New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 9 – Joanna Penn

Joanna Penn is a person at the vanguard of indie authorship. She runs The Creative Penn website and has made a name for herself with her self-published books, How to Enjoy Your Job (2008), From Book to Market (2009) and From Idea to Book (2009). She’s also a...

ThrillerCast, episode 11 is up

The latest episode of ThrillerCast is up with myself and fellow Gryphonwood author, David Wood. It’s called ThrillerCast, but we talk about all kinds of genre fiction, as usual. This time it’s an episode mainly about description, and what kinds of...

Free fiction and the value of our efforts

The advent of the internet has had many effects, not least of which is giving a voice to pretty much everybody. We’re all sitting at keyboards making noise, like a flock of a billion seagulls fighting over one bag of chips. It’s not a bad thing, as far as...

I talk about ebooks at jiraiya.com

Recently Shane Jiraiya Cummings guest posted here talking about his experience so far with his great ebook experiment. Well, what goes around and all that – Shane asked if I’d guest post on his blog, talking about my own ebook experience, so I did. You can...

Apple wants to have its cake and eat it

That is such a stupid expression. If you have a cake, of course you want to eat it. What’s the point of having a cake if you don’t intend to eat it? You going to wear it or something? It’s like saying, “Oh you don’t just want a car, you...