Writer’s Journal: Character Sketches 01

There are many different ways into a new story. This time I decided to draw the main characters and some of their items for a fantastic new tale. Hunter and Bain feature in a number of stories, but this one is the end of a linear time sequence, so I’m trying to keep the exposition down to a bare minimum which …

Writer’s Journal: Success and the Self-Publisher

Indie Publishing, or self-publishing, is slowly assuming a skin of respectability. It’s a thin skin, subject to the puncture of snobbery, self-doubt and, ultimately, the bruising engagement with readers, but self-publishing  is a democratising force for thousands of people who don’t have the contacts or the desire to submit to the withering forces of traditional publishing. However, anyone serious about …