The other day I was watching an episode of Celebrity The Chase (I know, I know, but I’m a student of all levels of culture, dontchya know) when something unexpectedly annoyed me. One of the contestants was Fern Britton. Lovely Fern. Presenter of Ready, Steady, Cook, and This Morning. And, as it transpires, novelist. When quizzed by the hostContinue reading “YAWB: Invitations To The In-Crowd”
Author Archives: Dan Jones
YAWB: Doubt
My last-but-one post was on disappointment, which is just one of the prongs of the industrial-sized pitchfork wielded by the angry mob consisting of publishers, reviewers, editors, agents, and our own muses. Disappointment doesn’t have to be all bad, though. At least you can counter it with a good attitude and a bit of professionalism. DoubtContinue reading “YAWB: Doubt”
Book Review: The Goddess Project by Bryan Wigmore
The thought occurred to me the other day that Snowbooks acquired two new authors last year. Two, out of what was most likely hundreds or perhaps even thousands of submissions. And it tickles me unendingly that those two authors are me, and Bryan Wigmore. To give that a bit of context, Bryan and I areContinue reading “Book Review: The Goddess Project by Bryan Wigmore”
YAWB: Disappointment
The other day I was directed to Emma Green’s blog about the constant stream of disappointments that one experiences as an author. Writerly angst is always in vogue among us creative types, isn’t it? Green’s experience sounds quite painful, but also, dare I say it, rather naïve. That might make me seem rather heartless, and I do sympathiseContinue reading “YAWB: Disappointment”
YAWB: Journeys
Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination… Last year I submitted a fantasy story entitled A Warm Heart to my buddies at Woodbridge Press with hope for inclusion in their first fantasy anthology. To my delight, and against some very high quality submissions, my story was accepted for inclusion, and I’m really excited to be aContinue reading “YAWB: Journeys”
YAWB: Canniballs!
To accompany some of my releases this year I’m releasing a second edition of “Eat Yourself, Clarice!” It seems to me that in the time of post-truths, fake news and the ironic juxtaposition of pushbacks against Government surveillance initiatives and the individual’s ever-increasing desperation for visibility against the cultural backdrop, that the content is more relevantContinue reading “YAWB: Canniballs!”
YAWB: Swanky
The only reason any of us decide to write is to get into swanky literary parties, right? Well, this week I attended my first swanky* literary** party***, organised by Miranda Miller, a member of the Society of Authors. Around ten writers turned up, all at different stages in their career. It’s always fascinating to swap storiesContinue reading “YAWB: Swanky”
Write Your Audience
A few weeks ago I subbed a story to Woodbridge Press with the hope of having it accepted for their forthcoming Explorations anthology (sidenote: the anthology will be out on 2nd September, and is going to be awesome – buy it!). My story, entitled A Cosmic Joke, was as pretentious as pretentious can be –Continue reading “Write Your Audience”
Book Review: Emergence by Nick M. Lloyd
Emergence is the debut novel by British SF novelist Nick M Lloyd. There are two main settings in which events take place: firstly Earth, through the central human characters of journalist with a grudge Louise, her physicist hubby Jeff Harding, their other physicist pal Mike, and Jack Bullage, a shady businessman, car-crash survivor and theContinue reading “Book Review: Emergence by Nick M. Lloyd”
The Talent and The Technique
Writing can be a Sisyphean task for the amateur. All those drafts, all that effort, only for your damn manuscript to fall back down to the bottom of the valley. I wonder if Sisyphus used to think: “ok, next time I’ll definitely be finished.” If so, he was as foolish as he was strong. InkeepingContinue reading “The Talent and The Technique”
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