And now it begins …….
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Genres I Just Can’t Write
I love a good horror story: not one connected with zombies or chain saws mind, but ghosts, vampires and witches are fair game. I don’t even mind a brush with the Prince of Darkness in fiction. So when an opportunity presented itself to submit a short story to a Halloween […]
Guest Post: Author Kayla Krantz
I am currently reading What I Did by Kayla Krantz. You will get a review when I finally finish it (long story – but hard to concentrate on reading when you have concussion) but I couldn’t wait that long to give you guys some insight into this wonderful book. So […]
Deceptive Title – As Well As Repetitive
Book Review: When the Screaming Stops – The Dark Side of the Bay City Rollers Author: Simon Spence Pages: 568 First Published: 2016 – Omnibus Press Goodreads As I have said in a previous book review, I was a massive Bay City Roller fan. Massive. Having read Shang-a-lang by Les […]
Book Review: Shang-a-lang
Book: Shang-a-lang: My Life With the Bay City Rollers Author/s: Les McKeown, with Lynne Elliott Published: 2003 – Mainstream Publishing Amazon Like most teenage girls in the 1970s, I loved the Bay City Rollers. As I got older, I realised that they were not the clean-cut boys they were presented […]
Thoughts for Thursday – How many blogs in a week?
Tearing my hair out is not a good look. But that is essentially what I am doing since I committed to posting twice per week. So – just how often do I need to blog to be effective? (I am seriously hoping that the answer is one a week). Michael […]
So – just how long should a blog be?
I know that so many beginning bloggers want the answer to this one. How short is too short? How long is too long? So I thought now was a good time to have a bit of a look at it for myself. According to Hook Agency, ‘[t]he best blog length […]
Thoughts for Thursday
Okay – blog progress time. My first goal was simple in theory but requires perseverance: Specific: Post twice per week: one a little short one, one a bit more substantial. Measurable: Starting in the first week of February, I will be posting twice per week. (Monday and Thursday – unless […]
New logo for the new approach
As regular readers of my blog will know, I’m going through a bit of a reinvention phase when it comes to the non-fictional aspects of my writing. As part of that process, I decided that a new logo – or really, getting a logo, was required. As you will see […]
Experimenting with the blog 3: Blog Goals
We all know that basic rule of success: set realistic goals. When it comes to my blog, I have yet to set any goals, let alone realistic ones. Typical me really – I think I’m all planned, but really I have just blindly set off and don’t worry about where […]
