An Octopus of a Different Colour
Books. They need a cover. That’s where a lot of my time is spent when writing new books. I enjoy the work, but it does take a good portion of my free time. Now that I’ve done a few, it’s […]
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The Paranormology Series is for Free
Until the 1st of March 2023, you can grab the entire series of Paranormology, from Grosvenor Lane to Nadderwater Rise, all of it, for free on Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/store/books/series?id=5J73GgAAABAShM&gl=US That’s right. You’re not seeing things. Get all eight books […]
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What’s new Octo-pussycat?
Time off work arrives with a promise of being able to sleep in, lazily arranging one’s day to fit in desires rather than necessities. That promise quickly evaporates as Life, that indomitable force, struts into the room, shakes the bed, […]
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A Microsoft Word, PDF and Lulu issue – STYLEREF and MERGEFORMAT
Nadderwater Rise Ghost needed to be in paperback. Easy as pie, no worries, I’ll just format it as I usually do, slap on the Table of Contents, Copyrite and ISBN pages, create a paperback cover as a pdf and head […]
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Octopus Detective On Super Sale
Before I get onto a problem I had with converting a Microsoft Word document to PDF for printing to Lulu (compelling stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree), I thought I had better mention something more immediate, tangible and beneficial to everyone. […]
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Did you hear a ghost?
Good things come to those who wait, and never has that been more true than for Nadderwater Rise Ghost – because after much kerfuffle and a whole lot of hard yakka, the audiobook for Paranormology Book 8 has passed QA […]
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Releasing Nadderwater Rise Ghost in 3… 2… 1…
The day is almost upon us! The Eighth book of Paranormology is to be released on the 30th of October. If you can’t wait, that’s fine, I’ve set up a presale at Smashwords so you can get your mitts on […]
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Good News and Bad News
I have good news and I have bad news. First, the bad news. I have a cold. It’s a rotten cold that’s up in my nose and down in my throat. It has been on and off for the past […]
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I have an issue with working titles. Don’t get me wrong, I use them all the time, so it’s not like I’m against the concept. It’s a heck of a lot easier to refer to a project by name rather […]
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A New Ghost
It happened on Wednesday, the thirty first of August. I am currently working from home. I have a setup in the office with a computer, screen, keyboard, chair and all the necessities including coffee. That’s where I am right now. […]
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The Magic Word
It seems to happen every year. I have goals in mind. I set them out on a piece of paper with the best of intentions and plot a rough course (a coarse course?) of how I’ll get there, how long […]
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