You’ll have to read my review of Robert Duperre’s book, The Fall, to find out. But if you’re a regular reader of my reviews I bet you’ll be able to guess what I thought of this book.
Does The Self-Publishing Review Fall For Robert Duperre?
The Self-Publishing Review Goes In Search Of The Menopause Ranch
Today at The Self-Publishing Review we set off on a journey In Search Of The Menopause Ranch, courtesy of Deborah Vaughn. I am usually so good at navigating but I might have lost my way this time.
Travelling To The Self-Published Review
Today at The Self-Publishing Review I follow The Tourist Trail, by John Yunker. It was not the easiest of journeys.
Lost In Translation At The Self-Publishing Review
Today at The Self-Publishing Review I look at A Salute To Spanish Poetry, a collection of poems “rendered into English verse” by John Howard Reid. It’s the first translation I’ve reviewed and without wishing to put a damper on things, I don’t think I’ll be reviewing many more.
Remixing The Self-Publishing Review
This morning we have a writer with potential at The Self-Publishing Review as Lexi Revellian, author of Remix, takes the stage. It’s a good one.
Among Us Women At The Self-Publishing Review
It’s Joan Lerner’s turn to brace herself today: my review of her book Among Us Women is now up at the Self-Publishing Review. I hope she’s had a cup of coffee.
Stupid Plot Tricks–Or, When Too Much Is A Good Thing
Here’s a great piece about plot-building from editor supreme, Teresa Nielsen Hayden: The Evil Overlord Devises A Plot. The article was written twelve years ago but hasn’t dated at all. It’s specifically for writers of science fiction: some of us might have trouble translating the plot devices into our preferred genre, but it still gives…
Mousetrapped At The Self-Publishing Review
Today at The Self-Publishing Review I look at Mousetrapped, by Catherine Ryan Howard. This is one of a batch of half a dozen or so reviews which I originally scheduled to appear last year but which somehow slipped through the net: my apologies for the delay.
And I Thought The Kerning Game Was Good!
Ladies, gentlemen and Nicola Morgan, following the success of the Kerning Game I now bring you… Shape Type! I find it far more interesting to create extraordinary new typefaces (ha!) and so instead of getting very high scores on this game, I’m getting quite extraordinarily low ones. I am obviously a trend-setter. Or incompetent. Or…
From My Postbox: Book Marketing To Get Published
I receive several emails every day asking me for advice and I always do what I can to help. But a few months ago it occurred to me that if I were to respond to these emails in a more public way, more people could weigh in on the conversation–and more people might benefit from…
Guest Post: Nicola Morgan and Write A Great Synopsis
…or, What Was I Thinking? Several weeks ago the writing whirlwind that is Nicola Morgan got one of her many scary assistants to ask me if I’d be willing to host a guest post from the Great Crabbit One. At the time I was feeling somewhat weak (translation: I’d had a couple of glasses of…
Do You Write Flash Fiction?
If so, you might want to sign up to this. Nik Perring’s flash fiction course. He knows what he’s doing, and is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met online.
Sally Zigmond And The Kindle Rush
My best friend Sally Zigmond has written a very useful post about the rush to self-publish to the Kindle. As is ever the case with Sally’z articles, this one is well worth a read.
Celebrity Culture Or Cashing In?
Last month’s announcement that Penguin had signed Pippa Middleton to write a party-planning book for an advance reported to be close to £500,000 caused a bit of a stir in the writing-related corner of the internet. For a couple of days Twitter was clogged with editors, agents and writers despairing about the deal and even…
How To Write Sex Scenes
Just as with anything you write, it’s important to make your sex scenes credible. I’ve blogged before about Stacia Kane’s great little book, Be A Sex-Writing Strumpet, which provides excellent, detailed advice for writing sex scenes which are not only credible but compelling; but if you want a quick primer you won’t find better than…
What Publishers Want
I read this on Twitter a couple of days ago and I really like it. It’s so simple, and yet it answers so many questions. Isn’t that fabulous? Now all we have to do is write those books.
IP Addresses Confusion
There hereby follows a rather lengthy explanation which ends with a simple question: would someone please explain how IP addresses work in a way that a very non-techy person could understand it? Because I have a bit of a problem here which I need your help with. As some of you might know, some of…
A Query Letter Template
I’ve seen all sorts of query letter templates over the years, and most of them have been pretty dubious: but this one is marvellous, and comes to us courtesy of Joel Bruns at The Hub. It only really works for a certain sort of YA fiction, but I’m sure that given half an hour and…
How Dreams Come True
Catherine Ryan Howard has written an excellent post in which she discusses how our chances of getting a publishing deal are not equal: Right now, the self-publishing evangelists would have you believe that it’s easier to get struck by lightning in the jaws of a shark while holding a winning lottery ticket than it is…