Thank you for that song, Sailor. It's a catchy little number.It's ear worm material. I'm not even sorry. 🙂 https://youtu.be/qumA791iaJc Enjoy.There is precious little writing happening this week. I do need to knuckle down and get the 'first draft' of the new book completed. Slow going when I'm not actually opening the file ... seems … Continue reading Girls, Girls, Girls
Mystery
April 10th 2020
KILLERBYTE is 11 today! Unbelievable! I cannot grasp being the author of a book that has turned 11.11 years ago today I celebrated the launch of Killerbyte with family and friends. It was a magnificent night. I think we had South African wine because my publisher then was a South African company called Rebel ePublishers. … Continue reading April 10th 2020
Reading helps …
For the next month we have significantly dropped the prices of the first 6 Byte novels on #Amazon, to clarify it's the ones listed below and kindle copies: 1. Killerbyte:A death threat in a chatroom leads to the systematic dismemberment of Special Agent Conway’s virtual and real life friends. (2009) mybook.to/killerbyte 2. Terrorbyte:Collaborating with the FSB, Delta … Continue reading Reading helps …
Rainy days and Mondays …
How was your weekend? Mine was busy. Writing Group at the bookshop on Saturday which was fun, lively, full of discussion regarding marketing and other horrors. The rest of the weekend involved tweaking scenes, fiddling with the opening chapter of the new book (because I'd quite like that to be at the end of Vaporbyte), … Continue reading Rainy days and Mondays …
Eye Of The Tiger
Cannot listen to this song without seeing Jensen Ackles (the Yellow Fever episode) - not a bad thing at all. Anyway, that was the song that greeted me when I turned the radio on this morning. Nice song to start a Monday. :)I did absolutely no writing this weekend - hardly even wrote a text … Continue reading Eye Of The Tiger
Friends in low places
Thank you Garth Brooks for the fantastic song/blog title. Some of you know that I've been struggling for quite sometime with this new book. It's opening 10k has been re-written four times now because I couldn't find my voice and didn't feel comfortable with the POV. Turns out, it's hard leaving my comfort zone and … Continue reading Friends in low places
Made up holiday, anyone?
To be honest we don't really bother about Valentine's - the whole long distance thing makes it hard enough without adding commercial 'holidays' to the mix. (Bad enough that we weren't together for our birthdays and Christmas last year!) But, we're pretty good at appreciating each other every day. :)I know a lot of you … Continue reading Made up holiday, anyone?
I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing …
Thanks for that gem Aerosmith. I do love it. I pressed play, had no idea what I was listening to last - so, the Armageddon sound track was a nice surprise. 🙂 This song in particular has been a favorite for years. I've been hard at it over the last few days, making a lot … Continue reading I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing …
Merry Whatever and Whatnot
The Smashwords storewide end of year sale started today. So, Merry whatever and whatnot from us ... it's the perfect opportunity to fill those new eReaders with some amaze-balls books and best of all, they're heavily reduced.Want links?One moment caller ... Let's start with the three Byte Boxed Sets: Three books PLUS a (rather long) … Continue reading Merry Whatever and Whatnot
As if by magic …
It's Christmas Eve! How on earth it happened so fast, I do not know, but here we are!I've got around 40k to write in the next week, so, that'll keep me pretty busy - will I make it? Probably not but I'll try. I really want to be able to move on to new challenges … Continue reading As if by magic …
