Clunky title. Kind of like the dull, monstrous bang of a car thundering into another car, stopping dead. Today is the 23rd anniversary of that sound times three. Twenty-third. That’s an unreal number. It seems absurd that I’d still be suffering from a brain injury, that the number of my years as an adult with…
Tag: Aban’s Accension
Smashwords Winter/Summer Sale = Free Ebooks
“At one minute past midnight Pacific time on March 2, the special Smashwords Read an Ebook Week promotion catalogue goes live on the Smashwords home page. Readers can browse the catalogue and search by coupon code levels and categories. At the stroke of midnight Pacific time at the end of the day on March 8,…
Aban’s Accension on Wattpad
Accension, not ascension. Yes, I know how to spell! Accension: The action of kindling or the state of being kindled. (From The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary) It is related to the verb “accend.” This is an old word, but it completely describes what is happening in this the second novel I wrote…
I’ve Joined Wattpad!
So I joined Wattpad. Um, what is Wattpad, you may ask. You mean aside from that thing Margaret Atwood was tweeting about last year that made no sense to me? Good question! It's where readers get free stories to read yes, free! and writers get to post their new, unpublished or published stuff for feedback,…
Announcement: Now Affiliated with Iguana Books
I’m pleased to announce that I’m now affiliated with Iguana Books and that they will be working with me on my next two novels. Writing is not so solitary! Greg Ioannou has been my editor since the day I walked into his Colborne Communications office with my in-progress manuscript for Lifeliner. This was in 1999,…
Receiving the Proof of Aban from Amazon CreateSpace
One of the nice perks of winning NaNoWriMo is that you get a free proof copy of your manuscript from Amazon’s CreateSpace. One of the downsides is you have only until the end of June to get it. I suddenly realised that last week. Eek! So I prepped my text, uploaded it, and after some…