Martyn's blog

The Obedience Of Fools...and the guidance of wise men, taken from a quote attributed to the fighter ace Douglas Bader, and this years e...

Do you think NaNoWriMo is craziness squared, 50,000 words in 30 days, OK, shift the perspective and walk another path. Imagine this; you...

And so it should be, with that in mind The Grange novels, Iceline and Control Escape have been listed in the Summer"Winter promotion ...

Smuggling, skulduggery and scuba diving and he was in the right place at the wrong time. A late evening encounter outside the compressor she...

No need for caution,  What You Ask For  2012 Nanowrimo winner published via Smashwords is now a completed draft; straight from the typeface ...

The big question when you put anything out into the open market, and probably the biggest conundrum facing any author, self-published or oth...

Tonight is the night and the offer is still open, looking for a book for tonight. Iceline for free with the code NL36S here and Control: Es...

Science fiction adventure. When is a crime scene not a crime scene? When it hasn't happened yet, or has it or will it? Time travel and ...

One week to go, seven nights from tonight World Book Night will be with us!  Have you anything lined up yet? To celebrate;  Iceline...

Blogging can feel like shouting in the dark, hurling your words into the void and wondering if anyone is listening, or reading. The page vi...

The old style Barbers with the traditional red and white pole outside the door, dark wood panelling stained with age and Brylcreem, and the...

The last few hours of Read An Ebook Week 2013, and the search through the catalogue at Smashwords brings one or two things to notice, Ic...

Area 51 - that got your attention; no, not the place that officially unofficially exists or doesn't somewhere in Nevada, although Googl...

Spot of early morning reading, checking the emails and this blog and the Smashwords blog trumpeted the news, Apple iBookstore in the UK and...

Word count, download count, sales figures, for a business that is about words and sentences there are a lot of numbers involved, all useful ...

Is it you, or the person next to you. Are you going to be the only pumpkin in town midnight on the 9th, after all week thinking about it. Th...

Go on, you know you want to. The week has started at Smashwords, so the code is live and you won't feel like a total pumpkin for jumping...

The annual  Read An Ebook Week is here, this is the first time I've been in a position to take part and it looks like fun, and if someth...

Read An eBook Week starts tomorrow at Smashwords.com , the fifth annual celebration of books on the site, and Iceline and Control: Escape ...

Recent posts from the Office of Letters and Light - the people behind Nanowrimo -  Self-Publishing vs Publishing: How To Choose Your Path b...