In the past week I’ve read two articles about how more often blogs and twitter are now driving interest in books and sales. The first was a post from Alan Baxter, talking about comments he’d seen in a post by the agent Nathan Bransford. The second came via a link via twitter. in a post [...]
Archive for June, 2009
WOW.com has just put up a video of the World of Warcraft Tauren druid forms, both bear and cat, for viewing. It comes in at 10 minutes and shows all the various colours available. Can’t wait to try them myself.
Preview Of Volume Three
Posted: June 29, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: ezine, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Seeing as how the rough drafts of the stories for Volume Three of Pure Escapism are coming along so nicely, I thought I’d just do a quick preview of what is coming out in it, which included the return of a few old friends. The story previously called The Village, which had been slated for [...]
I Knew I Shouldn’t Have Done It
Posted: June 28, 2009 in writing updateTags: sci-fi, writing, writing update
I went to the movies yesterday. I had been tossing up whether to go or not – it had been a while since I last went and I should have really been writing. But in the end I went. I ended up seeing Transformers 2. The first one had been decent, but not great, and [...]
Another One Down
Posted: June 28, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: ezine, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
Just finished off the third short story rough draft for Pure Escapism Volume Three. Only one more to go and I can start the major task of editing. The fourth one is going to be the longest, but I hope to have its draft completed by the end of the month, just a couple of [...]
I’ll admit it. I’m a fan of fantasy. The books, the movies, the games. I’ve always been a fan, even when I didn’t know it. I was proud to admit it through my schooling days, and still am. Yet we aren’t always taken seriously. So I was pleased to come across the following post – [...]
Pushing Forward
Posted: June 27, 2009 in Pure Escapism, writing updateTags: ezine, Podcast, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
After finishing the second volume of Pure Escapism, I know I said I was going to move back to the novel, but somehow that hasn’t happened yet. Instead I’ve been working on the third volume and to date have two rough drafts done for stories, and two more in progress. One of those is plotted [...]
Just came across this site (possibly via twitter – can never keep track of what linked to what anymore) called Free Fiction (Online). Basically it is what is says it is – a site dedicated to seeking out and sharing all the free fiction that is around on the ‘net. Worth keeping an eye out [...]
I’m Not Too Sure About This…
Posted: June 26, 2009 in Podcast, Pure EscapismTags: Podcast, Pure Escapism, Short story, writing, writing update
I’m almost a bit reluctant to post this, but we’ll see how it goes. I thought I might try fiddling around with a podcast. Scary I know. It is just testing the waters really, and I apologise in advance. It would certainly work better with someone else doing the reading… This first test ‘cast is [...]
I’m an early riser. If the sun is up, I have to be up. I’ve always been that way. However, I really don’t take advantage of that. I get up and the first thing I do is wade through mail and blogs and twitter and forums and webcomics and news and the like. Then comes [...]
