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App Review: Goodreads Android App 2.0.2

Posted on April 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

Anyway, today I got an email asking me to download the new and improved Goodreads App.

‘Yes, I will.’ I thought. ‘And then I’ll tell all my faithful readers exactly what I thought of it, mwahaha!’

Super Snappy Speed Reviews – TV Edition (Vol. 2)

Posted on April 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

I’ve picked 5 TV shows entirely at random from my DVD rack/Now TV/Lovefilm/etc. accounts and reviewed them all in no more than four or five sentences.

Author Interview: Sharleen Nelson (part 2 of 2)

Posted on April 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sharleen, whose debut novel The Time Tourists is available to buy on Amazon and other retail outlets. This is the second half of that interview.

Author Interview: Sharleen Nelson (part 1 of 2)

Posted on April 8, 2021 Leave a Comment

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sharleen Nelson, whose debut novel The Time Tourists is available to buy on Amazon and other retail outlets. What follows is part one of that interview. Be sure to check back next week for part two!

Super Snappy Speed Reviews – Writing Apps for Android

Posted on April 3, 2021 Leave a Comment

As ever, the apps I have reviewed here are not necessarily apps that I particularly liked or disliked, but are simply a random selection of writers’ apps that I have tried out at one point or another. As usual, these reviews only reflect my own personal opinions and impressions, squished, squashed and squeezed into a few short sentences.

6 Useful Posts on Fiction and Writing

Posted on March 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

Here we have it: another exciting instalment of Useful Posts on Fiction and Writing, where I share some of the most useful, insightful or just downright enjoyable posts on fiction writing that I’ve found on WordPress in the last week.

Taking a Holiday From My Novel

Posted on March 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

I’m just getting a little fed up of the sight of my novel. And so the solution is to set aside a short time to work on other short writing projects…

Super Snappy Speed Reviews – Books (Vol. 3)

Posted on March 24, 2021 Leave a Comment

As always, these reviews only reflect my own personal opinions and impressions, sliced, diced and minced into a few short sentences.

50 Quotes About Writing

Posted on March 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

Well, we’ve already had fifty quotes about fiction in general so today it’s time for another fifty quotes, this time providing advice, encouragement and general reflections on the process of writing.