In my last post I mentioned some of the great things about reading and writing short stories, with special mention of the new Awesome Indies anthology.
One of the authors appearing in the anthology is Amy Spahn with a beautiful story called The Cost of Hope. On her blog, Amy has a great post titled 5 Things Short Stories Can Do that Novels Can't.
It's an interesting and insightful post in which Amy uses some of the stories from the anthology to illustrate her points. I'm thrilled she used Recipe for a Dinner Party as one of the examples. Head over to Amy's blog for some great reading.
And just a reminder that my new novel Still Death launches tomorrow (8th November) at the super-low price of $0.99 for the launch (it will be $2.99 post-launch). You can pre-order/buy it from the following retailers.
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Apple Store
Smashwords
Kobo Books
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07 November 2014
21 December 2012
Popular Posts and Christmas Wishes
I've just been looking through my blog stats and noticed this is post 100 for this year. Yay, as that means I'm not far off my goal for the year of posting twice a week.
I've been writing this blog for just over two years now and I've been amazed and humbled at how the readership has grown. When I first started it felt as though I was talking to myself, but then we writers are used to that!
My first posts were just before I had a publishing contract for Driftwood, and as I look back on them I realise how much I've learnt in that time and how much the publishing industry has changed, and the opportunities we now have as authors.
This time last year I published my second novel, Lives Interrupted, through Kindle and CreateSpace, and that was another learning curve.
The posts on my experiences on formatting and uploading a manuscript to Smashwords and KDP are searched regularly, and it's good to know they're useful. I've had some great emails from people asking questions and sharing their experiences.
I was interested to see what posts were the most popular for this year and thought I'd share links to the most viewed, excluding the formatting and uploading ones for Smashwords, KDP and CreateSpace as they're only interesting if you need the information.
So of the non-writing posts, one of the most viewed this year was The Sound of Thoughts. The photo of the Opera House is there because I wrote this post in Sydney.
Quite a few of the posts are writing related in some way, and another popular post was on Positive and Negative Character Traits, and this one on the topic and CSI.
I like sharing resources and interesting things I find and a TED talk inspired this post on what makes a good story, and I'm obviously not the only one who enjoys daydreaming.
It's been an interesting year, and I'm looking forward to 2013 and am busy concocting plans and goals for the things I want to achieve.
Lives Interrupted is free to download on Amazon US and Amazon UK today (21st December), and if you missed it, or are waiting for Santa to deliver your eReader, it will also be free on 26/27th December.
Have a great weekend.
I've been writing this blog for just over two years now and I've been amazed and humbled at how the readership has grown. When I first started it felt as though I was talking to myself, but then we writers are used to that!
My first posts were just before I had a publishing contract for Driftwood, and as I look back on them I realise how much I've learnt in that time and how much the publishing industry has changed, and the opportunities we now have as authors.
This time last year I published my second novel, Lives Interrupted, through Kindle and CreateSpace, and that was another learning curve.
The posts on my experiences on formatting and uploading a manuscript to Smashwords and KDP are searched regularly, and it's good to know they're useful. I've had some great emails from people asking questions and sharing their experiences.
I was interested to see what posts were the most popular for this year and thought I'd share links to the most viewed, excluding the formatting and uploading ones for Smashwords, KDP and CreateSpace as they're only interesting if you need the information.
So of the non-writing posts, one of the most viewed this year was The Sound of Thoughts. The photo of the Opera House is there because I wrote this post in Sydney.
Quite a few of the posts are writing related in some way, and another popular post was on Positive and Negative Character Traits, and this one on the topic and CSI.
I like sharing resources and interesting things I find and a TED talk inspired this post on what makes a good story, and I'm obviously not the only one who enjoys daydreaming.
It's been an interesting year, and I'm looking forward to 2013 and am busy concocting plans and goals for the things I want to achieve.
Lives Interrupted is free to download on Amazon US and Amazon UK today (21st December), and if you missed it, or are waiting for Santa to deliver your eReader, it will also be free on 26/27th December.
Have a great weekend.
08 July 2012
Beautiful Blogger Award
I had a lovely surprise when I logged onto Twitter the other day, and found that I'd been given the Beautiful Blogger Award - not sure whether it's supposed to be me that's beautiful, or the blog! Hopefully the blog.
Thank you to Di Jones for this award, and phew, no big award ceremony so I don't have to rush out and buy something new to wear.
I've done some research and discovered that instead of the award ceremony I have to:
1. Post the award logo on my blog (tick)
2. Acknowledge the person who nominated me (tick)
3. Tell you seven things you didn't know about me
4. Pass the award onto seven other people.
Okay here goes with the seven things you don't know about me.
