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Fail to win, win to fail No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful No, I'm not depressed (I'm pretty much never depressed), nor am I quoting They Might Be Giants lyrics just because I saw them live earlier this month (an excellent gig). It's just that I've been thinking about failure, as I am often wont to do,...

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Don't read this post Just keep walking. Don't stop here. This is bat country. ...come on, you know I never write anything worthwhile on a Thursday night. Instead, go read one (or more) of these awesome things. Author Peter Ball is liveblogging the progress of his new urban fantasy novella Claw (sequel to Horn and Blood) and it's a fascinating look at the writing process. Peter...

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Fight fight fight In Sean Howe's fascinating book Marvel Comics: the Untold Story there's a bit about Chris Claremont, whose seminal run on Uncanny X-Men defined pretty much the entire superhero genre in the 1980s. Apparently Claremont was completely disinterested in the action elements of the comic, usually letting artist John Byrne take charge of those with a note like 'fill three pages...

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Feeling a bit comical I've got comics on my mind this week. Which, okay, is pretty normal, but I have specific reasons for it this time. -- We saw Iron Man 3 on Sunday, and I thought it was terrific. It's been ages since we've seen a new Shane Black film - not since the excellent Kiss Kiss Bang Bang  - and it's a joy to see him working as writer and director again. Black brings a real...

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Less chilling, more illing Did I say I'd come back on Thursday to talk more about the endlessly fascinating topic of how to maintain writerly momentum and focus in the face of Old Man Winter and his relentless legion of slightly chilly draughts under the office door? Well. Obviously that didn't go so well. In my defence, though, I was devoting all my spare time over the last week to making my...

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Recovered

Category : ebooks

As I mentioned a few days ago, the cover I used for Godheads and Other Stories was only a placeholder, which I mocked up to tide me over for the EWF while the real cover was finalised.

Well, I’m happy to say that it’s in and it looks fantastic:

This is from the crew at Design Junkies, who also made the awesome Hotel Flamingo cover. I asked them to do another cover based around a photo of a building, to connect the two books, and to use a church that was… I think my brief was ‘run-down and spooky-looking’. Which this definitely is.

The new cover is up on Smashwords and the Kindle Store, and in the Books tab, and everywhere else it was supposed to be. Hang on, no, I haven’t put it on Facebook yet – will do that later. One of the downsides of self-publishing I never considered was the need to constantly update things – adding URLs to pages, uploading book files with new links and info, all that business. Kind of a pain, but I don’t have enough money to pay someone else to do it for me, so such is life.

Interesting to think that a lot of my stories connect to buildings and place. It’s not deliberate, and it’s not constant, but it happens often enough that if nothing else it makes for good covers. Makes me think that my next project should be to reattempt the aborted novella Higherground, which was all about tall buildings and cities after midnight and weird things happening above your line of sight. Hmm. Worth considering.

That said, right now I need a holiday from writing. Just for a little while.

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