Historical Fiction and Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Book Reviews and ruminations on life
1
Mar
The magic and wonder of libraries This is a guest post I did recently that I wanted to repeat here. When I was kindly invited to do a guest post here the subject that was suggested was libraries and what impact they have had on me. At first I thought – heck what on earth […]
Tags: libraries
15
Feb
The challenges of writing fiction involving Time Travel (This first appeared as a guest post on Once Upon a Bookcase) Of the various genres of fiction, the writing of Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels brings with it their own unique challenges. Writing any fiction shares a number of common elements which apply equally to this genre […]
Tags: Fiction Writing, How to write time travel novels, Plotting Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel
11
Feb
This is a guest post I did on Helen Hollick’s Blog about how to organise a Virtual Book Tour Please welcome my guest Richard Denning Today Richard Denning, who has self published Tomorrow’s Guardian via his own Mercia Books, is a guest. He has organised his own Virtual Book tour or Blog Tour and I […]
7
Feb
The defeat that shook the Victorian World The Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 started with a great defeat for the British invaders. On the 22nd January 20,000 Zulu’s overwhelmed a force of 1800 British and allies on the plain beneath the mountain of Isandlwana and destroyed it. An entire battalion of British Infantry was wiped out […]
Tags: Isandlwana, Tomorrow's Guardian, zulus
30
Jan
Here I read the first few pages of Tomorrow’s Guardian. Hope you enjoy. Find out more here: http://www.richarddenning.co.uk/tomguard.html
25
Jan
To celebrate the launch of the new Paperback edition of Tomorrow’s Guardian I have organised a blog tour. From January 28th until March 17th there will be a series of Guest Posts, interviews and reviews on these sites. Here I give you some idea of what to expect from each post. 28th January Magicbeanreview Review and Q+A […]
15
Jan
Book review of Historical Fantasy Pirate Code by Helen Hollick We first met Jesamiah Acorne in the superb first novel in this series – Sea Witch (Sea Witch Series). Jesamiah just wants to marry Tiola and live out his years on his beloved ship but fate has other things in store. To begin with Tiola’s […]
Tags: Historical Fiction, Pirate code, Pirates, Sea Witch
9
Jan
How to self publish your own e-books – a brief over view. In many ways 2011 is the year when e-books will come of age. Last year saw record sales of Kindles and Ipads and other readers and also saw e-books outstrip hardbacks on Amazon.com. Sales in the UK are not yet at the same […]
Tags: e-books, ibook, Kindle, Selfpublishing
27
Dec
A self help guide to publishing your e-book on the World’s biggest bookstore. A few days before Christmas 2010 I put my first two e-books on Amazon Kindle. As I have been asked how you go about doing that I thought I would do a short “How To” guide. E-books sales are rapidly expanding. Sales […]
Tags: Amazon, e-books, Kindle, Selfpublishing
11
Dec
Some 18 months ago I started on the journey of learning a little about polishing a fiction manuscript. I had been writing fiction for 10 years and not getting that far with interest from agents or publishers and so decided to involve a Literary Consultancy. Now these organisations, for those who do not know, will […]
Tags: Editing Fiction