
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’ve been doing some thinking recently. (Don’t we all? Don’t we all engage in thinking constantly? What does that phrase really mean, when you think about it?) I’ll start again. I have been engaging in a form of creative introspection recently. Life has been throwing distractions and stresses …
Continue reading What to write next? Time to trust the artistic gut
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Strange time to disengage, the week after releasing your book, but that’s what I did. Missed a blog, and a bit more. I’ve been busy. Living life. Losing sleep. Working, and working when not working. There was some all-consuming play in there too. New Orleans is very diverting. …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The Gardener and The Goddess is live for purchase! Ebook, paperback, hardback - the choice, my friends, is yours. A quick note to say thank you thank you to everyone who bought my book, and have allowed me to be the #1 new release in Inspirational Spiritual Fiction! …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! One week to publication! Thank you to all of you who have pre-ordered the kindle edition of my book, because The Gardener and The Goddess is currently the #1 new release in the Inspirational Spiritual Fiction section on Amazon! You can still pre-order here! And still available until …
Continue reading One week to publication!! (this is an exclamation Point heavy post – be Prepared.)
Roderick T. Macdonald 