Archive for the ‘Reading’ Category
Record UK book sales in 2012
Despite all the financial doom and gloom over the last few years, British publishers seem to be bucking the trend as they have reported record sales in 2012. According to this article on the BBC Website, total spending on books (both printed and digital form) rose to £3.3bn in 2012. That represents a 4% increase […]
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Tags: BBC, E-book, Kindle, Paperback, photography, Publishing, Reading, Writing
Lazy weekends
Today is the twelfth day of the A to Z Challenge and the end of the second week. Two weeks already! Feels like a lifetime. I’m not joking. As I’m about to embark on a lazy weekend, I thought it would neatly fit my L post. We don’t have any children so our weekends are […]
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Tags: A to Z Challenge, Cumbria, Lake District, photography, Reading, Writing
I read this article on the BBC News website about Amazon buying Goodreads. I’m sure you know all about Goodreads, most blogs I visit tend to have one of their widgets somewhere to show what books you’ve all read over the last few months. If you’re not familiar with the site then it is all […]
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Goodreads, Otis Chandler, Reading, Writing
The Top 100 books in the UK?
I read an article yesterday about the Top 100 most popular books in the UK. I like lists. I enjoy seeing how I conform, or more often than not, don’t conform to everyone else. So how was this list compiled? Well, according to the Metro: Researchers trawled literary forums and websites to compile a list […]
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Tags: Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, J. R. R. Tolkien, JK Rowling, Reading, Writing
My first novel, a psychological thriller called FRY, launched on Amazon this week. It took me over ten years to write it. Not because it’s particularly long (it’s just under 80,000 words) or because it involved a lot of research. No, I just didn’t plan. I had the idea for the name and one key […]
Filed under: E-Book, Guest Post, Reading, Writing | 16 Comments
Tags: Amazon, eBooks, FRY, Kindle, London School of Journalism, May Queen Killers, novel, novel writing, Pantser, Planner, psychological thriller
I’ve won something!
I repeat, I’ve won something! Let me put this into context. I hardly ever win anything. Maybe the odd £10 win on the lottery, but when it comes to an actual physical prize, the general rule seems to be that I won’t win. One of the blogging writers I follow is Emma Woodcock and she […]
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Tags: Atari, California, Darklands, Emma Woodcock, Papa Smurf, prizes, Reading, smurfs, Writing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 505 KB Print Length: 289 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0007508646 Publisher: Harper (1 Jan 2013) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Official Site: Dean Koontz Overview (courtesy of Goodreads) THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner […]
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Tags: Dean Koontz, E-book, Forever Odd, Goodreads, Odd Interlude, Odd Thomas, Reading, Writing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 411 KB Print Length: 233 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612184456 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (27 Nov 2012) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Overview Andrew Morrison sacrificed everything—his childhood, his education, and the girl of his dreams—to look after his alcoholic mother. But enough is enough, and now he’s determined to get out and […]
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Tags: Andrew Morrison, Ania Ahlborn, Basic Instinct, Blue Velvet, Kindle, Reading, Writing
Writing HIGH sort of just happened. I knew I always wanted to become a writer, and I knew I always wanted to write a novel, but I didn’t know when it would actually happen. The first thing I ever wrote I was fourteen years old. A boy I “liked” passed in front of me and […]
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Tags: blog tour, Graphic designer, Manhattan, Montreal, Reading, San Francisco, Writing
When I started writing I Can See You there was only the one story planned. At the time, no sequel immediately sprang to mind. To be honest, I when I started writing this book back in 2005, I would’ve been delighted just to know that I would actually finish the first draft. The same applied to […]
Filed under: Novel In Progress, Reading, Writing | 37 Comments
Tags: Books, Fiction, Reading, Sequel, the Hunger Games, trilogies, Writing
