Research. How important is it?
When you read a novel, particularly an historical one, are you the kind of person who is upset if you can see it’s not historically accurate? I know a lot of people do get upset at this type of thing. Being a pedantic person, I have avoided writing an historical novel so far, because I […]
Do novels make life seem easy?
Last week I was talking about the torture that exists if you have to wait for the sequel of your favourite novel to be released. I’m starting to wonder if it might not be a good thing. A friend of mine posted a link to an interesting article at Huffington Post about the Gen Y […]
Playing the waiting game
When I first wrote my trilogy and tortured my good friends by giving them one chapter at a time, I admit that it was kind of fun. Then they encouraged me to try and get The Heir and its sequels published … but that meant that I couldn’t really give them anything else of the […]
Lost Opportunities
I’m a writer. I have been writing stories since I was about eight years old. What I write may have varied over the years, but it has always been a constant in my life. My father’s a writer. His first book was published almost thirty years ago. He’s kept going since then, and now has […]
I edit my own work. Isn’t that enough?
In a word – no. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a professional editor. It can be difficult to notice, but no one ever sees all the mistakes in their own books. This is the case whether we are talking about simple spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, or the larger mistakes people tend to […]