by Graeme Cumming | Jan 14, 2020 | Book Reviews, Fiction, Nostalgia, Publishing, Thinking Aloud |
In a recent blog post, I mentioned browsing in a second hand bookshop. I’ve picked up a few books there over the last couple of years – always picked something up while I was there. One of the last purchases was an impulse buy triggered by nostalgia. As a...
by Graeme Cumming | Jul 18, 2018 | Fiction, Writing |
Early in May, I finally completed the latest draft of Carrion, a novel that seems to be taking an age to get right. I first started it back in the mid-noughties, and have set it aside and gone back to it several times. The story feels right, and I feel it needs...
by Graeme Cumming | May 3, 2018 | Fiction, Publishing, Ravens Gathering |
When I was in the process of publishing Ravens Gathering in paperback, I wrote about Amazon’s pricing and discounting. If you’re not sure what discounting means, read the post. The bottom line for me, though, was that, to sell a paperback through Amazon, I have to...
by Graeme Cumming | Apr 9, 2018 | Blogging, Carrion, Fiction, Writing |
Last summer, the final phase of a plan I’d been working on for a few years came together. I stopped doing my day job. The day job was the business I’d worked on for 20 years and, very steadily (I’ve never been the kind of bloke who was going to blaze a trail), built...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 21, 2018 | Blogging, Book Reviews, Fiction, Nostalgia |
Author Sandra Danby has a blog series she refers to as Porridge and Cream, in which she asks other authors to share books that fit her definition: “…the book you turn to when you need a familiar read, when you are tired, ill, or out-of-sorts, where you...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 15, 2018 | Book Reviews, Fiction, Writing |
My reading has been very patchy over the last year or so – not good when you’re supposed to be writing as well. However, I have started to pick the pace up in recent months. A lot of the books I’m buying at the moment are based on the recommendations...
