This week I’ve been putting the finishing touches to the basic formatting on Book One. My front and back matter is now drafted. And I’ve had a skim through to check it looks reasonable on the screen. It was a good thing I did because I spotted that I had …
This post has been compiled with help from the BristolCon 2016 panel ‘The Regiment of Monsters’. Are fantasy novels diverse enough? Many fantasy novels, especially the epic fantasy of the last twenty or thirty years or so, involves a white male human lead character. In fact, the entire cast …
This week I’ve been mostly concentrating on formatting my novel. To be honest, it’s not been as horrendous as I thought it would be. But then I suppose I’ve been using Microsoft Word for years, even if I haven’t specifically been formatting books. Anyway, I’ve had a helping hand in …
“Magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing, and a progression.” – Yennefer of Vengerberg This post has been developed from the panel “Not just Hocus Pocus” at BristolCon 2016. Why are we drawn to magic? Fantasy books are hugely popular at the moment, but what …
I’m pleased to announce that I now have a completed book one manuscript, yay! So, now I’m moving towards self-publication. It’s going to be a bit of a learning process this first time around. As part of that process, I’ve made some updates to my blog, so that it now …
I picked up this book on my recent holiday to Tintagel, in Cornwall. Given the King Arthur connection, there were a lot of history books available in most of the tourist shops, and this one caught my eye. I’m not really one for reading much in the way of non-fiction. …
For the final post in my holiday series, I’m going to show you King Arthur’s Hall. It was built in the 1930s, in the village of Tintagel, and originally served as the headquarters for a social organisation known as the Order of the Fellowship of the Knights of the Round …