(Wrote this in February but didn’t publish it. So I thought I might as well. In fact, spring didn’t really come to Oxford till this week. I’ll try and do a catch-up piece soon.) It’s sunny and the Thames is sparkling. My writing this morning isn’t. On St Valentines Day I got no cards or ... Read More
Tomorrow Click to Click: tales of internet dating will be free to download. Such a mix of sweet and sour and creepy and sad I’m not sure it is very suitable as a Valentine’s gift. Our experience to date suggests that these free download days do result in a lot of downloads. But I don’t ... Read More
Lots to do tomorrow, whizzing round the websites telling the world that our little ebook of dating stories Click to Click is going to be free to download. FREE TO DOWNLOAD FOR ONE DAY ONLY, I shall shout, SAVE £1-93. The theory is that the multitudes who download it will also actually read it, enjoy ... Read More
Don’t we all want unbiased feedback? What could be less biased than a computer programme? Autocrit tells you how many times you’ve used the same word or phrase, how many -ly adverbs, how many cliches. It counts words per line so that you can see whether you have a nice varied collection of sentences. And ... Read More
After a wasted half-hour trying to get to my blog on my new and disobedient iPad, I’m back with my trusty PC to send my thanks and best wishes to everyone who reads this. I’m looking out over the Thames which seems about to burst its banks (could that be a metaphor for something? What?) ... Read More
It would have been nice to report on a week’s Arvon course at Totleigh Barton in Devon and tell all three of my devoted readers how to write for radio. But it didn’t work out. I did go west and visited my friend Jane and her bulldog Oscar in Truro, Cornwall. It rained, as you ... Read More
The run of good luck with Ether Books continues. They have accepted ‘Out of the Sea: two Cornish Love Stories’ one of the sweetest, most feel-good things I have ever produced. The second acceptance was of ‘Googling the Wife’ – originally one of the nastiest – I had a horrible insensitive and mercenary protagonist. But ... Read More
With Amazon self-publishing you have easy access to your sales figures, but I gather you are not allowed to broadcast them. I wouldn’t want to. The picture I am trying to upload or insert provides a metaphor for how I am feeling.
