Due to one thing and another - mainly the fact that I'm going to be made redundant - I'm in need of monetising my fiction. To that end, I've moved The Long Sleep from Feedbooks to Amazon. It is available there in DRM free Kindle format.

If you click on these links, you'll be able to get them for 99c/77p.

In case anyone is interested, you can view my comic book and my book collections (all of the comics and all of the books that aren't stored away in the loft at the moment) here.

Just heard back from the publishers. They have rejected the Down Among the Yla.

Bugger. Not to mention bollocks.

I have submitted it to a different publisher. Back to crossing various digits.

I've just broken 68,000 words and 200 pages at the same time. Yay me!

That was more of a tweet than a post, wasn't? Oh well, I need some dinner, so I'm not going to go on.

I know, I know, it's been months since last I wrote anything. Well, it's actually been months since I last wrote ANYTHING. But, today I managed to do something. And I am continuing that success with a blog post.

( Which I shall put behind a cut )

I have committed a cardinal sin. I have blogged elsewhere. For some reason, considering how good I am at doing it here, I agreed to write stuff over at the Cover Stories blog. I have just completed my first entry there. So, please to enjoy.

I'll do the news first, then I'll do the wordcount. That way, I'll get the interesting stuff out of the way first.

Yesterday, I discovered why Down Among The Yla got rejected. It wasn't because it wasn't any good. No, it was, in fact, because I am an idiot. When I write, I keep two current versions of the text - one on my C drive and one on my Dropbox. However, when I re-edited Down Among... following the suggestions from the editor, I must have saved it halfway through the process. Then, when I had finished it - making the biggest changes to the text - I only saved it to Dropbox. Then I sent the half edited version to the editor. I imagine he must have been somewhat annoyed to see that I had only made some of the changes that he suggested.

However, when I realised this yesterday, I emailed him again, explaining the error and asking if he would be willing to take another look. And, obviously being an incredible person (especially if he should chance to read this...), he said yes! So, I have managed to snatch my chance back from the jaws of rejection! Of course, I'll probably still end up being rejected, but at least this time it will be because there are still problems with the book rather than through my own ineptitude.

I've just been checking the stats for The Long Sleep on Feedbooks and, in the last week, it has been downloaded a total of 213 times! Which is really rather marvellous.

And now, the wordcount.

It was a bit of a short week this week, with one thing and another, I didn't quite manage to hit my target. And, to be frank, if I hadn't managed to get 1600 words written today, it'd have been well short. As it is, I managed 2300 words this week. Taking my total to:



So basically, two-thirds of the way! Hooray! It's going really well, as well and seems to be very much on target for where I want to be.

A wonderful little Pulp/Frank Miller mashup: Daredevil in Common People.

I've just published The Long Sleep as an e-book to Feedbooks. It's available there in both Epub and Kindle formats and looks pretty snazzy - especially in the Kindle format. Certainly better than the versions I created myself. They are available from here.

I'm going to re-upload them both to The Golden Journey to Samarcand as well, so they'll look as good.

I haven't done a word count for a while. I have been extremely remiss. But, to tell the truth, I haven't been as good and assiduous as I should have been. However, I've done pretty well this week. I've managed about 2,500 words of Ghostkin and a third 1000 word story for Cover Stories, so I'm happy with that. Hopefully, I can keep it up. I've got one more Cover Stories story write, although I don't yet have any firm idea about what I'm going to do for it. I'll get there, though. The last one was a sudden bolt from the blue - it came from watching a TED talk by Professor Brian Cox about why we need explorers in which he talked a little about Europa. Something just clicked and the story sprang into my head. Not entirely fully formed, but certainly getting there. (You should go and watch that talk, by the way, it's really rather good.)

So, yeah, I'm hoping for something similar to happen. I do have a couple of ideas, but I don't know if they'll work and, as they're really not much more than a single line and I haven't been able to work anything more from them other than that one line, maybe they aren't really strong enough.

Anyway, have a word count.

Ghostkin


Hell, have another one...

Bonnie