The Conflict Thesaurus

The Conflict Thesaurus

This book from Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi, the authors of The Emotion Thesaurus, is the one I have been waiting for. The Conflict Thesaurus is set up like the other books in their series: part how-to, part thesaurus. This guide shows writers how to maximize...

Hello 2021

I would like to wish my clients, fellow editors, cover designers, authors, readers, and anyone else I’ve ‘met’ through 2020 a fabulous new year. I’m looking forward to 2021 bringing a return to normality (and I’m saying that as someone...
A new approach and an introduction

A new approach and an introduction

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about my editing business, more specifically about how far it’s come and how far I can take it. While it has certainly come a long way from the days of offering free edits in exchange for experience and...
R.R.Virdi: Grave Measures

R.R.Virdi: Grave Measures

What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of...
Colin P. Whittle: Celeste

Colin P. Whittle: Celeste

Chris Brown is unemployed and going nowhere in life. Living in a small flat in North London, he is heavily in debt and needs to find the money to repay the loan shark; or else. Answers to his problems come with the unexpected arrival of aliens from 600 light years...

Final Nanowrimo (2015) count

Although I completed my NaNoWriMo challenge on day fourteen with 51,056 words, I found I couldn’t just stop writing, even though I had other things to be getting on with. So I didn’t stop. I kept writing, deciding that while I was in the mood it would be a...