Writing commercially
Writing for an Audience, Commercial novels, Writers who want to make a profit are urged to write for an audience. I wrote Welcome to Oakhaven for my wife and I’m glad to say she enjoyed […]
Writing for an Audience, Commercial novels, Writers who want to make a profit are urged to write for an audience. I wrote Welcome to Oakhaven for my wife and I’m glad to say she enjoyed […]
This 1820 is the date of the last armed insurrection on mainland Britain and the Scottish Nationalists would like it portrayed as a struggle for Scottish independence. It was nothing of the kind. It was […]
This 1820 novel is a challenge and I will finish it in time. It’s not my style or genre, I suppose, and I’m going to let it stew for a while. I had laid out […]
I’ve sent fliers about King or Kaiser and Shadows in the Veldt to the Military History people. The books are fiction but they are based on actual incidents; docudrama, if you like. They are the […]
I’m afraid I have bounced about with my writing, a bit of this and a bit of that but when I started to proof the latest, about a flower show in a village, I knew […]
One reader of Welcome to Oakhaven commented that ‘she couldn’t stand THAT woman’. I must have made a better job of drawing Mrs Boniface than I realised.
I’ve had another encouraging comment about Welcome to Oakhaven from an old friend but a kick in the backside from my cousin for not getting the gardener’s book Best In Show published. Life’s full of […]
Someone asked what do I want to achieve with my writing, do I want to change the world? Not really, I want to take it on holiday.
People have asked where my characters come from. One friend even said she hoped she wouldn’t appear somewhere. She won’t, it’s mix and match, some people look dour but have a great sense of humour […]
Writing, e-books, publicity, selling, holiday reads – Seven of the books I’ve written are published as e-books and Welcome to Oakhaven as paperback but there’s more to it than just putting words on a page. […]