Academic, writer, storyteller, digital creator.
Good morning, friends and fans – and fellow writers! The topic I’ll be addressing in this article – to paraphrase the Bard, is: To withdraw, or not to withdraw? That is the question! And what a question it is, right? I mean, context is everything. As writers, most of us submit our stories to any…
Hello there, friends and fans! The Citizen newspaper on October 12, 2020 printed an article entitled “Threats against Satanic Church reverend’s life and family”. The article describes how Reverend Tristan Kapp – pictured in the accompanying photograph, has endured death threats on social media – extending also to members of his family, and how individuals…
Hello there, friends and fans! Today I’ll be doing a review of the Sinotec SJ86C projector. I’ve owned two of these devices, and they make a bit of a story as you will see. To sum up: This is a great little projector – if you only need it to work for about two months….
These days, writers – especially self-published writers – typically need to do their own marketing, book and cover design and… well, everything! In the course of my own writing journey, I encountered some good resources and added them to my list – and thought it might be a good idea to share it with other…
“Where can I find your books?” A reader’s question – and a writer’s dilemma. After all, readers are likely to find your books where you, the author, have put them. Levity aside, as far as self-publishing authors are concerned, I’ve found that many of my peers will simply choose one publishing platform and then stick…
Hello there, friends and fans! The scandal around J.K. Rowling’s transphobia has been going on for quite a while now, since last year if memory serves. Just this past week however, Ms. Rowling appears to have unseated several silly internet meme trends and other media red herrings to take the top-spot in my Facebook and…
This morning I was alerted by a post in one of the writers groups I belong to on Facebook – about a website that’s been ripping off dozens of authors by selling their books from their website without due process or authorization, and keeping the profits for themselves. The name of the website – Bookinistika….
Good morning, friends and fans! I often see writers posting about the length of different categories of works, asking what word length makes a story “short”, how many words make a novel? Are there any types of marketable story between them? A while ago, to find out, I consulted that all-knowing trove of knowledge –…
Imagine for a moment what it’s like being an indie author. It’s not that difficult I think – especially when put into the pretty harsh light of marketing. Basically when you’re indie, it means that if you don’t market yourself, you don’t get marketed at all. Social media plays a vital role in this self-promotion…
Looking back, it doesn’t seem all that long ago that I first started writing my Galaxii scifi series. As it turns out, that was back in 1991 – my final year of high school – when I first started writing the backstory of Galaxii. It was futuristic, it was distantly post-apocalyptic, that is, it was…