Author Archives: Drop John

I don’t know what you think about Nanowrimo but I find it useful. (Clarification: I don’t know who you are in the first place, dear reader. So don’t let my lack of knowledge of your preferences around periodic writing programs play too much of a part in your view of my books or me asContinueContinue reading “A little bit of Nanowrimo”

This is a post about the difference between a story being apparently ready in a series author’s head, and it being ‘uploadable’ ready and the work that’s needed to move from point A to point B even if you’re a ‘lite’ style author who’s not interested in beta readers and the usual publishing paraphernalia. So.ContinueContinue reading “The difference – An uploading story”

Well time really does fly when you set pre-orders on your prequels without taking into account the possibility that a whole heap of things can go wrong, go right, or take a lot longer than expected. Currently on a bit of a sprint to get Strange Allegiances up before the deadline tomorrow at Midnight. TheContinueContinue reading “Tempus Fugit, Amazon Preorders”

And now it’s here. Ice Age in Scarlet launches tomorrow with the release of Master In His Tomb, to be quickly followed by prequels (on KU) and the next in the main series (going wide). It feels good to have a book up on the shelf (my proofs for Master In His Tomb arrived aContinueContinue reading “It’s been a while coming”

With a nod to W.B. Yeats of course. Publication day approaches, and my need to blog increases. Having listened to my previous two randomly assigned recordings it occurs to me that now would be a good time to explain the basics of the Ice Age in Scarlet setting as otherwise the random entries make veryContinueContinue reading “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

A Kenneth Williams reference from Carry on Screaming, which seems appropriate given the borderline horror element of the series to date. Also because I couldn’t think of another intro to this blog. The series has made a few leaps and bounds towards publication since my last post, so rather than going further into the individualContinueContinue reading “Frying tonight”

7. Belle in Twilight A little bit of a pun in the title. This is a novel wherein a girl (who turns out to be a witch, and there’s a clear indication of her origins in the Witch Duology) living in the protected settlements around the ruins of Paris a generation or so from theContinueContinue reading “And then,”

The first part of this series of blogs dealt with the best books to read first to get the background to the Ice Age in Scarlet series. Those were Master in his Tomb (pre-order up soon…) and then the countdown prequels, helpfully numbered 5 through 1 and ending at the moment the first aftershocks ofContinueContinue reading “After the Prequels…”

And so we approach publication, through Draft 2 Digital as I can’t risk using Amazon due to some issues we’ve had with the Company’s KDP account caused by a false link generated by the algorithm which took a week or so and a twitterstorm to sort out. Not going through that again. I’ll blog onContinueContinue reading “I have a cover…”