I run first thing most mornings - not very far or very well, but as it helps with the writing inspiration I'm trying to keep it up.
I have a scar on my leg where I was burnt by a hot water bottle. Fortunately I was too young to remember it happening.
I've lived (in no particular order) in New Zealand, Cyprus, Germany, England, Scotland, Wales and spent a lot of my school summer holidays in Ireland as my mother was Irish.
At last count I've lived in around 20 houses - not surprising considering the point above.
I'd never broken a bone until about two years ago when I managed to break three at the same time.
Most of my mother's family were farmers, and during one memorable holiday (for the rest of the family - again I was too young to remember), I got chased by a flock of geese (which is probably the reason I don't like them) and managed to fall in a very muddy pond in my best dress.
I live about 10 minutes walk from the beach and would hate to live further away from it than that.
Time now to nominate seven blogs I enjoy reading, and therefore the new recipients of the Beautiful Blogger Award. Here they are (big drum roll) in no particular order.
Sarah Duncan - always great writing advice
David Gaughran - again great writing/marketing/publishing advice
Raptitude - musings on life and what makes humans do what they do
Rebecca Leith - a writer and blogger I discovered through Twitter
Anita Chapman - Anita has some beautiful photos on her blog and has collaborated in some great short stories - you can find the links on her blog
Catherine Ryan Howard - great advice on self-publishing and writing
New Hen on the Blog - a writing friend I met online
Duolit - Publishing/marketing advice
Oops that's eight, now you also know I can't count!
Thanks heaps to these bloggers, and all the many others that share their experiences and knowledge. Have a great week.
Thank you to Di Jones for this award, and phew, no big award ceremony so I don't have to rush out and buy something new to wear.
I've done some research and discovered that instead of the award ceremony I have to:
1. Post the award logo on my blog (tick)
2. Acknowledge the person who nominated me (tick)
3. Tell you seven things you didn't know about me
4. Pass the award onto seven other people.
Okay here goes with the seven things you don't know about me.
I run first thing most mornings - not very far or very well, but as it helps with the writing inspiration I'm trying to keep it up.
I have a scar on my leg where I was burnt by a hot water bottle. Fortunately I was too young to remember it happening.
I've lived (in no particular order) in New Zealand, Cyprus, Germany, England, Scotland, Wales and spent a lot of my school summer holidays in Ireland as my mother was Irish.
At last count I've lived in around 20 houses - not surprising considering the point above.
I'd never broken a bone until about two years ago when I managed to break three at the same time.
Most of my mother's family were farmers, and during one memorable holiday (for the rest of the family - again I was too young to remember), I got chased by a flock of geese (which is probably the reason I don't like them) and managed to fall in a very muddy pond in my best dress.
I live about 10 minutes walk from the beach and would hate to live further away from it than that.
Time now to nominate seven blogs I enjoy reading, and therefore the new recipients of the Beautiful Blogger Award. Here they are (big drum roll) in no particular order.
Sarah Duncan - always great writing advice
David Gaughran - again great writing/marketing/publishing advice
Raptitude - musings on life and what makes humans do what they do
Rebecca Leith - a writer and blogger I discovered through Twitter
Anita Chapman - Anita has some beautiful photos on her blog and has collaborated in some great short stories - you can find the links on her blog
Catherine Ryan Howard - great advice on self-publishing and writing
New Hen on the Blog - a writing friend I met online
Duolit - Publishing/marketing advice
Oops that's eight, now you also know I can't count!
Thanks heaps to these bloggers, and all the many others that share their experiences and knowledge. Have a great week.
07 November 2011
100
Recently I celebrated a year of blogging, and I've just realised that this is the 100th post. It's been an interesting journey and I'm still learning. It took me a while before I discovered how to schedule posts for future dates, and I'm playing catch up adding tags to posts so they can be searched by topic.
When I started I didn't have too much of a plan. I wanted to write about my publishing and writing experiences hoping they might be of help, or at least interest, to someone else. I don't think I posted at regular intervals at first, but one of my writing goals at the beginning of the year was to post twice a week. I chose that as I didn't think I could come up with something everyday. Sometimes I have an abundance of ideas and write several posts at once, and at other times, well I'm sure you get the picture.
Sometimes I've read, heard, or seen something and immediately thought I'm going to blog about that. Occasionally I realise how much I talk about writing, and how boring it probably is to those who don't share my passion. It has also made me realise how important writing is to me, and what a big part of my life it is.
Here's to the next 100 posts.
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