Category Archives: annoying things

New covers, and recommend me romantic SF

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Here are the old and new front covers for The Maker’s Mask and The Hawkwood War and the new back covers for both. Click to embiggen or view as a gallery. I wanted the new blue covers to give a … Continue reading →

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Dear Amazon

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

This is an open letter to Amazon, with regard to their UK Kindle Store. Dear Amazon: I love the Kindle. I love the convenience of being able to buy books and have them delivered immediately. I love being able to … Continue reading →

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Plot early, plot often

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

In the ‘good news’ category: the steampunk thing, now tentatively entitled ‘Firebrand’, is chugging closer to being finished in first draft. So then it’ll be time for the second draft and then to send it off to the various people … Continue reading →

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Random assortment

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

I like websites that log you in and keep you logged in. I get mildly annoyed about websites that expect you to log in every day, but I realise they’re doing it for security reasons. But websites that keep you … Continue reading →

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Good Thing, Bad Thing

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Bad thing: realising that the plot took a wrong turn about sixty pages back. Good thing: at least now I can fix it, rather than staring at the book thinking ‘This is crap! I can’t get on with this book … Continue reading →

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Good news, bad news

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

Good news: barring any more unexpected hiccups in the process, the books are now on their way to the Kindle Store! I turned out to have misread the form on the Amazon site – it looked as if you had … Continue reading →

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Ecostressed

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

I’m sorry about the unpleasant little ‘Ecopressed’ ads that are appearing in single post view between the post and the comments: these aren’t my doing, they’re WordPress inserting content, and I’m trying to decide whether to pay for the ‘no … Continue reading →

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Stepdaughter Of I Get Searches

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

WordPress helpfully tells me what people have searched on to find my site, and sometimes I can’t help but respond: find books to sell on amazon That sounds like one of those careers you see advertisements for in the back … Continue reading →

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Baby, it’s cold outside

Posted on November 26, 2010 by

Today I bought various books from Lulu for Christmas presents to take advantage of the 25% offer they’ve got going… and then forgot to put the code in at the checkout. I’d previously tried to cancel Lulu orders due to … Continue reading →

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Amazon, here we come!

Posted on October 9, 2010 by

This weekend’s adventure is… setting myself up as an Amazon affiliate. Dealing with Amazon itself wasn’t too bad: there was a minor blip when I opened the application form and discovered that for some insane reason Amazon.com thought my primary … Continue reading →

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