The biggest problem independent authors have is marketing their wares. You could write the best book ever, potentially an award-winning classic, but if nobody knows about it, you might sell ten copies and that’s that. Sure, the very best form … Continued
The tunnel is the on-going drama of looming lockdowns, QR codes at every store, masks at the merest sniff of one person being infected with covid. If you’re a pessimist, you’d be saying that’s the light of the on-coming train. … Continued
Pets in Space 6 goes live on 5th October! If you pre-ordered, for the lucky folks in New Zealand and Australia, that means you should have found your copy in your in box. For the rest of you – patience, … Continued
You might recall that several weeks ago our three-week-old car was stolen from our locked garage. Tap this link to read the story. The incident threw a spanner into our relatively comfortable lives. We’d felt secure here, and that illusion … Continued
Only one more week until you can have Pets in Space 6 for your very own! Remember, 10% of pre-orders and the first month’s orders will go to Hero dogs, a wonderful charity that trains service dogs for veterans and … Continued
The scenes on the TV were the sort of thing you expect from Paris, where rioters in fluoro vests clashed with police. It certainly isn’t the sort of behaviour I would associate with Melbourne, Australia. It started when construction workers … Continued
I first met Terry Pratchett’s books in a news agency at Perth airport many years ago. I was looking for a book to read on the 5 hour flight to Sydney and idly picked up a paperback with a colourful … Continued
The Queensland parliament finally passed a Voluntary Assisted Dying bill this week, the fifth of the six Australian states to do so, leaving NSW as the only state where euthanasia is not legal. People wishing to avail themselves of the … Continued
I’m an independent author, a writer who has decided to publish my own books instead of scrabbling to get a contract with a publishing company. I’ve published with small companies before and I’ve decided it’s not for me. I prefer … Continued
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the terror attack on the world trade centre in New York. I guess we all have memories of that event but the media is full of it, so I’ll talk about a less heinous … Continued