The first glimpse of what I’m relying on the finish the second draft. This is the very cool ending I have in store for my characters.
Once this bit is done, the next job will be to post the synopsis right here at this little blog.
I am aware, by the way, that this is late on [...]

This novel has a lot of music running through it, virtually all of which is fictional, which means I have to write a lot of song lyrics. This is a song by the fictional Martin Orville Elliott – a thinly disguised amalgam of two of my favourite musicians. I’m hoping “spot the influence” will one [...]

I may have already intimated this, but the second draft is far more intensive than the first. The first skimmed over details and left big blank holes, made curious intellectual leaps without much justification, and was generally rough as bags, as the saying goes. A lot of what I’ve been doing in the last month [...]

While I continue to slave away at the second draft (proving slightly more intensive than the first, strangely), I have taken this story on its first critical step away from the jumble in my head and into the real world. The fifty page extract is now in the hands of an agent who, I know, [...]