I was more than a little surprised when I logged into Google Reader on Thursday to be confronted with a message that the service would be closing in July, apparently due to a “lack of use”. I haven’t been keeping up with things so hadn’t heard rumblings of this, but apparently it’s been slated for […]
Read an Ebook Week – The Results
I’m not usually in favour of writers who post statistics, but I tried an experiment recently, and thought I’d blog about my results. I decided to make both The First Tale and Checkmate & Other Stories free for the duration of Smashwords’ Read an Ebook Week, and I kept a tally of how well downloads […]
#FridayFlash – Black Dog
My name is Samuel Phipps and I offer my position as a clerk within a firm of engineers as testament to my sanity. I can offer no other evidence as to the veracity of the events which I am about to relate, other than the testimony I shall lay before you. I was staying with […]
Read an Ebook Week – Free books!
It’s Read an Ebook Week over on Smashwords, so I’ve made my two self-published titles FREE between now and March 9. Simply enter the code “RW100” at the checkout to get the titles for free – they normally cost 99c. Remember, this offer finishes on Saturday. You can choose between The First Tale, and Checkmate […]
#FridayFlash – Don’t Look Back
A man broke into our house when I was nine. My dad was away on business – at least, that’s what Mom told me. I found out later he was visiting his new girlfriend in Hackensack. Anyway. This man broke in. Turned out he’d been stalking Mom for weeks – the papers later called him […]
Northern Spaces: Lighthouses
I was having a Twitter conversation on Sunday about what writers should actually blog about. I’ve seen a few people, both on Twitter and various blogs, asking writers not to blog about writing. It does get repetitive, I suppose, and I guess there are so many blogs about writing you have to wonder how you […]
