House of Baard
As Far As Souls Go is now available for pre-order. Do the clicky thing here if you want in on that. I’ll admit… Not as exciting as I thought. Still pretty cool, though, but I’m more looking forward to the paperback. A tangible book on the shelf just looks cool, you know? Still, it’s alive!This …
I’ve spent the last three days going over the manuscript that was returned to me by the proofreader. I had sent it to her specifically for spelling mistakes and punctuation, which is not my strong point. She did a reasonable job for the most part, though I didn’t agree with all of her suggestions. Some of …
Humor me and imagine this: You’ve just hauled your overpacked suitcase down a concrete flight of stairs, through a tiled hallway that vaguely smells of urine, up another set of the same concrete stairs because the elevator had a sign that said, “Good luck, disabled people!”, and finally onto the platform of the station nearest …
Anyone who tells you writing the story is the hard part is full of shit. It’s a matter of sculpting a pile of letters into words and putting those words in an order that describes the movie you’re watching in your head. The hard part is dealing with all the shit that happens after you …
I thought I was pretty up to date on the whole doing-a-book-thing, so I was pretty confident going forward with the cover job. I dabble in graphics myself, so I was as complete as possible in providing information for the artist to work with. Confident that I had done my part, I closed my laptop …
Cover for As Far As Souls Go is done, as I’m sure you’ve noticed.You know the saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, right? Well, I’m here to tell you it’s bollocks. It’s the absolute first thing somebody does. If a cover doesn’t pop out, people aren’t even going to pick up the book …