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…
November 18, 2020 Revealing the Shifting Sands Covers Ready to see the Shifting Sands book covers? I’m excited (and a little terrified) to finally show them to you. If all you’re here…
November 16, 2020 Creating Fantasy Book Covers As I move ever closer to releasing Shifting Sands into the world, I’ve had to move into dealing with some of the details that…
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…
October 5, 2020 Writing Resources – Worldbuilding There’s nothing I love more than seeing how other people do the things I do. Like writing. Do they start with a character and…
September 28, 2020 Fantasy Tropes – The Chosen One The last couple of posts have been quite focused on my research side so, for this week, I thought I’d continue talking about fantasy…
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…
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…
