February 8, 2021 Book Review: S. by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst For many readers, Shifting Sands might seem original – like it’s doing something new – and in some ways it is. I haven’t found…
February 1, 2021 The evolution of storytelling: The Secret Garden case study I’ve been trying to read more classics lately. It’s part of my on-going writerly self-improvement journey, which includes reading more diverse fantasy, reading more authors of colour, and reading more classics….
January 25, 2021 Story Ideas 1 (a.k.a the Graveyard of Abandoned Drafts, early years) I’m not going to lie, I found myself at a bit of a loss as to what I would write on here this week….
January 18, 2021 Building an Author Brand (Part 3) In this final entry of the Building and author brand trilogy, I’m going to go a bit introspective here and talk about some of the pros and cons of author branding. Also featuring rants about authenticity and mentions of Lucy Daniels.
January 11, 2021 Memories and Perspectives: Reflecting from a writer’s POV One of my earliest memories takes place in the living room of the first home I remember. It was sunny. I was playing Barbies with my sister. I’m pretty sure Princess Jasmine’s head had not yet been ripped off in a quest for vengeance. We were both little – I was probably around three years old. Then mum came in with two old people.
January 4, 2021 Goal setting: 2020 review and goal setting for 2021 Reflecting on 2020, I failed on many of the goals I set back in January. But I also achieved so much, despite all the things working against me. Here are some of my successes and failures, along with the academic goals I’m setting for 2021.
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.
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…
December 14, 2020 The hopes of an indie author There were a couple of interesting Twitter discussions this week. The first post I saw argued that any author claiming not to care about…
December 8, 2020 Shifting Sands Excerpt – Prologue As we race ever closer to the publication date of Shifting Sands – which you can see announced in the book trailer on Twitter…
