Martyn's blog

A lot of the chatter lately has been about the pitfalls facing independent self publishers, but what about the positive aspects of the chal...

Every good story has a villain, the fouler and blacker the better, for a dramatic narrative, and the easier it is to identify the black hat...

How much of what we know, or think we know about writing is down to a strange communal memory. Somewhere way back in the mists of time, or j...

New material for the Obedience of Fools , this year's NaNoWriMo entry, updated and free to download. Very much a work in progress an...

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

The Angst of Acceptance , a recent post by Chris James at Indies unlimited taps into the discussion about who is worthy to sit at the litera...

Just posted the latest version of the Nanowrimo 2012 winner,  What You Ask For , still free and still available at Smashwords.com. The s...

 Iceline - $2.99 - BookBarista . listed on the site as Fiction, thriller, ebooks on line with links to major retailers; Apple iTunes, Kobo, ...

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...

Spotted this poster on the www.ebookweek.com site, the whole thing is news to me but it's sort of the parent site for all this fun...

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...

OK, I'm a writer with books out, and I shall indulge in shameless plugging, slight adjustments to the blog now contain links to my books...