Writing the good fight and hopefully not writing wrongs!
Last updated MonAug2426
This is the sister website to Ian Wood's Novellum where I used to blog book reviews, but since I reached 5,000 reviews (give or take), I decided to retire from reviewing. I'm still reading; I'm just not gabbing about what I read anymore. The time I save on not reviewing any more books, I'll expend on more creative pursuits. I'm thinking-up ideas for stories far faster than ever I can write them so I really need the extra time. Either that or another six hands, three more brains, and three more computers.
Anyway: this is the place to come for updates on my novels, for rambling about writing them, for sneak peaks and sample chapters, and that's been taking shape. All of the children's, middle-grade, young adult, and adult-oriented novels I've written are available on Barnes and Noble, and Google books (hereinafter referred to as the Dynamic Duo). I refuse to do business with Amazon or with Kobo Books, so you will never find my novels there. As far as Apple is concerned, older work is available there but I've decided not to publish anything new on Apple because they seem to delight in placing obstacles in the way of publishing. And they used to be leaders in the creative world. How far have they fallen huh?
The most recently-released novel is titled Inker Bell. Yes, it is based extremely loosely on Tinker Bell, but is a completely different, wholly original story set in modern-day London. It's in fact another fairy story, set in the same world as Bad Fairy, Fairy Tale, Fifty Shades of Fae, Powers That Be, and Spelter Skelter. It stands completed at some 67,000 words, and is in sale now.
I am currently embarking upon probably the most ambitious project I've ever undertaken: three novels written in tandem. I have done before, but this particular trio is interconnected in a curious way. The central novel is of a writer who has had some success, but who is now rather languishing. As a source of income while trying to write his next novel, for which he has no publisher, he hires himself out as a consultant to other writers who may feel they need a professional advisor on their work, and one who doesn't charge an arm and a leg for his hints, tips and writing suggestions. A secondary nvoel is the one that this guy is supposedly writing. I will be writing it for him. It will be a bit of a lordly bodice-ripper after the manner of British author Jilly Cooper who died almost a year ago. Perhaps I can have this one completed for the first anniversary of her death this year. The third novel is one of those that is being written by someone who seeks aid and assistance from the writer, and with whom he eventually falls in love. That's it! Wish me luck!
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