My blog was down for a week or so due to an admin error. Fortunately it’s back up. The post from yesterday was actually from two weeks ago …
Read MoreSpent yesterday researching a short story idea for a competition to support Bloody Scotland, a tartan noir crime writing festival.
While the limit is 3,000 words I think I’ve come up …
So that’s me finished draft 5g of “Ghost in the Machine”, the penultimate one. I’m just printing it out now to give to my girlfriend to proofread. I …
Read MoreSo …
Not quite ready for 14-Feb then…
I’m at 75% just now of the latest draft which has been a fine tooth comb edit.
I’m not going to rush things and set …
I’m going to publish “Ghost in the Machine” by the 14th February 2012, but here is an advance of the book cover:
It was created in GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) from a …
Three years ago to the day, I started writing Ghost in the Machine.
Funnily enough, I’d picked up the hardback of Iain M Banks’ The Algebraist, only to discover on the …
Bloody hell, I can’t make my mind up.
I spent a month turning Ghost in the Machine into a novella (at a plot level) and kind of burnt out with it …
So I’m a massive Smiths fan.
Just recently got “The Sound of the Smiths” double CD edition. It is incredible. The problem with the Smiths has generally been sound quality, from …
So in this brave new world of Cullen novellas, I am on fire.
I redrafted Devil in the Detail last week – even better than I remembered. Got another draft to …
Just kind of realised that I’m getting nowhere with “Ghost in the Machine”. I like the idea, don’t get me wrong, it’s just how I’ve executed it.
It’s a 90k …
