Today I’m interviewing a musician about his band’s new album. And while I love music, that doesn’t mean this blog is turning into a music magazine… so why this interview? Well, Transference is releasing a new album, The Navigators, and it will be accompanied by a book, written by Transference’s coordinator and main songwriter, Mike Puskas, who …
Today I’m interviewing another fellow writer, Alexander M Zoltai, author of Notes from An Alien and Strange Fantasies. I’m sure you all can’t wait to get to know Alexander, so let’s just ask him, shall we? First of all, could you tell us a bit about yourself? I was born in 1946 to a Scottish mother …
Roll up, roll up, roll up! Sorry, I promise I won’t do that again. I was just looking for a good introduction for the very first Q&A here on my good-as-new author blog. This one is with a fellow indie author (as will all the future Q&As be, unless I can get a multi-million celebrity interested)… …
Sorry about not posting last week – my internet was down because some diggers (treasure hunters?) with machinery decided it would be fun to hit a cable. I’m completely back now though, or at least until I get my new PC some time next week, which will mean another short period of absence from the …
After the previous episode, it’s time to look at some more quotes from Bleak House and see how you can use them to inspire you in your own writing. Reminiscing Characters “A family home,” he ruminates as he marches along, “however small it is, makes a man like me look lonely. But it’s well I …
Welcome to the first edition of Choicest Cuts, a feature that’s all about the best bits from books I’ve read, with some writing advice sprinkled in. If you were expecting something about actual meat as opposed to literary victuals, I have to disappoint you, because I don’t eat meat. Also, don’t expect this to be …
You may have already noticed the link to the Clean Indie Reads site, over there, somewhere to the right. In case you’re wondering, let me enlighten you: CIR is an excellent initiative by Lia London, who was (understandably) rather tired of having to sift through oodles and oodles of pages of books full of swearing, …
I know this site is all about writing, and video games are these things where you run and jump and blow people up, so they have no business being here, right? Well, if you think that, you’d be wrong. Video games can be hugely inspiring to writers. Sometimes it helps kill some time when you’re …
The internet can be a pretty depressing place. Looking at sites where people can talk to each other online (forums, LinkedIn communities, Facebook groups) in particular is a sure-fire way of devastating the trust you might have in humanity. Perhaps it’s best to avoid those places altogether, but they are able to give one some insight into …
