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So I’ve done the best I can with Book 2 and it’s currently with my editor (Sophie Playle.) Should be back with comments by the 26th of July. I’m really hoping she likes it. I was getting bored not having any work to do but then I read the blog which told me what I…

I like this idea that someone asks me questions and I answer them. I am full of opinions but when faced with a blank page I never know what to say. So I’ve copied my smashwords interview for you, amended it slightly and I am very grateful to smashwords for the chance to air my…

February 2017 Well I’m hoping this is the lowest point of being a self-published author. It turns out unless you’re well known that it’s harder to sell your thoughts, your imagination than it is to sell old rope. That is not to say that I am not eternally grateful to the fourteen people who have…

Well surprise, surprise the draft blog I was bemoaning still exists on my old phone. I have retrieved it and am wondering whether I should have. It is typical ‘I can’t sleep because I’ve had four coffees and a large late meal dribble.’ But then what is a blog? Perhaps that is exactly what they…

I once said that I wanted to be the Jane Austen for gay love stories in the 21st Century. I was trying to explain my style of writing. I wanted the romance but happy to leave the sex to the imagination – after all there are many other writers covering that field perfectly adequately. I…

I had a little break from typing (see previous blogs for full story) and read Book 5. Book 4 & 5 I printed out small and stuck them into little notebooks. It’s a fun way of imagining your books are published. Book 5 (or shall I call it by its provisional title of Timon of…

In my last blog I spoke very casually about having lost a 330,000 word novel. I had a paper copy. Slightly inconveniently it was printed out on 8 pages to an A4 page to save paper and ink. Now I am typing it up I realise it is my eyesight that needs saving. I was…

I have been editing Herai for so long that the other day when I decided it was time to look at Book 2, I had a scare. It wasn’t on my laptop. My writing netbook had died in the last year. Neither was it sitting on any of the 3 memory sticks I could have…

I wanted to write a story where the main character could be seen as either male or female depending on the wishes or viewpoint of the reader. It seemed an interesting experiment to me to see the reactions of the readers. I’m not sure it worked as the first two people who read the book…

Some views of the sea. A picture everyday since the 18th March 2016. See my twitter account. Use the hashtag.#aaronlooksatsea365