‘Bumper to Bumper’ is finished!

My ticket to an exclusive play performed at our house this Christmas, “Life of the Pokemon

A Writer is…In Print?

Last week Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: The Book was published that hit a couple of high no

A Writer is….Paid?

Double Rainbow – what does is mean? I sold a play! In August last year I received an ema

 

Goodnight Princess: looking for the ‘Internet Play’ Niche

May 2, 2010 in Uncategorized

Where will your writing take you?
I wrote my first webseries in 2008. The Evil League of Evil Applications Processing Office sprang forth after I saw Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and [...]

Monday is washing day

April 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

My Gran had six children
We used to love hearing her stories and often asked about what it was like “…in the olden days”. She used to laugh and tell [...]

Louis Gray Talks Tough on Inter-operability…

March 14, 2010 in Uncategorized

In a blog post last night Louis Gray talked about the challenges facing developers when considering the future of Real Time applications and uses.
In a shock move today, Louis has [...]

Feedback and advice from Seth Harwood

February 23, 2010 in Uncategorized

Prize comes home to roost
You might remember that I recently entered and won a competition run by author and podcaster, Seth Harwood. As my prize I choose to have a [...]

Editing, FTW. And Winning…FTW!

February 3, 2010 in Uncategorized

I’m in the process of editing my novel “Turning Left at Albuquerque” at the moment, which is a job I have long put off. I did some initial editing last [...]

More Query help from Querytracker

January 13, 2010 in Uncategorized

I’m a big fan of Querytracker.net. It makes the business of keeping track of the queries you send out actually manageable. There is also the querytracker.net blog which has a [...]

Why we write

December 8, 2009 in Uncategorized

Sometimes you need it spelled out…
I’ve been doing much soul-searching (some might call it navel-gazing) recently and trying to really get to grips with what being a writer means. Focus, [...]

Upgrading versus messing (delete means it’s gone)

October 27, 2009 in Uncategorized

So, last night I upgraded WordPress to the latest version. If you run WordPress you need to keep it updated because if you don’t you leave yourself open to security [...]

Surrey International Writer’s Conference 2009

October 24, 2009 in writing

I went to my first Writer’s Conference this week. The 17th annual Surrey International Writer’s Conference (SiWC) is being held at the Sheraton Vancouver Hotel in Surrey, BC, Canada (it’s [...]

Query letters part 2 – who/what/why?

September 30, 2009 in Uncategorized

In Part 1 I looked at the query letter business. You probably feel it is the work of the devil while you’re writing it, worrying about it and working out what [...]