I ran into Cathryn Grant’s website when I was researching the whole issue of indie authors. I liked a lot of what she had to say on her site—for a start, the name Suburban Noir is great—and downloaded The Demise of the Soccer Moms. The arrival of Charlotte into the Read more…
Well of course, book publishing is not dead but, without doubt, it is terminally ill with no cure in sight. Taking off my author’s hat, I have been looking at publishing with my business eyes. The publishing industry exists solely to connect the work of an author with the eyes Read more…
On the heels of my previous post, CNN published a report Organized crime won the war on drugs and this was in the LA Times: U.S. can’t justify its drug war spending. It’s nice to know that the media are following me. 🙂 Just how harmful are illegal drugs? To answer Read more…
I lost my “indie virginity” to John Locke. Vegas Moon was the first book by an indie author that I ever read. I downloaded it from Amazon for the bargain price of 99 cents and I can tell you it is worth more. Vegas Moon is a Donovan Creed novel. Read more…
I’m not a patient person and I can’t stand hanging about waiting for something to happen. But it is what I have been doing for the last six months… waiting for a literary agent to reply to my query letter and request to see my manuscript. Well, no more. In Read more…
In 1971 Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, famously declared the “War on Drugs”. Well, here we are, forty years later, so I thought I’d better give you all a bit of an update on how that’s been working out. The good news… the War on Drugs Read more…