Making good progress towards publishing ‘Dead Snow’…

I’ve made good progress in the past week towards being able to publish ‘Dead Snow’: Book Launch Marketing Checklist – complete Target Audience Profile – complete Launch Plan – Started Kindle format file – nearly ready (trialling on Kindle devices) CreateSpace paperback file – nearly ready I’m looking forward to seeing this book ‘fly theContinue reading “Making good progress towards publishing ‘Dead Snow’…”

‘Dead Snow’ is due to be published in Feb ’17…

Things are moving quickly now that the writing is finished for my next sci-fi novel called ‘Dead Snow‘. Over the past week I have been completing all the last minute checks and started formatting the book for the Kindle. Once the e-book version is ready I’ll start working on a paperback copy on CreateSpace. OneContinue reading “‘Dead Snow’ is due to be published in Feb ’17…”

Completed the first draft of ‘Dead Snow’…

I finished the first draft of ‘Dead Snow’ on New Year’s Eve 2016 – that’s exactly one year after finishing ‘An End of Beginnings’! I’m now at the embellishing/polishing/formatting stage and am aiming to publish in 2 months’ time. Although this novel was ‘completed’ 1 year after AEOB, the writing only really got going inContinue reading “Completed the first draft of ‘Dead Snow’…”

Writer’s blog – “Keeping control of your characters…”

  My latest blog update is about creating well-written characters – see http://tinyurl.com/obnp33o Good fiction stories are about people, not places or things. They give relief from our normal lives and enable us to have other experiences through our imaginations. Well-written characters can come to have a special meaning for us at an emotional levelContinue reading “Writer’s blog – “Keeping control of your characters…””

How to load .mobi books onto Kindle e-readers…

Many people either simply don’t know that they can load other free books onto an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, or they are too worried about trying in case they ‘break something’. That is a shame because the Kindles can read .mobi format e-books very well, presenting them from the reader’s perspective in the same wayContinue reading “How to load .mobi books onto Kindle e-readers…”

“X-Minus 1 radio dramas…”

Between 24th April 1955 to 9th January 1958, NBC broadcast a series of half-hour sci-fi radio stories under the title “X-Minus One”. These were small-cast productions, not just a narrator reading out loud, and the quality is often pretty good. The collection includes some classic stories from well known writers and I have 3 particularContinue reading ““X-Minus 1 radio dramas…””