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Blog postI’d been out of the game of listening to audiobooks since I started writing. Which is a shame, I’ve got extremely fond memories of audiobooks. In college, a friend and I used to hide in autumn in his room, listen to the BBC’s epic audiobook series of LOTR with all the lights turned off and eat pudding. It’s one of my most unexpected and most formative moments.
While I still thought I might have the chops to be an actor (I don’t!) and was working out that I could earn my living lightin -
Blog postA Hymn of Optimism?
I was thinking about this song the other day, and then it came up as first choice on Spotify, so I couldn’t resist playing the album while I was racking up the old word count. I’ve been thinking about a lot recently since I’ve been reading my mate’s book ‘How to Be Hopeful’ (Bernadette Russell, 2020, Elliot and Thompson). That the world needs more realistic optimism. That my pieces on here are often too long and too miserable. So here’s me with a few thoughts to -
Blog postThe shiny new Audiobook version of Dark is out, with Narration by the equally awesome Benny Fife. If you’re thinking of getting it and you manage it this week, it’ll help push us up the charts.
If you aren’t an Audible member already and are feeling kind, joining through these links will give me a bounty fee:
Audible US : Audible UK
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Blog postCharge up your kindles and enter a competition to win another $20 to spend on loads more books! 50 new authors to follow, lots of freebies, the whole shebang.
Site linky here: https://mybookcave.com/g/4dea7bd6/
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Blog post“IMG_1769” by MattVest is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Hi. I’ve not posted for a wee while as things have been more wipe than w.i.p recently. I am now well and truly started in the writing of Darkest though. I’m even starting to feel the momentum build and I know roughly where things are going. Yay!
So my excuse for being a slacker has been, we went on a writer’s conference, only to be interrupted half-way through day one, with the home-team calling us to tell u -
Blog postAlways a tricky one this. What to do about writing when you’re running on fumes and how to write about it so it doesn’t sound like you’re whining.
As opposed to winning. I only sing when I’m winning.
The process of bringing up a disabled child sadly doesn’t change when you get a diagnosis, especially one as vanishingly rare as ours (12 in the world, 1 in the UK). They just get bigger and heavier (though, somehow, still remaining cute!) and the workload with them. But as a carer, -
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Blog postCTBP1 – catchy, huh? That is the name for the thing that my daughter has that’s caused all of her challenges. Ataxia, muscle weakness, global delay, the whole shooting match. It’s so rare that there are 12 known cases, worldwide, as of today. It’s a single letter error in one of 3 billion DNA base pairs.
Those are numbers too big to get my head around, so a name kind of helps.
I think that we’d all get along less well with Hodgkin’s Disease, if it was still called ‘Painless Lymp -
Blog postSo here’s the thing. When you start writing a character in a wheelchair, you realise quite how privileged your position is. And you take the time to get your work checked and double-checked, knowing all the time that you’ve got a platform and the person whose story you’re telling hasn’t. That you’re taking up space on their platform.
Oracle, when she was cool… Then you get to the point when you’re marketing what you’ve done, and people start asking you, “Who is this person like? What -
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Blog postIf a picture tells a thousand words, I’d be writing comics? No, that seems pretty hard work too, if the hours I’ve seen my mate Steve* put into it. (Right, Steve*?) Let’s start with the picture.
There we go. A live-action, behind the scenes shot of exactly what it takes to get any writing done in this house. Me in foreground holding feeding tube, writing this with one hand, youngest daughter on iPad in middle squeaking at me if I get it wrong and my aweso
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