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The blog tour rumbles ever onwards and today you can find me over at Publetariat.com. Publetariat is is an online community and news hub built specifically for indie authors and small, independent imprints. I’m a regular contributor over there myself and this time around site founder April Hamilton interviews me about why I chose...
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There are a lot of things like this out there, but this is one of the best, most succinct and well-written examples I’ve ever seen. I found it via Joanna Penn (you may remember her from Day 1 of the blog book tour) who passed on the link via Twitter (you can find Jo...
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Today I move on to the US and I’m kindly hosted by action adventure author (and good friend of mine) David Wood. David had me share a post with another author, Sean Ellis, and we both talk about what’s involved in writing a good fight scene. Once again, feel free to share your thoughts...
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Sometimes I just can’t be bothered with these things and other times they catch my interest. This one caught my eye over at BT’s Musings Of An Aussie Writer blog. I thought I might drop it in here to break up the blog book tour a bit, especially as we’re switching from Australian hosts...
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Back at the end of June I was very happy to annouce that my short story Parklife had won a place in the Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 contest. You can read that post here. All the winning entries have been bought and published in an anthology, which is free and exclusively available through...
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The blog book tour continues today with an interview at the Brascoe Publishing blog. Brascoe is an Australian indie publisher doing interesting things and they were kind enough to interview me about the process of self and indie publishing. Blog Book Tour Day Two at Brascoe Publishing – Click here. .
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So after all this planning, let’s hope this thing works out as it’s supposed to. Day One of my virtual book tour has arrived and the first stop is the blog of Joanna Penn. Joanna’s site is called The Creative Penn and is full of stuff all about writing, self-publishing, print-on-demand, internet sales and...
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The virtual book tour that I’ve been arranging starts on Monday. I blogged the itinerary here a couple of weeks ago. I’m very pleased to say that the whole thing has started early with an interview with Smashwords founder Mark Coker. In the interview I talk about what a blog book tour is and...
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I read about this in the Sydney Morning Herald today and it gave me quite a chuckle over my cereal. The Catholic Church, along with pretty much every other religion, is no stranger to desperately shoehorning “facts” into things to keep their dogma relevant. Anyone that’s ever read the Bible knows that it takes...
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I’m off skiing for a few days now, back next Friday, so things might be a bit quiet around here for a little while. Use the time to catch up on some reading, maybe, or crochet that hat you’ve always wanted. Feel free to stay in touch as I’ll check in now and then...
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