Historical Fiction and Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Book Reviews and ruminations on life
25
Sep
It has been a while since I wrote an article on e-book conversion to Amazon Kindle and I decided to do another one having had a few questions on this subject. First up you will need an account on Kindle Direct Publishing so go set one up. There is another article here about that. The […]
Tags: ebooks, Kindle, self publishing
21
Sep
I have two significant reasons for being thankful to Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946). Firstly of course he was a writer who came out with a number of books of science fiction which along with his near contemporary,Jules Verne had influence on the evolution of the genre in the twentieth century. Secondly, […]
Tags: HG Wells, Time Travel
15
Sep
Or how to get a board game published Why ask me? I run UK Games Expo – the UK’s largest non electronic multi format hobby game convention. By this I mean we have board games, card games, roleplaying games by a multitude of games companies in an event over 3 days that attracts 6000+ people. […]
Tags: Board Games
13
Sep
I am a self published writer OR possibly you could describe me as an Indie because I have my own publishing house, Mercia Books. I have already blogged about how to self publish and how I went about doing it. What I wanted to touch on in this article was what I feel is critical […]
Tags: self publishing
6
Sep
I have always been fascinated by historical settings but at the same time I adored a good fantasy book. So, in my reading, I have devoured the Lord of The Rings, the Disc World Novels and a good chunk of fantasy published in the last thirty or so years. I have also read a lot […]
Tags: Historical Fantasy
5
Sep
Wednesday 5th September – Hope at Last! Home; and whereas I expected to have seen our house on fire, it being now about seven o’clock, it was not. But to the fyre, and there find greater hopes than I expected; for my confidence of finding our Office on fire was such, that I durst not […]
4
Sep
Tuesday 4th September – The Fire at full fury! Now begins the practice of blowing up of houses in Tower-streete, those next the Tower, which at first did frighten people more than anything, but it stopped the fire where it was done, it bringing down the houses to the ground in the same places they […]
Tags: GRe, The Great Fire of London 1666
3
Sep
About four o’clock in the morning, my Lady Batten sent me a cart to carry away all my money, and plate, and best things, to Sir W. Riders at Bednall-greene. Which I did riding myself in my night-gowne in the cart; and, Lord! to see how the streets and the highways are crowded with people […]
2
Sep
Here by ye permission of heaven, hell broke loose upon this Protestant city. Original Engraving on the Great Fire Mounment Jane called up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. So I rose, and slipped on my night-gown and went to her window, and thought […]