…to everyone who has contributed to Audacious Author! I’m putting this site on hold for a bit while I focus on a new venture in digital publishing with Allan Guthrie. Some of you know about it, some of you don’t, but it’s gonna be I’m a relative newcomer [...] Continue reading THANK YOU… 
Very interesting piece by Mathew Ingram over at GigaOM yesterday: What if you could ask the author of a book a question while you were reading the book? That’s the kind of world Amazon wants to offer with its new @author feature, which the online bookstore launched on Wednesday with a group of writers including Susan Orlean and self-help guru [...] Continue reading The Age of Audacious (courtesy of Amazon) 
Watching Dragons’ Den the other night, I was struck by debut dragon Hilary Devey offering to put a team into a business along with her cash. A team! Something useful! The other dragons were quick to quash thoughts that they might do the same and the poor spud doing the pitching promptly blew it with Bannatyne, who threw his toys [...] Continue reading Ask not what you can do for your publisher… 
I was at an open mic gig last night and one of the performers did the audacious thing. During his set, he mentioned his self-pubbed CD between every song, told us how much it has cost him to make, and played the 5 track in sequence. He even told us which song he was most proud of. Then, later, when [...] Continue reading Audacity + 
Funny how the little things can set you off on one. Yesterday, I was filling out a new company creation form. It called for my occupation and I put company director (cos I am). But my business partner put writer. Which got me thinking… I graduated with a degree in English Literature and Philosophy. This equipped me for precisely bugger [...] Continue reading Occupation: writer 
I’ve had three (three!) conversations recently with people who have written or are currently writing autobiographical, confessional ‘fiction’. Not including myself, with whom I’ve had many similar conversations. Been there, done that, in 75,000 words. Here, in part, is what my prospective agent had to say about the first draft of my novel: I do think you can write, there’s [...] Continue reading Close to the bone |
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