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Building an author brand (part two)
December 28, 2020

Building an Author Brand (Part 2)

Building an author brand is a key part of growing your reader community. This post details six steps to build your personal brand.

Memories of the Soft Toy Soap Opera
December 21, 2020

Memories of the Soft Toy Soap Opera

Hey, everyone, how’s it going? Today was supposed to be the second part of the author branding series but, I have to admit, it…

November 30, 2020

Building an Author Brand (Part 1)

It used to be that when we talked about brands, we generally meant a company with a recognisable logo, slogans, and so on. I…

November 23, 2020

Rambling About… How things are going

It’s been a busy week for me and, while I’d normally prep the week’s blog post by Sunday at the latest, here I am…

Rambling About... authors, authenticity, and accountability
November 9, 2020

Rambling about… Authorship, authenticity, and accountability

Hello! I apologise that it’s been a while – life stuff, you know? – but I’m back now and feeling the ever increasing panic…

October 20, 2020

Home, masks, and identity in transit

If nothing else can be said about 2020, it’s definitely been a year where I’ve had to carefully consider what things are really most…

"Difficult" books. S. on top of scattered pages from Composition No. 1
September 21, 2020

Author intention and “boring” books

This week’s post is vaguely a follow-on from last week’s discussion about R. F. Kuang’s The Poppy War and fantasy/familiarity. The whole review situation…

Dusky mountains that wouldn't be out of place in a fantasy world. But really it's Bangor.
September 14, 2020

Fantasy and Familiarity

I’ve been thinking a lot about the fantasy genre in the past couple of weeks. I mean, I think about it a lot generally…

September 5, 2020

Introductions (Part Three) – About My Research

Apologies for the delay in this blog post but, after some trouble with the website, I’m back! I’ve introduced me and Shifting Sands (along…

A mind map of my practice-based research on a pile of books
August 28, 2020

What is Practice-based Research?

So, since I’ve done Introductions part one and two, logically I should be doing part three, which is all about the research side of…

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