The road winds through the bleak landscape, disappearing over the horizon. The rain is relentless. The wind, a hand at your throat. There are times this feels less a walk and more like a sojourn. What am I looking for? Easy. An answer to the question why Lauren and her family run? How likely isContinue reading “The Road Lesser Travelled …”
Category Archives: Self-Publishing
If You Go Down the Woods …
I take a break from the storm of Lauren and Jake’s lives, and face instead, the storm raging outside. Buffeted by sheets of rain and a wind, part friend, part foe, I go looking for inspiration. Or at least something to brush the cobwebs from my head. Three and a half thousand words later, andContinue reading “If You Go Down the Woods …”
So It Begins …
Finally, I’ve found the perfect place to hole-up and finish the second book. After a weekend of walking on moors American backpackers should be wary of, watching five horror movies, almost back-to-back, reading Clive Barker where pretty much everything is hell bound, my iPod shuffles through score upon score from Stephen King movies — MichaelContinue reading “So It Begins …”
Working on the Cover
I’ve put it off for too long. Procrastination. Avoidance. Call it what you will, but we all face it. The deadline for the second book is approaching and it’s about time I started designing the cover. Sometimes you can see an image forming in your head, step-by-step, emerging out of the creative darkness. When thatContinue reading “Working on the Cover”
The Injury of Hope
So I went and did it again. I entered my first novel in another competition. Glutton for punishment or eternal optimist? Am I a fool to blow the tiny marketing budget this way? Or is this a clever move, but only if I win? Am I donating to the not so needy or using opportunitiesContinue reading “The Injury of Hope”
Hello, Is There Anyone Out There?
After an unexpected silence and the terror of how quickly we all forget, here I am testing. One. Two. Three. Trying to remember how I did this website thingie, and the whole ‘posting’ malarky. Oh, of course, since I last played there have been updates. Improvements. And so I am totally confused. But here goes.Continue reading “Hello, Is There Anyone Out There?”
Hope Kills, Write Anyway
So, I went and entered my first novel into a competition. And I know. I do. It won’t win, but then hope’s a trickster. It sneaks in like Casper, the friendly ghost, and leaves your dreams in shreds like Freddie Krueger. But in the end, what makes a story truly dark if not a littleContinue reading “Hope Kills, Write Anyway”
When Did Christmas Get So Complicated?
Well, I guess for Lauren, that was all down to the Red Marsh King … Trying to write, edit, create post content, art and animations for ads, whilst at the same time bringing my past life to an end, and still find time to buy presents, write Christmas cards, decorate the house and generally sortContinue reading “When Did Christmas Get So Complicated?”
Dead Lines
In the life before, the time past … … back when I did something I thought I was good at, something I knew how to do, I was pretty good with deadlines. Okay, I didn’t meet every one, but my time to completion and my responsiveness to requests were reasonable considering how busy I wasContinue reading “Dead Lines”
Frustrated Paperback Writer
Who knew the road to self publishing success was such a tortuous one. “Err … Pretty much everybody!” So … a not-so-unexpected apology to the fans out there impatiently waiting for the paperback release. I found myself caught in the clutches of ‘A Forever Edit’ – novice authors beware – and then I slammed upContinue reading “Frustrated Paperback Writer”
ianhedley - Indie Horror / Dark Fantasy Writer 