When I first put keyboard to screen and Ellen’s Tale began, a short story as was, I had no idea what was to come. Apart from the short story ending up as a full length novel, who would have thought … [Read more...]
Nurturing the beast: An oldies take on Indie authorship
March 26, 2013 by
Last month was nature this week nurture. My sister once possessed a budgerigar which suffered a stroke, when it was about 2years old. In the way of children the pathetic bird was handed to my mother … [Read more...]
The Nature of the Beast – An Oldie’s Take on Indie Authorship (Part VIII)
February 26, 2013 by
Nature / nurture, the endless debate, can be carried through every subject so intermixed are genetics with socialization. But through writing? through Indie authorship? I think so. Differently for all … [Read more...]
Book Trailers Are Easy – Not! An Oldie’s Take on Indie Authorship (Part VII)
January 26, 2013 by
Sometimes I wonder if I am totally crazy. So make a trailer? Words spiral dizzingly in one’s head, words such as -what, how, why and so forth. I researched, I began, it takes time. Doesn’t … [Read more...]
Ebooks Are Easy: An Oldie’s Take on Indie Authorship (Part VI)
December 26, 2012 by
So it is Christmas time and according to many reports we are downloading e-books by the hundreds, buying eBook readers and generally enjoying an electronic revolution. I personally do not believe … [Read more...]
Blog Hops and Linkies: An Oldie’s Take on Indie Authorship (Part V)
November 26, 2012 by
So. How to build a cyber world for myself? Make myself known; interest others to read my books? How to find my way and survive in this strange new world, so different from that which I had grown … [Read more...]
The Fast Moving Cobweb: An Oldie’s Take on Indie Authorship (Part IV)
October 26, 2012 by
2010: Now I had a book, a web site, a Facebook account and a handful of friends but very little else. I confess there were many times over the next few months when I questioned my sanity in thinking … [Read more...]
Do it First, Not Afterwards: An Oldie’s Take on Indie Authorship (Part III)
September 26, 2012 by
Well it was great holding that first book – they were signed, wrapped and delivered, now what? I had decided already not even to try conventional bookshops. Without a ‘proper’ publisher … [Read more...]
A Real Book: An Oldie’s Take on Indie Authorship (Part II)
August 26, 2012 by
While my friend struggled with editing my dyspraxic writing and I struggled with software there were other considerations. Ellen is ultimately a story about the after effects of humans trashing the … [Read more...]
An Oldie’s take on Indie Authorship: ‘In the beginning’
July 26, 2012 by
I came into this world of writing quite late in life. I mean the world of actual print runs and publishing. I had of course scrawled naïve novels into exercise books in my childhood; they languish … [Read more...]
