ON WRITING A MOD EPIC - The Jimmy Mack Saga
On New Year’s Eve, 1969, I was twenty. At the time I didn’t appreciate how lucky I had been to have lived through the best decade of my...
Amazon - The Retail Highwaymen
To say I'm disgusted with AMAZON barely covers what I really feel. I am an Indie Author and publish my books on a Print On Demand (POD)...
Why I resent Celeb authors, publishers & literary agents...
To paraphrase Janis Joplin's Mercedes song lyrics... Oh Lord, won't you get me a Publishing Deal? Our celebrity authors all have...
All about Alice – The author’s apology.
Let me tell you a secret. I didn’t choose to write Alice. The novel chose me. If you don’t find that strange, you will understand what...
Pay to have my book reviewed? Seriously?
Like all indie authors, I have to do my own advertising/marketing. As someone who started to write after retiring, I have had to work on...
Part 3. The Myth of the Parka
I do still own a fishtail Parka. It’s the M65 version, the one that has a detachable hood with the crappy-wired fur hood trim, not an M51...