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Review: The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd is a powerful work of landscape writing which, I suspect, will require multiple readings to truly appreciate. ‘Multi-layered’ does not do justice to its richness and depth. It’s perhaps the most
Five years since work began on OGJ
These notebooks, in which I wrote down everything I saw during my two visits to Zermatt in 2007 and 2008, proved vital to my future work In July 2007, my brother and I went to the Alps for the first time. We weren’t very experienced mountaineers at that point.
And once again I face the red pen of doom (aka. the mss has been sent for editing)
A terrifying sight Part of this blog’s new mission is to document the process of turning my manuscript into an ebook. Today I completed a very important step: submission for professional editing! Back in March I blogged a piece of very good news, namely that a literary agent had
Review: The Silver Dark Sea by Susan Fletcher
The Silver Dark Sea by Susan Fletcher Image from Amazon: http://goo.gl/US9gu My rating: ***** Like all of Susan Fletcher’s books, this is a full-on treat for the senses–or, at times, an assault. The story places the reader on the Scottish island of Parla, a place so
I am making progress
Since making the decision to ‘go indie’ last week I have been firing on all cylinders. Progress made so far: 1. Most obviously, this website is now in a far more presentable condition and ready to host whatever content I need to showcase. 2. I’ve been putting effort into
Review: Let’s Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should
Let’s Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should by David Gaughran My rating: 4 of 5 stars Before I started to read this book, I had made the decision to consider electronic self-publication, but was not yet completely convinced. I’d spent too many years studying what
Exciting new book release
The Silver Dark Sea by Susan Fletcher has been released today, and is available in both hardcover and Kindle formats. Sue is a good friend of mine and I had the privilege to work with her in Glencoe for two years. Some of her previous books have won awards, and
New design
I’m experimenting with a new blog design. The old one (which I haven’t actually been using for that long) was becoming cluttered, and I gradually came round to the view that white text on a black background isn’t actually that readable–hence my experiment with Blogger Dynamic
The first step
My mission to publish my novel as an eBook has started with a simple step–read as much as I can on the subject! To that end I have started to read “Let’s Get Digital” by David Gaughran. So far I’m part of the way through the section
One decade later …
The 1st of July, 2002, is the earliest electronic record of my writing activities. I had been writing for years before that date on a casual basis, inspired by fantasy artwork and role-playing games to create a fantasy world of my imagination, but that was the point when I finally