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On Saturday I finally got my hands on a physical ARC of The Alchemist of Souls, which was pretty thrilling, let me tell you! Of course I’ve seen the cover art before, in gorgeous high-resolution, and read the text a gazillion times – but it was still an extraordinary feeling to flip through the physical  Continue Reading »

Whilst having a publishing contract is all kinds of awesome, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of seeing your book in physical form at last. Sad to say I haven’t laid hands on a copy quite yet, but at least I now know they exist! Yes, a batch of ARCs (advance reading copies) arrived in  Continue Reading »

Last time I covered setting up your author website, and suggested using one of the popular blogging platforms as an easy way to run it. If you’ve done this, you now have full blogging capabilities at your fingertips – but what do you blog about? Choosing a topic Your knee-jerk reaction might be “Well I’m  Continue Reading »

The recent debate on women’s visibility in SFF has thrown up a few issues facing women in the genre, but has mostly focused on male blindspots and the predominance of male reviewers, awards judges, survey participants and so on. On the other hand August started well, with proof that the trend is not universal: out  Continue Reading »

There’s a lot of debate about ebooks pricing and the future of publishing at the moment. At one extreme you have Big Publishers charging hardback prices for new ebooks; at the other, self-publishers setting prices as low as 99 cents for a full novel. The latter might seem great for readers, and a really successful  Continue Reading »

I don’t usually blog about writing because, yanno, I’m trying to avoid creating Yet Another Writer’s Blog. But a number of things have happened this week that got me thinking, and I felt I had to share them. On the personal side, I’m struggling with the plot of The Merchant of Dreams, Book Two in  Continue Reading »

AltFiction is now in its fifth year and is rapidly establishing itself as one of the best conventions for anyone interested in fantasy, science fiction, horror, comics…basically everything that falls under the “speculative fiction” umbrella. 2011 was its first year as a two-day event, and my first attendance, and I wasn’t disappointed. The venue was  Continue Reading »