Archive for July, 2009

Blip.fm

Posted: 30th July 2009 by admin in blip.fm

This is a great site. Check it out. http://blip.fm/home

"Back, back I say!"

Posted: 27th July 2009 by admin in Uncategorized

My head feels as if it will explode and shower small jelly-like pieces of brain matter around the room. Trying to write a completely new project when you have just finished the first draft of book three in your ‘established’ series is really difficult. My brain wants to slip into the nice comfy voice that [...]

It lives!

Posted: 16th July 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Dark Moon, New book, Steve Feasey

There was a satisfying thunk on the hallway floor followed by the telltale chatter of the letters being pushed through the letterbox. I wandered out of the lounge, adopting that flat-footed gait that somehow seems to disappear as the day wears on, and looked down at the various envelopes, pamphlets and circulars that had been [...]

I’m at a crossroads: I have delivered three Changeling books to my publishers, and so I have fulfilled my contract. Now I have to think about what comes next, and it’s not as straightforward as I thought. I have every expectation that Macmillan will be offering me a new contract (that’s not a result of [...]

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Hammer Time

Posted: 10th July 2009 by admin in Uncategorized

Ha! This is so good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxCnZ4Dp3c&feature=player_embedded

Macmillan have put together a neat little movie for their forthcoming sales conference. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJuxwSMAH2o&feature=channel_page Don’t blink though, or you’ll miss it.

Read and be damned!

Posted: 3rd July 2009 by admin in Uncategorized

I’m reading again. I’d stopped for a week or so because of something that I read on some damn forum that suggested it was a really REALLY bad idea to read anything while you are trying to write, and that doing so can change your voice/style. That may be true, but what is worse is [...]