OCTOBER 2024 Almost as soon as I’d finished getting An Ultrakey for Dione ready for the big bookstore in the cloud, I was almost literally struck down by a bout of sciatica. I think it might have been my back complaining about the end of summer and the start of the cooler, even wetter weather. …
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SEPTEMBER 2024 Self-publishing is like a dark tunnel that has suddenly filled with people poking flashlights in my face and telling me to follow them to the light at the end of the tunnel, before taking me back the way I came and then handing me the bill for their services. What to do? Well, …
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AUGUST 2024 It’s August, and that means even pink-skinned dudes like me have to slap on some Factor 50 and head for the beach. What will I be reading as I sit on the towel under my trusty umbrella? That’s a good question, but it’s not what we’re here to talk about. This was a …
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JULY 2024 I know this is just repeating last month’s news, but the official version of the fourth novella associated with the Backdoor Angels series – and providing some extra fun, I hope – is now available from Amazon. As usual, I’m keeping the price at a modest 99 cents/pence (can’t do the same with …
The Karima Shuffle now being played in the Kindle Store Read More »
JUNE 2024 I don’t know if you noticed the newsletter sneakily sliding from the end of one month to the start of the next. It meant that April’s went out in May, and now I’m regarding this as the missive for June, so you might argue that we ‘lost’ one somewhere. But after last month’s …
APRIL/MAY 2024 So, a funny thing happened on Amazon. I uploaded my revised text for Anything But Accidental, the first novel in the Backdoor Angels series, with the additional insights involving important people within the Superior Planets Company, but KDP didn’t see any reason to regard it as a new edition, and I only spotted …
March 2024 Since I’m currently sailing joyously through the final revision of a second edition of Anything But Accidental (the subject line is a quote from that novel, by the way), this month I was going to say very little and simply include this link to an article about “enshittification”. Revisiting the link, I see …
FEBRUARY 2024 One of the more trivial consequences of the pandemic and the various lockdowns and ongoingrestrictions was that it thwarted my plan to join the local astronomy society, Astrocantabria, in early2020. I had been poised to fill in the form and was already looking forward to my first monthly talk when everything was shut …
JANUARY 2024 Sometimes it’s hard not to see life as a series of deadlines looming up ahead like a many-headed hydra. Every time you come face to face with one you discover that the beast STILL isn’t quite as deadly as you had feared, and you chop off its head just as its big, goggling …
DECEMBER 2023 “What a ride. This story manages to answer a lot of questions and bring the current story to a good stopping point as well as whetting your appetite for what’s to come.” “I think this has to be one of the best books I’ve read in a good while, it kept me engaged …
