Category: Literary Industry
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Reading List 2017
So I’m being a little more ‘read-y’ this year, and reading books again. I normally get through a book a month for bookclub, and usually do audiobooks, but I decided I have an obscene TBR pile and it needed to be read. They’re all dead-tree books too, which I find helps me focus on reading…
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Fablecroft’s ‘Insert Title Here’ coming out soon
Fablecroft is launching their slightly delayed new anthology, ‘Insert Title Here’, and I have a strange story about giant island fishes and political corruption in it, with a little bit of a throwout to the Voyage of Saint Brendan: The earliest extant version of The Voyage of Saint Brendan was recorded around AD 900. There are over…
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‘Suspended in Dusk’ launched!
Suspended in Dusk is finally out! My writing pal Simon Dewar collected and edited this despite all the exciting pitfalls of ‘My First Anthology Project’ and while eyeing off the impending Twinpocalypse looming down on his family. There are a bunch of amazing authors in here who are much more famous than I, and so…
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Tom and Nyssa Talk Zombies (with @Cacotopos and @VintageZombie)
When I talk zombies online, I inevitably talk zombies with my Twitter pal Nyssa Harkness, who is writing (and apparently finishing it before she dies) a Masters thesis on zombies in literature and film. OY! Oh hey! Today Nyssa joins me to talk about zombies in film and literature! I’ve marked my text in black and hers…
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Part 2 – Setting Up Your Online Shop
We’re onto Part 2 of our exciting adventure. The amusing header image here is courtesy of http://onlyhdwallpapers.com Time to Build a Shop By now you should have a handful of short stories converted into .epub, or at the very least one short story, from Part 1. If not, that’s cool, too. Stick around, and, uh,…
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Part 1 – Dance with me: Converting a Word .doc into clean HTML for ePub
Well, how could you resist an article with such a sexy, non-technical title? Part 1 – Converting a .doc file into clean HTML To go back to the main article, click here. Introduction The first part of our walkthrough is the hardest: finding a story you can sell. I’ve chosen to sell only previously published…
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Selling Your Shorts All By Your Lonesome
And no, I don’t mean pants. People! Honestly. This is a serious blog. I use swears sometimes. Introduction Books are complicated beasts. Books need legitimacy, and legitimacy is an ISBN. That’s a way for people to order your book. It files you in the Great Big Library in the Cloud. There’s no such unique code…
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Shouldn’t you be writing another book or something, you lazy fuck? (HT: @horrorshowflick)
Yet another article on the perils of procrastination? Or merely an opportunity to throw in some alliteration? And then a rhyme? Got a nice little story you’re working on there, hmmm? It seems these days there are a billion distractions that look like writing. The core mantra of writing is ‘just write’, which means, oddly…
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A Writing Process (To Wit, The Writing Process That is Mine)
The Writing Life Once you start writing more professionally (and by that I mean more regularly, for money), I find it’s important to establish some kind of process to help write a story on demand. This is opposed to the generally perceived writing process, which I believe is a variation on ‘Well the sun has…
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Danse Macabre is on its way!
So I have the pleasure to have a short story in a new anthology coming out by Edge Publishing, in October 2012. Danse Macabre is a collection of stories about ‘Close Encounters with the Reaper’. Specifically, Nancy Kilpatrick, the editor, was looking for stories featuring different people in different professions and walks of life, encountering…
Dark Sylvan Ungulate 