Category: Self Publishing
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It’s a collage
It’s a collage, that’s what it is, it’s a coll-fucking-age
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about Busted and Crime and Coffee etc.mp3
just another rambling podcast partly about the book launch of Busted the other day
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Everyone’s a Writer and an Artist now
Apart from the odd shopping list or doodle, there was a time when the content most people created was limited to school work or writing reports at work. When the Internet took hold a small proportion of people started keeping blogs or journals of their thoughts online. Then Facebook and Twitter and all the other […]
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To Me – New Book coming soon
To Me is the title of my next book. It’s been written specifically for myself and it is dedicated To Me, but I don’t mind if others read it. I think everyone should have their own ‘To Me’ book. Luckily I have the experience and skills to publish my own. Using Print on Demand it […]
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The Artistic Imperative
The Artistic Imperative * Warning – this is a self-indulgent ramble * When I was young I was told I was very clever. ‘You are so intelligent,’ they used to say. I was also a very nice kid – generous, gentle, helpful and uncomplaining. I was full of life – ‘Fond of play’ as my […]
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Beats: Book 2 in the DI Frank Lee Trilogy
It’s probably a mistake but I’m the sort of person who likes to show the process as well as the finished product – so here are the first 5000 words or so of the very early draft of the second book in the trilogy of crime fiction stories featuring DI Frank Lee. The characters in […]
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a fat manuscript
With a bit of luck today will mostly be about beginning the final proofreading and possible minor edits of my ‘Bums’ manuscript . . . I’ve printed it out as a galley proof on one side of A4. This is so that there is plenty of free space to scribble comments and edits. I much […]
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a bit of a ramble about bums
Not those sorts of bums, I’ve told you before, you and your dirty mind. You and your associations and preconceptions, your preconditioning and your naive acceptance of the cultural hegemony. No, the sort of bums I’m talking about are the sort of people who live on the edges of ‘normal’ society – the homeless, the […]