My Disaster Cover #bookcovers

After writing the last post, Sandrine Lopez, (@sanpezzers) tweeted and asked if I’d ever had an experience of having to live with a bad cover and  would I do a post on it. I have to confess, this cover is so bad, it has tainted how I feel about the story as a whole. The […]

Cover-rage: Why Writers Need to Care about Covers #bookcovers

I had a horrible nightmare last week. I dreamed that my novel was released with a cover featuring a blonde bimbo with fake tits sandwiched between two rambo clones. I could see it so clearly, in all its revoltingly literal, misleading, exploitative glory. The scrolled, wedding-invite font was the last straw. I broke through into […]

Other Voices, Other Genres: Marc Nash

In my continuing adventure to thrust suspect and dangerous people upon you, I’d like to introduce you to Marc Nash. He has a very challenging view of how to be a writer. I’d like to be more like him. When did you start writing? Apocrypha has it that I scrawled the word ‘help’ in amniotic […]

Proof / Test Readers Wanted

If you have been reading me a while and have been with me through the evolution of my novel, Beautiful Losers, you may or may not be pleased to know that I have finished it and it is being submitted for publication. However, I would like to ask if  some of you patient readers would […]

Love Me?

Some days, I think I lost you in the sludge of time I blame the years of erosion that wore the edge off desire. Others, I never found the right combination of clever words to unlock your cast-iron heart; I blame the limits of language. We find curious places to put our failures: in the […]

Other Voices, Other Genres: Heikki Hietala

Continuing on with my drive to introduce you to new voices writing in genres other than erotic fiction, it’s my pleasure to introduce Heikki Hietala, a Finnish writer of literary and historical fiction. When did you start writing? I’ve always liked writing, but it was in April 1996 that I got the urge to write […]